# Trinity to commission sculpture of Ada Lovelace for display in the Old Library

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**Trinity College Dublin**is to commission four new sculptures – all representing women scholars – for display in the Long Room of the Old Library.

The scientist **Rosalind Franklin**, the folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder **Augusta Gregory**, the mathematician **Ada Lovelace** and the writer and pioneering women’s rights advocate **Mary Wollstonecraft** have been chosen from a list of more than 500 suggestions.

Ada Lovelace

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was the author of an 1843 monograph on Charles Babbage’s design for the first analytical engine (general-purpose computer). To her translation of Menabrea’s report of a presentation made by Babbage in Turin she added her famous *Notes*, highlighting the potential and flexibility of an analytical engine compared to a calculator. These *Notes* included an algorithm for computing Bernouilli numbers and presaged computer-generated music, a century before Alan Turing proved that such achievements required properties now intrinsic to computers, which Babbage’s design possessed. Ada Lovelace’s unique contribution was to publish the first recognition of the capacity of a computer to make logical deductions about both numerical and non-numerical objects.

You can [read about the new sculptures here](https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/trinity-to-commission-four-new-sculptures-of-women-for-display-in-old-library/).