The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

'My new favourite book. It has everything. Byron, maths, imaginary computers, emotion' - Matt Haig

Meet two of Victorian London's greatest geniuses... Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron- mathematician, gambler, and proto-programmer, whose writings contained the first ever appearance of general computing theory. And Charles Babbage, eccentric inventor of the Difference Engine, an enormous clockwork calculating machine that would have been the first computer...