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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
MotorBoating
Author: The Winged Foot
Author: Cartoons Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
MotorBoating
Author: The Bookman
Author: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
Author: Sydney PaduaPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307908283
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A debut graphic biography that transforms one of the most compelling scientific collaborations into a hilarious series of adventures. Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines. But do not despair! The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime—for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible. With black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Circular
Author: Once a Soldier
Author: R. Renwick HartPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475999631
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
This book is all about the author’s life from his early days as a child in Hawaii, in the mid 1930’s, through his days at West Point, his war tour in Vietnam and military career with two additional retirement careers: First, with he and his wife creating an import and retail operation and later as an aircraft accident investigator and consultant. The book also reaches back into his family history and the lives of his mother and father to provide a genealogy of his heritage. As noted early in this memoir, “There is always time to ask your parents questions about their youth or how they met one another. After all, they are there and can answer those questions any day. So life rolls on and one day they are gone ... and the answers to all those questions are gone with them; FOREVER!” In this book, all those questions are answered, sometimes with great humor and occasionally with sadness, but always with accuracy and truth.
Author: Jack Miner
Author: JACK MINERS