Author: Publisher:
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Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Popular Electricity and the World's Advocate
Author: Popular Electricity and the World's Advance
Author: Henry Walter YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electricity
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Power Button
Author: Rachel PlotnickPublisher: 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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Author: Literary Digest
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ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Literary Digest
Author: Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Author: Edward Jewitt WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Nuclear Power Costs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Electrical World
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
Nuclear Power Costs: Solar energy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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