Kickstarter Campaign Begins for Babbage & Lovelace

Just in time for Ada Lovelace Day I’m starting off the Kickstarter campaign to fund my newest book Babbage & Lovelace: The Victorian Computer Wizard and the Enchantress of Numbers. It’s the completely true story of the efforts of two of the most intriguing individuals in the history of science, and their efforts to build an actual working computer in the mid-1800’s, Charles Babbage was an iconoclastic mathematician willing to explore radical new technologies who conceived of a mechanical gearwork computer. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the notorious poet Lord Byron and a brilliant mathematician in her own right. She took Babbage’s ideas, translated them for the public and then expanded upon them. Together they dedicated their lives to  bringing the computer revolution to Victorian England, and they very nearly succeeded. Therein lies one of the great what if questions of history as well as the spark that helped launch the Steampunk movement.

If you’d like to learn more about Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace, please check out the Kickstarter campaign page.