IfCharles BabbageandAda Lovelacehad managed to dispatch theAnalytical Engineand usher in an age of Victorian computing , what would they do next ? According to one comedian , the obvious answer is : team up and fight back law-breaking .
Artist Sydney Padua has been postingThe Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbageon her comedian internet site 2D Googles . The premise holds that proto - programmer ( and sole legitimate tiddler of Lord Byron ) Ada Lovelace did not die at old age 36 , but rather help inventor Charles Babbage modernise the first computer — a fully operative Analytical Engine — after which they retired to battle criminal offense using the power of maths ( and rayguns ) .
So far , Padua has pitted the pair against theeconomic Panic of 1837as well assubterranean salamander people , but the most priceless of the serial is , Ada Lovelace : The Origin , in which we learn the honest military group of Lovelace ’s prescience :
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