Author: Harold Whiting Slauson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Everyman's Guide to Motor Efficiency
Author: Harold Whiting Slauson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
The Judge
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
User Unfriendly
Author: Joseph J. Corn
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401932
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
We’ve all been there. Seduced by the sleek designs and smart capabilities of the newest gadgets, we end up stumped by their complicated set-up instructions and exasperating error messages. In this fascinating history, Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. Aggravation with the new machines people adopt and live with is as old as the industrial revolution. Clocks, sewing machines, cameras, lawn mowers, bicycles, electric lights, cars, and computers: all can empower and exhilarate, but they can also exact a form of servitude. Adopters puzzle over which type and model to buy and then how to operate the device, diagnose its troubles, and meet its insatiable appetite for accessories, replacement parts, or upgrades. It intrigues Corn that we put up with the frustrations our technology thrusts upon us, battling with the unfamiliar and climbing the steep learning curves. It is this ongoing struggle, more than the uses to which we ultimately put our machines, that animates this thought-provoking study. Having extensively researched owner’s manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology. User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401932
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
We’ve all been there. Seduced by the sleek designs and smart capabilities of the newest gadgets, we end up stumped by their complicated set-up instructions and exasperating error messages. In this fascinating history, Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. Aggravation with the new machines people adopt and live with is as old as the industrial revolution. Clocks, sewing machines, cameras, lawn mowers, bicycles, electric lights, cars, and computers: all can empower and exhilarate, but they can also exact a form of servitude. Adopters puzzle over which type and model to buy and then how to operate the device, diagnose its troubles, and meet its insatiable appetite for accessories, replacement parts, or upgrades. It intrigues Corn that we put up with the frustrations our technology thrusts upon us, battling with the unfamiliar and climbing the steep learning curves. It is this ongoing struggle, more than the uses to which we ultimately put our machines, that animates this thought-provoking study. Having extensively researched owner’s manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology. User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2236
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2236
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
The United States Catalog Supplement, January 1918-June 1921
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description