![]() ![]() 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. Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage The True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua 3. ![]() Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Three contemporary female digital artists came to show their work. 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. Among the many events taking place that evening, Sydney Padua came to talk about her best-selling graphic novel, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and signed a copy for our very own Ada Lovelace drama character. 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. ![]()
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