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What a wonderful experience. Extraordinary art, the mix of incredible detail and adorable cartooniness which itself is a reflection of the text, the amount of facts packed in, sprinkled amongst such playful humour. 1/?

In the running for favourite author-artist photo so far encountered. Between this and Terry Pratchett, I'm starting to think hats are key. 🎩🤠

Digitization efforts give me the warm fuzzies. Hurray for the preservation and indexing of information! 🥰

Okay, that did it, totally in love with this book. 🥰😸

I love how the book plays with its own format!

Learned a new phrase, which seems to suggest someone tested the rebound potential of a falling feline fatality. Thanks, I hate it. 😬

Bailing out bankers in 1890. The more things change, the more they stay the same... 🤦🏼‍♂️

The inventor of roller skates wore them at a party while simultaneously playing the violin and then did a header into a 500 £ mirror.
I love history, you can't make this shit up any battier than it actually occurred.

"My relationship with computers could be described as a grudging truce with sporadic outbreaks of open hostilities."
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SAME.

Friday night reading!

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I am thankful for all the #technology that forms the basis of my research, like the educational alternate reality game called The Tessera which featured Ada Lovelace as the head of a secret society of innovators fighting a mysterious force known only as S.

#technology #gratitude30

I really enjoyed the illustrations, but I wasn't passionate about the subject matter, and I got lost in the footnotes... Despite all that, I've learned some things about Lovelace and Babbage, but I feel like too much information kills information. My accurate rating is between so-so and pan...

This graphic novel is an imaginative and enjoyable read. It contains lots of math history, but doesn‘t bog down in the history.

I loved Ada, Charles and the story of their friendship formed from mutual respect and shared interests. I learned so much from footnotes. Text books should be written like this. Highly recommended for anyone interested in: computing, history, science, engineering and/or remarkable women.

Turned on my TV last night right at the moment an antiques show was discussing some of Mary Somerville‘s letters, inc. one from Babbage. So this pic seemed apt.

Loved this right from the first page. I wish I had appreciated the ‘poetical‘ nature of maths when I was at school, I would have applied myself to it a bit more. Happily, Sydney Padua is not a maths and science expert (she says so herself) so I can understand (most) of the technical things in here. And she is hilariously funny.

It's 11:15 pm and I can't WAIT to start my #24in48 #readathon with these two beauties! 💙 I keep eyeing the clock every few minutes. 😅

I managed to snatch some time from work the last few weeks to read a little from each, but it'll be WONDERFUL to just unplug and ✨read✨ for an entire weekend.

Other TBR candidates are Call Me By Your Name, Ethan Frome, Saga, Norse Mythology & some good ol' Batman.

What's everyone else reading? 😊

"An original scientific paper by a woman would have been very unusual, but there was precedent for women to write translations and summaries of men's work."

ALLL THE LOVE to Lovelace for adding her notes to a paper, making it two and a half times the size of the original. ♥

#currentlyreading #comics #graphicnovels #womenintech #girlpower #feminism #womeninscience #girlsjustwannahavefundamentalrights

This is even better - funnier and more unique- than I'd expected! I love the premise. Thanks for the rec @well.read.panda !
#SFPL #GraphicNovels #science

I'm going to use this title to multitask. Things you can say about this mostly true graphic novel: #itshistory, it makes you #think about how far computers have come, and it features #girlsinscience - a girl, anyway. #backtoreading #augustgrrrl #anditsaugust

#anditsaugust #day6 - #comicsbywomen

A terrific piece of edutainment that is by turns boundlessly charming and tenderly bittersweet.

I've been meaning to read this one for awhile. #24in48

Some absolute awesomeness from @gossamerchild - totally made my day and I love it!
#litsypenpals

Such a fun read.

