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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Charles & Ada: The Computer’s Most Passionate Partnership
Author: ESSINGER JAMES
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2019
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS LTD
Price: $43.00
Publishing status: Active
The first book to reveal the intensity of the relationship between Charles Babbage and Ada
Lovelace; an outstanding contribution to hostorical STEM literature.
The names Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace are synonymous with pioneering computer
science and engineering, their work on the Analytical Engine shifting paradigms and sparking the
advent of the computer age in which our society is now based. The one seemingly a
stereotypically repressed Englishman, while the other would become an early feminist icon.
Without Ada there would have been no Charles, and it is through their ever-strengthening
friendship that history was made.
Here, James Essinger lays bear the fascinating story of the gradually intensifying friendship that
formed between Charles and Ada, interweaving it with tales of their outstanding professional
collaboration. Using personal letters to and from the duo, the true feelings behind their unique
friendship are revealed for the first time, adding personality, warmth and passion to the
partnership that changed the world.
16 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9780750990950
Dimension: 234mm X 156mm