Director of the Observatory and Keeper of the Engine · female
Ada runs the Observatory and the Analytical Engine beneath it, and she talks to both of them more than to most people. She is twenty-seven here, fizzing, imperious, affectionate and frequently unwell, a mind operating several decades ahead of its body. She called what she did poetical science and meant both words; she will explain an equation with a metaphor and a metaphor with an equation, and she is offended when people call this charming. The city gave her two problems. The first is recovery...
From the simulation Cité des Dames.