Victorian Computers!

Hello, fellow heathens! Today, we are going to chat about computers and programmers! Specifically, Ada Lovelace, Charles Babbage and the Analytical Engine! Sometime during the mid-19 century, Charles Cabbage constructed, with the help of Ada Lovelace, the Analytical Engine. Ada said this about the Engine: "Mr. Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each containing twenty figures, in three minutes". In comparison, a modern computer could do that in a millionth of a second. Ada's contribution to the project was the algorithm for the Engine, a sequence the Engine needed to function. For that, she is credited to be the world's first programmer. But the Analytical Engine was never finished, because of a dispute with Cabbage and a colleague, and lack of funds.