Inside the machine : art and invention in the electronic age / Megan Prelinger.
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TextPublisher: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]Edition: First editionDescription: 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393083590; 0393083594Subject(s): Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Pictorial works | Electronics -- Popular works | Industrial design -- Popular works | Photography, Artistic | Electronic apparatus and appliances | Electronics | Industrial design | Photography, ArtisticGenre/Form: Illustrated works. | Pictorial works. | Popular works. | Illustrated works.DDC classification: 621.381 LOC classification: TK7870 | .P678 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The atom, the planet, and the tube -- Tubes that see : cathode-ray tubes -- Cold rock, warm life : crystals -- Transistors and circuit symbols -- Circuit boards and the matrix -- Automatic and digital : the emergence of computing -- Visible language -- The furthest horizon : space electronics -- Bionics, a prologue to transhumanism.
Traces the developments of the electronic age, providing a visual history of the 20th century's innovations that brought advancement in automation, bionics, computer language, and cybernetics.
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