Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 1815 – 1852), best known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician, translator, and writer. The only child of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Lady Anne Byron, she was married to William King-Noel and had numerous children, including Annabella and Byron.
Biography[]
Early life[]
In her childhood years, Ada kept on being sick with debilitating illnesses, which led her health's deterioration. However, it never impeded her on her education and work ethic. At some point, Ada was introduced to a young boy named Simeon Price, a gifted child from Ealing. However, as Lady Byron educated the boy, Ada and Simeon soon became close and trusted friends. However, Ada saw Simeon cast out as his loyalty to her costed him an education from her mother. After losing Price as a friend, she was dealt further personal issues, with the death and shame of her father and his immoral actions.[1] In her twenties, she got married to William King-Noel and within two years, she gave birth to both Annabella and Byron.[2]
Later life[]
Within her work, Ada corresponded with multiple scientific minds and one of her collaborations came to be with a mysterious figure called the "Magus." However, from their letters, Ada discovered that their work was leading to a deadly invention and ceased communication with the Magus.[1] In 1851, Ada attended the Great Exhibition and saw the act of Mazeppa being performed by the Aurora Equestrian Troupe's acrobat Pierrette Arnaud as its lead. However, Ada was soon surrounded by four thugs and almost kidnapped, but was luckily saved by Arnaud.[3]
Being led by Arnaud, Ada was guarded and arrived to her home safely.[3] From this event, the countess and Arnaud began to develop a friendship within the two years. This friendship led Arnaud to attend many social gatherings with many artistic and scientific minds, hosted by Ada. However, Ada's health began to deteriorate as she soon became bed-ridden. As Arnaud visited her, Ada ultimately told about her work and about the time spent with the Magus. Asking a favor, Ada gave Pierrette her notes and told her to find Simeon Price, who was thought to be dead but actually deserted his post.[1]
Death and legacy[]
At the end of 1852, she died from her illness,[4] and left her work in the notes she gave to Arnaud. Her notes were soon entrusted to Arnaud and Price, who tried to decipher them and keep them away from both the Magus and Templars' hands.[5][6][7][8] From a slight look, Arnaud was able to configure a piece of her notes to be about a possible artifact being in Bath.[8]
However, her workbook was an item of interest for the Templars and their work on creating the Engine of History, especially for the Austrian Templar Countess Konstanze von Visler.[9][10] After learning it was buried with Elizabeth Siddal,[11][12] the Templars had Charles Augustus Howell convince Dante to exhume Siddal and then they took the workbook from Howell.[13]
From Konstanze's readings, she managed to use one of Ada's prediction tables as a basis for the Engine[10][9] and even temporarily defected to learn the Assassins' methods and ideals for the table.[14][15] After betraying them[16] and rejoining the Templars,[17], the Templars enacted their first test by trapping the Assassins to blow up the Eiffel Tower and making them culprits of a bombing.[18]
Fortunately, from Pierrette's knowledge of Ada's workbook, she realized the Templars' plans and had informed Spider Wallin,[10] who told Simeon of the Templars' plans. In the last minutes of the bombing, Simeon and Spider managed to tell their fellow Assassins to stop the explosion and thus the Templars' master plan.[19]
Behind the scenes[]
Ada was known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical calculator, and she is often regarded as the first computer programmer. Additionally, Ada's cause of death was the result of uterine cancer.[2]
Appearances[]
- Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy
- Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot (mentioned only)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
Ada Lovelace on Wikipedia
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 1
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 4
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 10
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 11
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 23
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 25
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 19
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 31
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Magus Conspiracy – Chapter 28
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 9
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 10
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 21
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 23
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 24
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 26
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 29
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: The Engine of History – The Resurrection Plot – Chapter 32