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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 / Sydney Padua
Author Padua, Sydney
Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]

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Descript 315 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Note "The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Jacket
"The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Jacket
Content Innehåll: 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
Note 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 Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Lovelace, Ada King, Countess of, 1815-1852 -- Fiction
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 -- Comic books, strips, etc
Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 -- Fiction
Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Comic books, strips, etc
Calculators -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Comic books, strips, etc
Computers -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc
Computers -- History -- Humor
Imaginary histories
Tecknade serier: humor och satir
Tecknade serier: engelska
Tecknade serier: historiska skildringar
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Tecknade serier
Classmark 741.5/942
He.05
ISBN/ISSN 9780307908278
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