Author: Emily Augusta PatmorePublisher:
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Category : Women household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The servant's behaviour book; or, Hints on manners and dress for maid servants in small households, by mrs. Motherly
Author: Emily Augusta PatmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women household employees
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A wife's home duties: containing practical hints to inexperienced housekeepers
Author: WifeBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Notes and Queries
Author: 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.
Readings on the Morning and Evening Prayer
Author: Julia Sophia BluntA Wife's home duties: containing practical hints to inexperienced housekeepers
Author: The Servant's Behaviour Book
Author: Emily Augusta PatmorePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019410813
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1857, The Servants Behaviour Book is a guide to good manners and appropriate behavior for maid servants in small households. It covers everything from proper dress to household etiquette and is a fascinating look into domestic life in Victorian England. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: John Locke
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