Question 1
Amanda - What events in your life inspired you to become a scientist?
Ada Lovelace – Well as a child my mother studied in mathematics. She wanted me to be more widespread like my father so she had me study math and science. I caught on to the concept of them very quickly.
Question 2
Amanda – What role did mentors play in helping you develop talents and skills?
Ada Lovelace – I had multiple tutors when I was younger. My tutors were William Frend, William King and Mary Somerville. They played a huge role in helping me to further to where I am. My mother also encouraged me as I was growing up.
Question 3
Amanda – What knowledge was there when you entered the science field?
Ada Lovelace – When I first started there wasn’t much that anyone had known about science and technology. Everyone before had always said things about what they thought. But as time has gone by we have realized that you have to actually test your idea to know that it is true. We have started testing and experimenting so that we know the things are true and not something that we just came up with out of no where. When I first started computers were just being figured out. We didn’t really know much about them.
Question 4
Amanda – What were some of your major accomplishments?
Ada Lovelace - As a scientist I have furthered my education and others about science and technology. We were able to come up with software that helps the computers be able to function more easily. The software that we scientists as a team have come up with is able to allow people to communicate with others in a short amount of time.
Question 5
Amanda – What were some of your limitations as a scientist?
Ada Lovelace - When I first began science and technology was at its start. There was not much information for us to further our inventions. As a scientist I had to do many experiments to figure out the information that I needed. I went through many experiments that didn’t work. But I looked at them as furthering my education about computers. This came as a limitation to me but I was able to learn more.
Question 6
Amanda – What major events were taking place while you were beginning in the science industry?
Ada Lovelace - As I was majoring in my career there were many events taking place. The railroad was just being invented as I was starting. This helped make transportation faster and easier to get supplies and people around. Jacksonian Democrats were taking place. They were splitting into two groups as time went on.
Question 7
Amanda - What artists and musicians were working around the time period with you?
Ada Lovelace – As I was in my career, there were many other experiments taking place. Louis Braille was experimenting with ways for the blind to be able to write. He created Braille, which helps the blind to be able to communicate. Also, Henry Bell was experimenting with creating a way to improve transportation. He created the steamboat.
Question 8
Amanda- Did you have to be in any societies or academies as a beginning scientist?
Ada Lovelace – When I was beginning as a scientist there wasn’t really anything that you had to do or join. It was a bit harder for me because I am a female but once I got to experimenting and people saw what I was coming up with they accepted me.
Question 9
Amanda – How did the gender roles differ in society?
Ada Lovelace – The gender roles during this time period were strict but not too strict. The women were supposed to stay at home and work. When I started I wasn’t married and didn’t have kids so I really didn’t have anyone that I had to “obey”.
Question 10
Amanda – How did the class roles differ during this time?
Ada Lovelace – In this time period, I was considered upper class. My father was wealthy so I was classified as being wealthy as well as him. But the society also had the lower and middle class as well as the upper class.
Sourses that I used to find my information:
http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/sciencemath1/a/bio_lovelace.htm
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/lovelace.htm
http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/lovelace.html
Picture 1
This is a picture of Ada Lovelace
Picture 2
This is a picture of a computer in which Ada Lovelace helped invent software for.
Picture 3
This is a picture of software that Ada helped improve
Picture 5
This is a picture of Ada Lovelace's dad, Lord Byron.
Picture 4
This is a picture of London. This is where Ada Lovelace was born and lived.
Our creative process was sort of the same, you being a female inventor and me being an African-American composer. We probably had to suffer about the same amount because women didn't really have rights and neither did blacks. I think your work as an inventor is GREAT! Women aren't known for anything except being a housewife and I think it's great you are setting an example. Although, our economic issues were not exactly the same. You come from a family of wealth and I was lower class.
ReplyDeleteHi Ada! I think it's amazing that you were so successful as a female scientist in your time period! Haha, we have the gender thing in common. Stupid men *rolls eyes* Always thinking they're the best!!
ReplyDeleteSo, how did being female effect your work, do you think? Was there much opposition to your work because you your gender?
It seems like we were in the same kind of situation as far as the level of knowledge known about our area of occupation. You experimented in an effort to find out more about science and I took photographs in order to help other people realize what was going on behind the scenes of factories and other places of industrial work. It is great that you were able to break through the social barriers and do what you wanted to do, not what was expected of you. I didnt experience any restrictions based on my gender since I am a male, but I was looked down on quite a bit because of my style of photography.
ReplyDeleteYour work really helped develop a more efficient software that has evolved into what we use today.
Honestly Ada our experiences were extremely different.I do,however,congradulate you on overcoming your limitations,just as i did.One thing that i believe we do have in common about our "creative process"was that we both had more than enough mentors that kept us going and got us to where we are today.Altough we both had trouble being accepted into to field of work we chose i believe you did an excellent job,It was a bit harder for you because you are a female but once you got to experimenting and people saw what you were coming up with they accepted you.
ReplyDeleteIt didnt take you as long as i did to get accepted however but that was because i guess in modern terms you can call my art piece smut well just sort of disturbing but it reflected my self and how i felt at the time about many things.There are many people out there working just as hard as you and I,I think we should all get together and talk about the things that made us get into the field of work ,or whatever you want to call,we are in.Dont you think the the things going on around us greatly influence our work?It does to me sometimes bad but sometimes also very well ,it gives me a good idea of what to create athough my art works are always revolved around lust ,love and death it can set an extremaly good looking background.