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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
A debut graphic biography that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series...
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A debut graphic biography that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures.
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, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible. With black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Author: Sydney Padua
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780307908278
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2014 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2015
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2015
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 40
Library Journal 03/15/2015 pg. 90
Discover 05/01/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 06/07/2015 pg. 27
Shelf Awareness 06/09/2015
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2015
Library Journal 09/15/2014
About the Author
SYDNEY PADUA is an animator and visual effects artist, usually employed in making giant monsters appear to be attacking people for the movies. She started drawing comics by accident and is still trying to figure out how to stop. Originally from the Canadian prairie, she now lives in London with her husband and far too many books. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is her first book.
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, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible. With black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Author: Sydney Padua
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 04/21/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780307908278
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/15/2014 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 01/26/2015
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2015
Booklist 03/01/2015 pg. 40
Library Journal 03/15/2015 pg. 90
Discover 05/01/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 06/07/2015 pg. 27
Shelf Awareness 06/09/2015
Shelf Awareness 12/11/2015
Library Journal 09/15/2014
About the Author
SYDNEY PADUA is an animator and visual effects artist, usually employed in making giant monsters appear to be attacking people for the movies. She started drawing comics by accident and is still trying to figure out how to stop. Originally from the Canadian prairie, she now lives in London with her husband and far too many books. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is her first book.
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