The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer (Pantheon Graphic Library)

by Sydney Padua

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0307908275
  • ISBN13 9780307908278
  • Publish Date 21 April 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Pantheon
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