Bibliograph

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua

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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Nature of contents

comics graphic novelsdictionaries

Oclc number

906827913

Responsibility statement

Sydney Padua

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..

Table Of 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

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