The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307908278 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780307908285 (e-book)
- Physical Description: 315 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "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. |
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Subject: | Lovelace, Ada King -- Countess of -- 1815-1852 -- Comic books, strips, etc Babbage, Charles -- 1791-1871 -- Comic books, strips, etc Computers -- History -- Comic books, strips, etc |
Genre: | Graphic novels. |
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- 5 of 5 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Nakusp Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Nakusp Public Library | GN 741.5 PAD (Text) | 35160000704743 | Adult Graphic | Volume hold | Available | - |
Salmo Public Library | GN 741.5 PAD (Text) | 35163000118146 | Adult Graphic Novel | Volume hold | Available | - |
Squamish Public Library | GN PAD (Text) | 33110003135082 | Graphic Novels - Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Gilbert Plains | 741.5942 Pad (Text) | 36781001081863 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | GN F PADU (Text) | 3326000350054 | Graphic Novels | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Presents an alternate history in which Charles Babbage and Ada, Countess of Lovelace, build the "Difference Engine" and use it to explore the wilder realms of mathematics and fight crime for the sake of both London and science. - Random House, Inc.
A debut graphic biography that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures.
Meet Victorian Londonâs 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 Babbageâs 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 crimeâfor 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 Babbageâs 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. - Random House, Inc.
THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE . . . in which Sydney Padua transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures.
Meet Victorian Londonâs 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 Babbageâs 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 crimeâfor 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 Babbageâs 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.)Â