The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime--for the sake of both London and science.
A humorous take on the relationship between Ada King Lovelace and Charles Babbage, with an alternate reality in which they actually build a computer and use it to change the world in different ways.
