ON THIS DAY IN OCCULT HISTORY June 14 Ada Lovelace: The Enchantress & the Engine (Affiliate disclosure: Some links on this blog may earn us a small commission at no cost to you. Every bit helps keep the lantern lit.) On June 14, 1822, Charles Babbage presented a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the Application of Machinery to the Computation of Astronomical and Mathematical Tables,” proposing a mechanical engine that could calculate and print numerical tables, eliminating human error entirely. The Difference Engine was born on paper. A special from the first issue of Modern Occultist , here is the story of Babbage, Ada Lovelace, the how their partnership led to the modern computer… Origins of a Mind on Fire Before the age of silicon and supercomputers, before neural nets whispered predictions and apps tracked every twitch of our waking hours, there was a woman seated at a writing desk in Victorian England, composing a vision...