Bibliograph

The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua

Type

Label

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 novels

Oclc number

869881357

Responsibility statement

Sydney Padua

Summary

Charles Babbage was the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, was a peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, but sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. The story 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

Target audience

adult

Classification