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Title Inside the machine : art and invention in the electronic age / Megan Prelinger.
Author Prelinger, Megan Shaw, author.
Publication Info. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  621.381 PRE    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 269 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
text rdacontent.
unmediated rdamedia.
volume rdacarrier.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-242) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Electronic apparatus and appliances -- Pictorial works.
Electronics -- Popular works.
Industrial design -- Popular works.
Photography, Artistic.
ISBN 0393083594 (hardcover) : $35.00
9780393083590 (hardcover)
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