Four years ago, the Queen Elizabeth II posted her first tweet from the Science Museum and it made headlines! Today, four years after that epoch-making tweet, the Queen has made her first Instagram and from the same location too – the Science Museum.
The Queen shared a photo of a letter written to her great-great-grandfather, Prince Albert. She accompanied the picture with a long caption about the significance of the letter and related it to the insight gained from her visit to the Museum.
She wrote: “Today, as I visit the Science Museum I was interested to discover a letter from the Royal Archives, written in 1843 to my great-great-grandfather Prince Albert.
“Charles Babbage, credited as the world’s first computer pioneer, designed the ‘Difference Engine’, of which Prince Albert had the opportunity to see a prototype in July 1843.”
In the letter, Babbage told Queen Victoria and Prince Albert about his invention the ‘Analytical Engine’ upon which the first computer programmes were created by Ada Lovelace, a daughter of Lord Byron.”
“Today, I had the pleasure of learning about children’s computer coding initiatives and it seems fitting to me that I publish this Instagram post, at the Science Museum which has long championed technology, innovation and inspired the next generation of inventors. Elizabeth R.”
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