Ada Lovelace Wrote the 1st Algorithm in 1843. Nobody Believed Her For a Century.

Ada Lovelace published a program for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine in 1843 -- a machine that was never built. Alan Turing proved in 1936 that computation was a precisely defined mathematical concept, built a codebreaking machine at Bletchley Park, and was prosecuted by the British government in 1952 for being gay. The ENIAC team of programmers was six women whose work was classified and uncredited for decades. The transistor replaced the vacuum tube, the microprocessor put the computer on a chip, and then, in 2012, a neural network trained on graphics cards changed everything. This is the computing history your textbook left out. Watch the next video in the series: the open questions in modern science and what the history of discovery tells us about how to approach them. ▶ Watch next: CRISPR: The Bacteria Trick That Became the Most Powerful Tool in Biology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSfTqfwHKsM 📺 Full playlist: The Great Discoveries: How Science Built the Modern World https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlIAFxS2964-3v5fFwk4loCBPCYUW-8kY Chapters: 0:00 Scene 1 5:25 Scene 2 10:02 Scene 3 14:29 Scene 4 19:02 Scene 5 23:25 Scene 6 27:48 Scene 7 32:52 Quiz Time 35:46 Key Takeaways #explained #learn #2026 --- Disclosure The avatars and voices in this video are AI-generated. All content -- research, scripts, lesson design, and the custom video engine -- is created by a CISSP, CISM, and PMP certified professional with a Master's in Project Management, a B.S. in Information Technology, and a Doctorate in Business Administration in progress. This channel exists to make learning accessible and straightforward. Educational history-of-science series. This channel does not represent any university, research institution, or scientific body. The series presents the historical record of how scientific ideas were discovered, contested, and refined — including the mistakes, the politics, and the people who paid for being right too early. Where science and other domains intersect (religion, ethics, public policy), the series presents the arguments without endorsing a position.