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Hacker News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
In an era when the Enlightenment’s orderly vision of the natural world began to unravel, Anna Atkins produced the world’s first photography book: a collection of cyanotypes, created across a decade beginning in 1843, that captured algal forms in startling blue-and-white silhouettes.
Dataconomy
JULY 24, 2023
In 1843, Lovelace wrote an algorithm for the Analytical Engine, a theoretical computer that was designed by Charles Babbage. Each binary digit represents a single instruction that the computer’s central processing unit (CPU) can understand. One of the first people to program in machine language was Ada Lovelace.
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