Author: Frederick Collier Bakewell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric conduits
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Electric Science; Its History, Phenomena, and Applications
Author: Frederick Collier Bakewell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric conduits
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric conduits
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Electric Science; Its History, Phenomena, and Applications
Author: Frederick Collier Bakewell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric conduits
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric conduits
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Electric Science
Author: Frederick Collier Bakewell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243619610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243619610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Classified Catalogue of the Library, etc
Author: Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society (LEEDS)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Microscope
Author: Jabez Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscope and microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscope and microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
History of Russia from the Foundation of the Empire by Rourick to the Close of the Hungarian War
Author: Alphonse Rabbe
Publisher: London : H. Ingram, W.S. Orr
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher: London : H. Ingram, W.S. Orr
ISBN:
Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Faxed
Author: Jonathan Coopersmith
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415925
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The intriguing story of the rise and fall—and unexpected persistence—of the fax machine illustrates the close link between technology and culture. Co-Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History of the Business History Conference Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine—the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant visual culture that characterize our contemporary world. Most people assume that the fax machine originated in the computer and electronics revolution of the late twentieth century, but it was actually invented in 1843. Almost 150 years passed between the fax’s invention in England and its widespread adoption in tech-savvy Japan, where it still enjoys a surprising popularity. Over and over again, faxing’s promise to deliver messages instantaneously paled before easier, less expensive modes of communication: first telegraphy, then radio and television, and finally digitalization in the form of email, the World Wide Web, and cell phones. By 2010, faxing had largely disappeared, having fallen victim to the same technological and economic processes that had created it. Based on archival research and interviews spanning two centuries and three continents, Coopersmith’s book recovers the lost history of a once-ubiquitous technology. Written in accessible language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market pull, user-based innovation, and “blackboxing” (the packaging of complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices) while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly passé.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415925
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The intriguing story of the rise and fall—and unexpected persistence—of the fax machine illustrates the close link between technology and culture. Co-Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History of the Business History Conference Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine—the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant visual culture that characterize our contemporary world. Most people assume that the fax machine originated in the computer and electronics revolution of the late twentieth century, but it was actually invented in 1843. Almost 150 years passed between the fax’s invention in England and its widespread adoption in tech-savvy Japan, where it still enjoys a surprising popularity. Over and over again, faxing’s promise to deliver messages instantaneously paled before easier, less expensive modes of communication: first telegraphy, then radio and television, and finally digitalization in the form of email, the World Wide Web, and cell phones. By 2010, faxing had largely disappeared, having fallen victim to the same technological and economic processes that had created it. Based on archival research and interviews spanning two centuries and three continents, Coopersmith’s book recovers the lost history of a once-ubiquitous technology. Written in accessible language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market pull, user-based innovation, and “blackboxing” (the packaging of complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices) while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly passé.
Shocking Bodies
Author: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752463810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani's discovery of 'animal electricity' at the end of the eighteenth century opened up a whole new world of possibilities, in which electricity could cure sickness, restore sexual potency and even raise the dead. In Shocking Bodies, Iwan Rhys Morus explores how the Victorians thought about electricity, and how they tried to use its intimate and corporeal force to answer fundamental questions about life and death. Some even believed that electricity was life, which brought into question the existence of the soul, and of God, and provided arguments in favour of political radicalism. This is the story of how electricity emerged as a powerful new tool for making sense of our bodies and the world around us.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752463810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani's discovery of 'animal electricity' at the end of the eighteenth century opened up a whole new world of possibilities, in which electricity could cure sickness, restore sexual potency and even raise the dead. In Shocking Bodies, Iwan Rhys Morus explores how the Victorians thought about electricity, and how they tried to use its intimate and corporeal force to answer fundamental questions about life and death. Some even believed that electricity was life, which brought into question the existence of the soul, and of God, and provided arguments in favour of political radicalism. This is the story of how electricity emerged as a powerful new tool for making sense of our bodies and the world around us.
The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications ...
Author: Jabez Hogg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscope and microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microscope and microscopy
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum
Author: Science museum libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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