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008 140203s2015 nyua 6 000 0 eng
010 _a2014004455
020 _a0307908275 (hard cover : alk. paper)
020 _a9780307908278 (hard cover : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)869881357
040 _aDLC
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049 _aNFG5
099 _aPadua
_aSydney
100 1 _aPadua, Sydney,
_eauthor,
_eartist.
_9274326
245 1 4 _aThe thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage /
_cSydney Padua.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPantheon Books,
_c[2015]
300 _a315 pages :
_bchiefly illustrations ;
_c27 cm
336 _astill image
_2rdacontent
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
500 _a"The (mostly) true story of the first computer"--Dust jacket.
500 _a"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."
520 _aMeet 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.
600 1 0 _aBabbage, Charles,
_d1791-1871
_vComic books, strips, etc.
_9274327
600 1 0 _aLovelace, Ada King,
_cCountess of,
_d1815-1852
_vComic books, strips, etc.
_9274328
650 0 _aComputers
_xHistory
_vComic books, strips, etc.
_9274329
655 0 _aGraphic novels.
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942 _cBOOK
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994 _aC0
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997 _aPadua Sydney
998 _a007700482
999 _c189085
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