A review by emma_zimmerman
Ada's Algorithm: How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age by James Essinger

3.0

I liked how detailed he was about Ada's life. He included quotes from letters she had written and letters that were written to her. I think it adds a lot of depth to her and what we know about her. I will say, I did disagree slightly with some points he made. What he extracted from letters is not what I saw.
He also spent a lot of time talking about Babbage and the engines he was designing and creating. While good to know, I would have liked more about Ada's thoughts on those machines. From what I understand about the author and how the book was written, he seems more interesting in the machine than the inventor. And for a book about an inventor, it doesn't fully work.