Author: James White (Civil engineer)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A New Century of Inventions, Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life
Author: James White (Civil engineer)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
A New Century of Inventions; being designs and descriptions of one hundred machines relating to arts, manufactures and domestic life. With plates
Author: James White (Civil engineer)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A New Century of Inventions
Author: James White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventions
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries
Author: William Phillimore Watts Phillimore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Great Seal Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Patent Office Library Subject Lists. New Series
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Subject List of Works of Reference, Biography, Bibliography, the Auxiliary Historical Sciences, Etc., in the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference books
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Switch
Author: Jason Puskar
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452970335
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. By chronicling the rapid growth of binary switching since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common today as pushing a button or flipping a switch—the deceptively simple act of turning something on or off. More than a technical history, The Switch offers a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society. Analyzing this history, Puskar charts the rapid shift from analog to digital across a range of devices—keyboards, cameras, guns, light switches, computers, game controls, even the “nuclear button”—to understand how nineteenth-century techniques continue to influence today’s pervasive digital technologies. In contexts that include musical performance, finger counting, machine writing, voting methods, and immersive play, Puskar shows how the switch to switching led to radically new forms of action and thought. The innovative analysis in The Switch makes clear that binary inputs have altered human agency by making choice instantaneous, effort minimal, and effects more far-reaching than ever. In the process, it concludes, switching also fosters forms of individualism that, though empowering for many, also preserve a legacy of inequality and even domination.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452970335
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency The Switch traces the sudden rise of a technology that has transformed everyday life for billions of people: the binary switch. By chronicling the rapid growth of binary switching since the mid-nineteenth century, Jason Puskar contends that there is no human activity as common today as pushing a button or flipping a switch—the deceptively simple act of turning something on or off. More than a technical history, The Switch offers a cultural and political analysis of how reducing so much human action to binary alternatives has profoundly reshaped modern society. Analyzing this history, Puskar charts the rapid shift from analog to digital across a range of devices—keyboards, cameras, guns, light switches, computers, game controls, even the “nuclear button”—to understand how nineteenth-century techniques continue to influence today’s pervasive digital technologies. In contexts that include musical performance, finger counting, machine writing, voting methods, and immersive play, Puskar shows how the switch to switching led to radically new forms of action and thought. The innovative analysis in The Switch makes clear that binary inputs have altered human agency by making choice instantaneous, effort minimal, and effects more far-reaching than ever. In the process, it concludes, switching also fosters forms of individualism that, though empowering for many, also preserve a legacy of inequality and even domination.
Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Author: Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description