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Haha, the horse race gambling predictions is so out there and seriously cracks me up because we constantly fight spammers who post gambling content on DEV! Please tell me Ada wouldn't have been a casino spammer... 😆 (Kidding, of course!)
But yeah, there was another Ada Lovelace + horse fact in that article that was also super amusing:
At the age of 12, Lovelace conceptualized a flying machine.
After studying the anatomy of birds and the suitability of various materials, the young girl illustrated plans to construct a winged flying apparatus before moving on to think about powered flight. “I have got a scheme,” she wrote to her mother, “to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steamengine in the inside so contrived as to move an immense pair of wings, fixed on the outside of the horse, in such a manner as to carry it up into the air while a person sits on its back.”
It sounds bizarre and so impractical, but I'm in love with this idea, haha!
The steam engine powered winged horse is awesomely crazy (in a good way), and perhaps an example of what she had in mind by poetical science. Although there are videos on youtube of nearly as bizarre contraptions people actually built in early 1900s in early flying attempts.
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Haha, the horse race gambling predictions is so out there and seriously cracks me up because we constantly fight spammers who post gambling content on DEV! Please tell me Ada wouldn't have been a casino spammer... 😆 (Kidding, of course!)
But yeah, there was another Ada Lovelace + horse fact in that article that was also super amusing:
It sounds bizarre and so impractical, but I'm in love with this idea, haha!
The steam engine powered winged horse is awesomely crazy (in a good way), and perhaps an example of what she had in mind by poetical science. Although there are videos on youtube of nearly as bizarre contraptions people actually built in early 1900s in early flying attempts.