"First" Coin Machine Catalog
Title | "First" Coin Machine Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | First Coin Machine Exchange, Inc |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | Commercial catalogs |
ISBN |
The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative & War Medals, Books & Cabinets
Title | The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins, Tokens, Commemorative & War Medals, Books & Cabinets PDF eBook |
Author | Spink & Son |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Automatic Pleasures
Title | Automatic Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Nic Costa |
Publisher | D'Aleman Publishing |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2013-06-02 |
Genre | Coin-operated machines |
ISBN | 9789963291724 |
This book has stood the test of time. Copies of the first edition have over the years regularly sold for many times the cover price. The full color book is once more in print. Since its original publication it has been cited in many academic papers and has since become the definitive work on the subject. It caused embarrassment to the huge American coin machine industry when it was first published in 1988- they were busy celebrating the centenary of the Juke Box in that year as an American invention whereas the book revealed that it was actually an earlier British invention. It awoke huge interest in Japan by giving them long sought answers as to the origins of the Pachinko machine (which at the time was consuming as much as a quarter of the gross domestic product in Japan). As a direct result of the book a new museum was established in the Japanese city of Kobe and for a short while the author became a national celebrity there. The book established many new facts and destroyed many of the myths that had arisen in the gaming industry during the 20th century. Originally an ancient Greek invention, the advent of the coin machine in the 19th century heralded a Victorian revolution which sought to establish a fully automated society. The visionaries of the past are the direct forbears of the all pervasive computer industries -without the gaming and coin machine industries it is doubtful as to whether today's computer dominated age would have ever happened. Most important of all, it is fun to read!
Automatic Pleasures
Title | Automatic Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Nic Costa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
This book has stood the test of time. Copies of the first edition have over the years regularly sold for many times the cover price. The full color book is once more in print. Since its original publication it has been cited in many academic papers and has since become the definitive work on the subject. It caused embarrassment to the huge American coin machine industry when it was first published in 1988- they were busy celebrating the centenary of the Juke Box in that year as an American invention whereas the book revealed that it was actually an earlier British invention. It awoke huge interest in Japan by giving them long sought answers as to the origins of the Pachinko machine (which at the time was consuming as much as a quarter of the gross domestic product in Japan). As a direct result of the book a new museum was established in the Japanese city of Kobe and for a short while the author became a national celebrity there. The book established many new facts and destroyed many of the myths that had arisen in the gaming industry during the 20th century. Originally an ancient Greek invention, the advent of the coin machine in the 19th century heralded a Victorian revolution which sought to establish a fully automated society. The visionaries of the past are the direct forbears of the all pervasive computer industries -without the gaming and coin machine industries it is doubtful as to whether today's computer dominated age would have ever happened. Most important of all, it is fun to read
Billboard
Title | Billboard PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 1964-10-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
First Supplement to the Catalogue of the Young Men's Association Library of the City of Buffalo
Title | First Supplement to the Catalogue of the Young Men's Association Library of the City of Buffalo PDF eBook |
Author | Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo. Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 568 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
ISBN |
American Popular Music and Its Business
Title | American Popular Music and Its Business PDF eBook |
Author | the late Russell Sanjek |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 1988-07-28 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190243295 |
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.