Lady ADA Lovelace Assisting in Babbage's work was Lady Ada
Lovelace, a brilliant mathematician and
daughter of Lord Byron. She helped him to draw
up plans for his machine as well as wrote
programs to run it. She is thus considered to
be the first programmer. One programming
language ADA is named in her honor.
Tabulating Machine
The next big step towards the development of computers
the USA. Dr. Herman Hollerith adopted Jacquard's method
information on cards, to process the 1880-90 censuses in
The census information was codified and punched on car
was later easily read by machines. These machines con
recognize the pattern of holes on the cards and sort them ou​