Sydney Padua

If you haven't come across it, I recommend you check out 2D-goggles [0] for what might have happened... Sydney Padua is an animator and she's created some 3d animations of parts of the analytical engine. [1] [0] https://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/ [1] https://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/uncategorized/the-marvellous-analyti…

“Some guy” is John Graham-Cumming (CTO of Cloudflare) and the project website is https://www.plan28.org/ named after Babbage’s final iteration of his design. I am sitting below a poster of Sydney Padua’s splendid cartoon of Plan 25, and her book and comics are the most entertaining way to learn a bit about Lovelace and Babbage http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/comics/

Babbage shows his latest invention to a dubious Lovelace: "It's operated by a crank!!" "... Indeed." :-P http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-…

Anybody interested in Babbage could find much amusement in "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" [1] by Sydney Padua, a webcomic that spawned a book. It refers to a lot of incredible-but-actually-true material, duly footnoted. [1] http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/

I have to mention this: http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-economy/

For an alternative take on Ada Lovelace (the mother of programming) and her relationship with Charles Babbage (the father of computing), check out Sydney Padua's awesome graphic novel: "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" [0]. Steampunk romance with difference engines and a guest appearance from Isembard Kingdom Brunel ("You look like you need an Engineer"). It's not as serious as the OP, but I love it, especially Babbage's "War on Error". [0] http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/the-book/

If you are interested in the subject and also like good comics, there's an amazing book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrilling_Adventures_of_Lovelace_and… The Introduction: "Lovelace– The Origin" http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ The book also has a lot of real historical information, nicely interwoven in the comics with the footnotes and end-notes, and they are a joy to read too.

There is an excellent webcomic called The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, that describes what would have happened if they had successfully completed the Analytical Engine and gone on to fight crime. http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/ More impressive than the comic itself is the amount of research put into it and the footnotes that go along with it. The author often takes inspiration directly from primary sources. For instance, a whole series on Babbage's strange hatred of street musicians.

Brunel makes occasional appearances along side Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in Sydney Padua's alternative-history web comic "2D Goggles", which is worth your time... http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/cast/

The book goes at great lengths into references and primary sources to explore both sides of this debate. Indeed, one of the stories is dedicated to whether Lady Lovelace is a fraud or not. The author also gives encouragement and instructions on how to look for primary sources yourself. It's also a damn fun book. The characters quote boastful mike-drops that are actually found in historical record, such as "with all the steam I can command, your ladyship". I recommend you buy it. Or you can check out her stuff from her website, also chock-full of fascinating footnotes: http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/

The Lovelace & Babbage comic is fun: http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/lovelace-the-origin-2/ (that's the one Sydney Padua did for Lovelace Day, but there's lots more on the site). The cartoons are in a steampunk comedy style, but backed with copious footnotes and links to the source documents about the details and characters.