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Author:

Padua, Sydney, artist. artist.

Title:

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 ; embellished with portraits and scientifick diagrams / Sydney Padua.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Pantheon Books,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

315 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Lovelace, Ada King,--Countess of,--1815-1852--Comic books, strips, etc.
Babbage, Charles,--1791-1871--Comic books, strips, etc.
Computers--History--Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novel.

Notes:

"The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Cover.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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...

ISBN:

0307908275
9780307908278

LCCN:

2014004455

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