Publisher Description
"Gorgeous incredibly engaging, geeky and wickedly witty" Wired.com's Geek Dad Science heroes Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage fight crime, clients, street-musicians and poetry in a gadget-filled steampunk Victorian London, in cult webcomic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage . Now beautifully redrawn for the iPad, their adventures are accompanied by copious footnotes and hundreds of real-life historical documents and illustrations. The app includes the FREE "Lovelace: The Origin", a graphical biography of Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of notorious poet Lord Byron, and computer programmer before there *were* any computers. With extensive footnotes, and some very special historical objects included! The app is part of Ada Lovelace Day 2011 (http://findingada.com) an international day to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Try out The Client , a full-length adventure featuring Queen Victoria, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Wellington's horse, and astounding excerpts from the autobiography of Charles Babbage Discover a whole host of historical curiosities, facts and interesting tidbits Explore Victorian books, magazines and articles in a beautiful full-screen reader Delve into hundreds of Wikipedia articles, stored in the app for superfast offline reading Sheer genius if I was not already married, I would propose to this comic. That's how much I love it. Nick Harkaway, author of The Gone-away World One of the geekiest, funniest, most consistently intelligent and entertaining web comics being written these days. Economist contributor G.F. Absolutely great online comic a real treat. The Times OMG! Bruce Sterling, author of The Difference Engine
Requires iOS 4.2 or later. Compatible with iPad.