Author: Emily Augusta Patmore
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Category : Women household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The servant's behaviour book; or, Hints on manners and dress for maid servants in small households, by mrs. Motherly
Author: Emily Augusta Patmore
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Category : Women household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Publisher:
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Category : Women household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Ladies' Companion
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Category : Women's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Women's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and instruction. [entitled] Sharpe's London journal. [entitled] Sharpe's London magazine, conducted by mrs. S.C. Hall
Author: Anna Maria Hall
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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A wife's home duties: containing practical hints to inexperienced housekeepers
Author: Wife
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Power Button
Author: Rachel Plotnick
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262551950
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262551950
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and “like” something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when “technologies of the hand” proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing—as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)—Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users. Plotnick discusses the uses of early push buttons to call servants, and the growing tensions between those who work with their hands and those who command with their fingers; automation as “automagic,” enabling command at a distance; instant gratification, and the victory of light over darkness; and early twentieth-century imaginings of a future push-button culture. Push buttons, Plotnick tells us, have demonstrated remarkable staying power, despite efforts to cast button pushers as lazy, privileged, and even dangerous.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Readings on the Morning and Evening Prayer
Author: Julia Sophia Blunt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A Wife's home duties: containing practical hints to inexperienced housekeepers
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon
Author: John Locke
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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