The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

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Call Number: Adult Graphic Novel / Padua, Sydney, Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Padua, Sydney
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Padua, Sydney	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Padua, Sydney	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / General / Padua, Sydney	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"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."
"The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Dust jacket.
Meet Victorian London{u2019}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{u2019}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{u2014}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{u2019}s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible.

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Amazing submitted by jbpuckett on July 11, 2019, 2:19pm This book is amazing. It is everything you ever wanted to know about Babbage and Lovelace, and in an alternate reality just for good measure. So perhaps it is everything about Lovelace we would have gotten if she hadn't been stymied by the traditions surrounding her.