Ada Lovelace and Computing (The Eureka Moment) - Softcover

Canavan, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912904047 ISBN 13: 9781912904044

Publisher: Book House, 2019

Synopsis

This narrative non-fiction series tells the stories of great moments in science as if through the eyes of the scientists and inventors themselves. The stories are told like an adventure, with all the dramas, missteps and struggles along the way, ultimately leading to the Eureka moment of triumph. The books use all the tropes of fiction dialogue, action, suspense to tell true-life tales of human discovery and achievement. Readers will discover what happened during these milestones of science but crucially, they will also be able to imagine what it might have felt like to be at the cutting edge of progress. The narratives are interspersed with short comic strips dramatising significant episodes and boxes to explain scientific concepts, as well as historical information to set the story in a wider context. The end matter contains a timeline, a glossary and an index. In Ada Lovelace and Computing we follow the daughter of Lord Byron as she overcomes challenges both personal and scientific, dealing with her mother's controlling behaviour and the indifference or derision of male scientists to become a pioneering and hugely-important figure in the rise of computer technology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book House
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1912904047
• ISBN 13: 9781912904044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Illustrator: Stoney Annaliese