Electricity in Town and Country Houses
Author : Percy E. Scrutton
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Percy E. Scrutton
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Percy E. Scrutton
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Electric wiring, Interior
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Author : Graeme Gooday
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 082298170X
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 10,23 MB
Release : 1927
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Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Electric engineering
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Author : Rachel Plotnick
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 20,71 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262551950
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.
Author : Putnam A. Bates
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Electricity in agriculture
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Page : 1282 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 1948
Category : City planning
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Page : 720 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1935
Category : Rural electrification
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 1899
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