{The statue is "standing on a plinth engraved with her name" but we cannot confirm that.}
Ada Lovelace
The statue is based on the .
The punch cards that we handled many moons ago were not connected to each other. They were kept together with elastic bands and you made sure they were coded with a sequence number so that a dropped stack was merely a pain and not a disaster. The ones shown here are concertinaed, like computer print-out paper (another bygone). At we found an image of "Babbage's data cards" that look very similar to the ones here, even down to the tape that is threaded through them, holding them together. Changing a card must have involved some embroidery.
The PSSA source informs that the cards in the sculpture are coded with two puzzles "contributed by a team of international scientists". Alternatively the artists that: "The cards will contain a hidden poem in the dots that can be decoded by keen observers". Either way, good images of the cards would be essential to even begin the decoding process. That last link has some "work in progress photos" which initially we thought may help but the cards there have a different, and simpler, pattern so we think they do not show the final coded message. Let us know if you make anything of it.
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For another coded message in a memorial see the GCHQ plaque.
Site: Ada Lovelace statue (1 memorial)
SW1, Horseferry Road, Millbank Quarter / Ergon House
This statue in on the north-east corner of Horseferry Road and Dean Bradley Street. We are grateful to for bringing it to our attention (7 floors up - we don't know how we missed it).
Following engagement with Westminster Council the developers chose "Ada Lovelace as the subject for the sculpture as a direct response to Charles Sergeant Jagger’s scientific and technological figures on the adjacent 9 Millbank and the site’s former use as an electricity works."
The fine 1907 was demolished to make way for this typically dull 2020s 'Millbank Quarter' (also known as Ergon House).
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