As a teenager, she met a man by the name of Charles Babbage. Charles was an inventor and had been working on a machine that would help people solve Math problems. Charles explained his machine to Ada and told her about all the things he hoped it would do. Ada was one of the few people who thought that Babbage’s invention might be used in math, science, and the arts.
But Charles had a problem. He had a difficult time trying to explain to other people how his “computer engine” worked