History of Composing Machines

History of Composing Machines
Title History of Composing Machines PDF eBook
Author John Smith Thompson
Publisher
Pages 236
Release 1904
Genre Typesetting machines
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Writing Machines

Writing Machines
Title Writing Machines PDF eBook
Author N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 148
Release 2002
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780262582155

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A pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the artistic and cultural impact of the transformation of the print book to its electronic incarnations.

History of Composing Machines

History of Composing Machines
Title History of Composing Machines PDF eBook
Author John Smith Thompson
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 1904
Genre Typesetting machines
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Mechanical Typesetting

Mechanical Typesetting
Title Mechanical Typesetting PDF eBook
Author Philip T. Dodge
Publisher
Pages 16
Release 1894
Genre Linotype
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The Chinese Typewriter

The Chinese Typewriter
Title The Chinese Typewriter PDF eBook
Author Thomas S. Mullaney
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 501
Release 2018-10-09
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 0262536102

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How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters—in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for “Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained “typewriter girls” and “typewriter boys.” Still later was the “Double Pigeon” typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an input method that was the first instance of “predictive text.” Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an “object history” but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University

The Anatomy of Sleep

The Anatomy of Sleep
Title The Anatomy of Sleep PDF eBook
Author D 1852 Binns Edward
Publisher Legare Street Press
Pages 0
Release 2023-07-18
Genre
ISBN 9781019703472

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In this classic guide to sleep and relaxation, Binns Edward provides detailed advice on how to achieve deep and restful sleep through breathing exercises, meditation, and other techniques. With informative annotations and additions by Earl Stanhope, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to improve their sleep and overall health. 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.

Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines

Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines
Title Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines PDF eBook
Author Lisa Gitelman
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 308
Release 1999
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780804732703

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"The phonograph and the typewriter may be things of the past, but this book will resonate with readers who are engaged daily with computer networks, hypertexts, and the forms that mass media will take in the new century."--BOOK JACKET.