Art of the Problem | What is a computer? (the history covering Leibniz, Babbage & Lovelace) @ArtOfTheProblem | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 9 hours ago
the origin and history of computers from Gottfried Leibniz's dreams of mechanizing mental work through Charles Babbage's analytic engine. It ends with Ada Lovelace's famous insights about computer programming...ushering a new era of Computer Science which explodes in the 20th Century.

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To learn more about Lovelace check out this article: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace