The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage — Pantheon Books
Issue: #1
A unique take on the unrealized invention of the computer in the 1830s by the eccentric polymath Charles Babbage and his accomplice, the daughter of Lord Byron, Ada, Countess of Lovelace. When Ada translated Babbage's plans for the "Difference Engine," her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, 100 years before an actual computer was built. Sydney Padua gives us...
First appearances: Alfred Tennyson, Augustus De Morgan, Ralph King-Milbanke, William Frend, Anne Blunt, Thomas Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, William King-Noel, William Rowan Hamilton, John Herschel, Luigi Federico Menabrea, Elizabeth Gaskell, Byron King-Noel, William Whewell, Charles Wheatstone
Creators: Sydney Padua
Characters: White Rabbit, Charles Babbage, George Eliot, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ada Lovelace, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Augustus De Morgan, Queen Victoria, Caroline Herschel, Lewis Carroll, Ralph King-Milbanke, Karl Marx, William Frend, Anne Blunt, Thomas Carlyle, Anne Isabella Byron, Harriet Martineau, William King-Noel, Charles Dickens