The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : with interesting & curious anecdotes of celebrated and distinguished characters fully illustrating a variety of instructive and amusing scenes ; as performed within and without the remarkable difference engine / Sydney Padua.

Title
  1. The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage : with interesting & curious anecdotes of celebrated and distinguished characters fully illustrating a variety of instructive and amusing scenes ; as performed within and without the remarkable difference engine / Sydney Padua.
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  1. New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
  2. ©2015
Author
  1. Padua, Sydney

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Description
  1. 315 pages : chiefly illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
  1. Meet Victorian London's most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage's plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime -- for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered computer.
Subject
  1. Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 > Comic books, strips, etc
  2. Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 > Fiction
  3. Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 > Comic books, strips, etc
  4. Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 > Fiction
  5. Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
  6. Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852
  7. Lovelace, Ada King, 1815-1852
  8. Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
  9. 1800-1899
  10. Mathematicians > Great Britain > Biography > Comic books, strips, etc
  11. Calculators > Great Britain > History > 19th century > Comic books, strips, etc
  12. Computers > History > Comic books, strips, etc
  13. Computers > History > Humor
  14. Imaginary histories
  15. Mathématiciens > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies > Bandes dessinées
  16. Calculatrices > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle > Bandes dessinées
  17. Ordinateurs > Histoire > Bandes dessinées
  18. Ordinateurs > Histoire > Humour
  19. Histoire-fiction
  20. Calculators
  21. Computers
  22. Mathematicians
  23. Mathematicians > Comic books, strips, etc
  24. Great Britain
Genre/Form
  1. Graphic novels
  2. Biography.
  3. Alternative histories (Fiction)
  4. Humor
  5. Fiction
  6. Comics (Graphic works)
  7. History
  8. Comic books, strips, etc.
  9. Tecknade serier.
Contents
  1. Ada Lovelace: The secret origin! -- The pocket universe -- The person from Porlock -- Lovelace & Babbage vs. the client! -- Primary sources -- Lovelace and Babbage vs. the economic model! -- Luddites! -- User experience! -- Mr. Boole comes to tea -- Imaginary quantities -- Appendix I: Some amusing primary documents -- Appendix II: The analytical engine.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Jacket.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain