320 pages
English language
Published Dec. 18, 2016 by Penguin Books, Limited.
This is a delightful book with mostly true facts about computing and history, even if the overall premise is a pocket universe were Lovelace and babbage team up to fight crime (for an idiosyncratic definition of 'crime').
Very Good comic on a historical figure.
What a fabulous book!
A mixture of comic strip silliness, delightful anecdote and thorough research (aided by the spiritual successors to Babbage's never realised Analytical Engine) that provides the perfect introduction to the designer of the world's first computer and the author of the world's first computer science article!
This dynamic duo have to face: visits from Royalty! Funding problems! Infestations of monkeys! And more! Meet such supporting characters as Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Marian Evans (better known as George Eliot) and a Leopard! Enjoy such additional delights as: extensive footnotes that take on a life of their own! Primary sources! An explanation of how the Analytical Engine was supposed to work! And an Epilogue! And more!
Seriously, read this book to laugh while you learn and wonder how history would have gone if Babbage had just completed even one of his designs...
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