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Elizabeth Fry
1844 - Ramsgate
At Ramsgate, where the sea presses against the walls, a prison reformer writes what the committees and charities never saw.
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Kremlin office, Moscow · 1840 CE to 1849 CE
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Britain and Ireland
Ada Lovelace publishes her Notes on the Analytical Engine
1843 · London, England
London becomes a place where calculation stops meaning arithmetic alone and begins to imply an entirely different machine-age future.
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Elizabeth Fry
1844 - Ramsgate
At Ramsgate, where the sea presses against the walls, a prison reformer writes what the committees and charities never saw.
- 1849