Ada Lovelace's Notes Published
August 1843
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, published her translation of an Italian article on Babbage's Analytical Engine, appending notes three times the length of the original. Note G contained an algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers - the first computer program ever written, for a machine that would never be built in her lifetime.
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Also in 1843 (3 other events on record)
- Ether Anesthesia Glimpsed · North America · Science
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.