The thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
By: Sydney Padua
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780307908278; 9780307908285
Subjects: Computers; Comic books, strips; History
Description: 315 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm1130L Lexile
Notes: "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.
Table of contents: title: Ada Lovelace: The Secret Origin! --; title: The Pocket Universe --; title: The Person from Porlock --; title: Lovelace & Babbage vs. the Client! --; title: Primary Sources --; title: Lovelace and Babbage vs. the Economic Model! --; title: Luddites! --; title: User Experience! --; title: Mr. Boole Comes to Tea --; title: Imaginary Quantities -- -- Appendix I.; title: Some Amusing Primary Documents -- -- Appendix II.; title: The Analytical Engine --; title: Epilogue