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Babbage & Lovelace
The Victorian computer that was never finished: Babbage's Difference and Analytical Engines, Lovelace's 1843 Notes with the first published algorithm and her vision of general-purpose computing, and the 1991 rebuild that proved it worked.
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Key idea
Prereqs: none. Next: Turing; Grace Hopper. Sources: Ada Lovelace, 'Notes' on Menabrea's paper (1843); Doron Swade, *The Difference Engine* (2001); Computer History Museum; Gresham College.Next: 1. Timeline