Someone wants attention. 🐶🙂

I reviewed this for Shelf Awareness when it came out and am still recommending it to people. Pure joy if you love history/computer/literature geekery. A taste for steampunk helps too. My 12 year old daughter also read it several times, ignoring all the footnotes (the stories don't require them). The author is an animator who worked on Iron Giant and the 2016 Jungle Book movie. She has a website with excerpts from this. #comics #riotgrams

The first book I finished in 2017 was an interesting view on the beginnings of computer technology.
I'll try to do three challenges this year, so this was a great book to knock out a category from each of them 😁
#litsyatoz #readharder #popsugar

Well this is delightful 😊 #graphicnovel

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Today is Ada's birthday. She's widely known as the first computer programmer. She worked as a mathematician with Charles Babbage to develop his Analytical Machine & wrote the first algorithm to be read by a machine, all during a time when it wasn't common for women to study math or science. Her efforts have largely gone overlooked throughout history but are finally starting to be recognized. 🙌🏻

#badasswomen

The author's included an illustration by John Tenniel, about a bailout of, funnily enough , Barings Bank, in the 18th Century.

I like that instead of The Change, it reads 'Plus ca change', because when it comes to financial crises, nothing ever really changes!

I absolutely love this clever, charming book. Specially this panel and its nod to the dot com bubble.

This seems like a good read. It's a graphic novel, has great reviews, nonfiction and inspires people to build it with Legos!
http://www.victorianadventureenthusiast.com/index/vote-for-lovelace-babbage-at-l...
#Legos #graphicnovel @NataliePatalie

I'm taking a break from reading tonight to work on a baby blanket, but I'm having a hard time putting this down! It's so fun, and I'm learning. Win!

I've never been interested in graphic novels but I gave this one a chance. The verdict? If you like being entertained, learning a random assortment of fun facts, and having a gosh darn good time, this book is for you.

I can't let Ada Lovelace Day go by without reminding you that this amazing book exists! IT'S AN EPIC NERDPURR. I've read it so many times, I've lost count. ❤️🤘🏻📚

Do you like science? Or historical figures, like Charles Babbage (father of the computer) or Ada Lovelace (mother of computer coding)? What if those same historical figures were re-imagined to become crime fighters in steampunk London? Then friend, you have found that truly magical thing you didn‘t know you were looking for. Hilarious, witty and imaginative, you can‘t miss this. - Jax

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!

If you haven't read Sydney Padua's delightful, inventive, and innovative biography/alternate history graphic novel about Ada Lovelace and her colleague Charles Babbage, I highly recommend it! 😃

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Celebrate women in STEM. 🔬💁🏻

A graphic novel, but also a book with footnotes on the footnotes.

a toss up between a pick and so-so for me, while I did think the formating could have been better (maybe with all the footnotes at the end instead of in sectons), once I got used to it I did find it quite an enjoyable read 📚

"Pray do not corrupt the cats with poetry." -Ada Lovelace and George Elliot in this alternate reality analytical engine (steam-powered computer)

A mathematical story as a graphic novel?! What isn't right with this picture!!

Charming, whimsical, and fun, I mostly enjoyed this pocket universe version of Lovelace & Babbage. Although I feel like a lot of the book got bogged down by extensive historical/contextual footnotes, the moments of genuine heart and clever characterization (particularly this moment, Queen Victoria, Isambard Brunel, and George Eliot) definitely made up for it.

really enjoying this so far 📖

#hellooctober #currentlyreading #booksandtea #comics

"...the Pocket Universe in which Lovelace and Babbage live to complete the Analytical Engine, and naturally use it to HAVE THRILLING ADVENTURES and FIGHT CRIME!!"

I agree with the other reviews that found it somewhat annoying flipping between illustrations, footnotes, and endnotes. I did find that it became much less of an issue after the first chapter/section once it switched to the fantasy accounts of the creation of the engine. Overall I found the book very charming and entertaining.

OMG QUEEN VICTORIA SPEAKS IN ILLUMINATED SCRIPT

Oh my goodness I am SO HERE for this book

Oh my goodness I am SO HERE for this book