Comments on: Lovelace and Babbage vs The Economy, Part 3

By: E-Kay

E-Kay — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:13:46 +0000

Wow! I love it. I love this whole series. It keeps me occupied through the duller hours of the day. I totally adore Brunel! I’m going to study Engineering at Brunel University in September. There’s a statue of him on campus, which I fully intend to hang around constantly! Ah … engineering! My ultimate aim is to build myself a CD player (I don’t use iPods) that is fully steam powered! And has a bronze lever to skip tracks! There could also be a smattering of gears and cogs and whatnot.

By: thicket dweller

thicket dweller — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:02:43 +0000

P.S. My seven-year-old daughter, who’s a bit of an autodidact, too, but not quite there yet, LOVES the Twitter reference. :-D

By: thicket dweller

thicket dweller — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:01:54 +0000

You’re my new hero! There simply aren’t enough people in the world who are making history uber cool, let alone adding SCIENCE, MATH and COMICS into the mix!

My eleven-year-old daughter and I are autodidacts. Just today, we were reading about Babbage in Abraham Lincoln’s World by G. Foster. I then remembered my husband showing me a photo of the newly built Babbage machine and we read about some of it together. After showing the pictures to my daughter, I decided to try to find a more user-friendly description of the Babbage Engine and stumbled upon your site. GOLD! It’s so fun that you’re covering so many of the things that we just read this morning–Babbage, Lovelace, the U.S.’s economic collapse, steam–and in such a whimsical manner.

In short, here’s what I have to say: GO, YOU!

By: Barrie

Barrie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:44:04 +0000

Love it! Got pointed here by a female (practical) engineer of my acquaintance. Don’t dare tell her but she would make a good Brunel. Babbage and Brunal were amoung my teenage heros/role-models.
Please keep it up!

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:04:56 +0000

I have been loving L&B since running across it in my search for all things steampunk. I just can’t get enough. Ada is awesome and all little girls should learn about her or at the very least, read L&B because she’s so cool. Brunel is a sexy beast! And Babbage, the uber genius, is just great.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:11:22 +0000

I can’t decide. Is it bad that my mother said, “It’s a shame for Ada she was already married, cuz her and Big B [Brunel (yes, she really called him "Big B")] would’ve been great.”

By: S2

S2 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:29:59 +0000

Brilliant. :)

I followed a link from Rabett Run ([url=http://rabett.blogspot.com/]http://rabett.blogspot.com/[/url) to get here, and I’m glad that I did – it’s a great place to spend time that you can’t really afford to.

I’ve ordered a mug despite the price (which is quite high in the UK), if you ever do publish the collected works I would buy multiple copies as they would make excellent presents for the other geeks in the family.

Thanks!

By: doIreallyNeedanAlias

doIreallyNeedanAlias — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:55:48 +0000

In reference to your remark that you do not know anything about economics- Balderdash, my child! You know everything that anybody (actually, everybody) needs to know about economics. Carry on!

By: ubiquitouspitt

ubiquitouspitt — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:31:43 +0000

I actually heard Indiana Jones music playing in panels 7-9. Did you put that there or was it just me?

Engineers are hard sorts compared to mathematicians. I see that now.

I love how parliament looks like a bunch of sock puppets.

>US government which pretty much started out with a bank bail-out.

Yes, I learned that in my American Revolution class, last semester, and chuckled and chuckled and cried.

By: subliminalfox

subliminalfox — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:18:34 +0000

ooops, apparently Brunel shirts are available! my mistake! whooo!