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| Author | : Walter Buehr |
| Publisher | : Colchis Books |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
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This book is about the story of modern machines, and how they do the world’s work. We shall see how raw materials, such as metals, wool and cotton fibers, and wood, are turned into automobiles, ships, typewriters, fabrics, and other useful products. Our machine age has made this possible, for only by machines can these many products be made cheaply and quickly. We shall also see how machines are able to do such varied jobs as threshing grain, machining engine blocks, or multiplying long rows of numbers. And later on, we shall learn how automation, the newest marvel of the machine age, teaches machines almost to “think” for themselves.
| Author | : Emilio Bautista Paz |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2010-08-02 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 904812512X |
Download A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to human events as a whole in order to highlight some significant milestones in the progress of knowledge by a complementary persp- tive into a general historical overview. This book is the result of common efforts and interests by several scholars, teachers, and students on subjects that are connected with the theory of machines and mechanisms. In fact, in this book there is a certain teaching aim in addition to a general historical view that is more addressed to the achievements by “homo faber” than to those by “homo sapiens”, since the proposed history survey has been developed with an engineering approach. The brevity of the text added to the fact that the authors are probably not com- tent to tackle historical studies with the necessary rigor, means the content of the book is inevitably incomplete, but it nevertheless attempts to fulfil three basic aims: First, it is hoped that this book may provide a stimulus to promote interest in the study of technical history within a mechanical engineering context. Few are the co- tries where anything significant is done in this area, which means there is a general lack of knowledge of this common cultural heritage.
| Author | : Audrey Watters |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2023-02-07 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 026254606X |
Download Teaching Machines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning. Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and film--in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the "pre-verbal" machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include "Autodidak," "Instructomat," and "Autostructor.") Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls "the teleology of ed tech"--the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events.
| Author | : Pamela McCorduck |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2004-03-17 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1040083102 |
Download Machines Who Think Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a history of artificial intelligence, that audacious effort to duplicate in an artifact what we consider to be our most important property—our intelligence. It is an invitation for anybody with an interest in the future of the human race to participate in the inquiry.
| Author | : Thomas Rid |
| Publisher | : Scribe Publications |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2016-07-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1925307603 |
Download Rise of the Machines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thomas Rid’s revelatory history of cybernetics pulls together disparate threads in the history of technology, from the invention of radar and pilotless flying bombs in World War Two to today’s age of CCTV, cryptocurrencies and Oculus Rift, to make plain that our current anxieties about privacy and security will be emphatically at the crux of the new digital future that we have been steadily, sometimes inadvertently, creating for ourselves. Rise of the Machines makes a singular and significant contribution to the advancement of our clearer understanding of that future – and of the past that has generated it. PRAISE FOR THOMAS RID ‘A fascinating survey of the oscillating hopes and fears expressed by the cybernetic mythos.’ The Wall Street Journal ‘Thoughtful, enlightening … a mélange of history, media studies, political science, military engineering and, yes, etymology … A meticulous yet startling alternate history of computation.’ New Scientist
| Author | : Roger Priddy |
| Publisher | : Priddy Books US |
| Total Pages | : 14 |
| Release | : 2018-03-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 125031173X |
Download First 100 Trucks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Your little one will love to discover the incredible trucks and things that go inside this bright padded board book from Roger Priddy. There are 100 different truck photographs to look at and talk about, and 100 truck names to read and learn, too. The automobiles are organized into different types such as cars, rescue vehicles and more. This is an ideal first book for babies and toddlers to help build vocabulary and develop word and picture association. The pages are made from tough board for hours of fun reading, and the cover is softly padded for little hands to hold.
| Author | : Marshall Fey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004-09 |
| Genre | : Gambling |
| ISBN | : 9781889243023 |
Download Slot Machines Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of slot machines from their inception up to the casino machines of today.
| Author | : Tom DeLonge |
| Publisher | : To The Stars |
| Total Pages | : 541 |
| Release | : 2016-04-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1943272166 |
Download Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For those who know... that something is going on... The witnesses are legion, scattered across the world and dotted through history, people who looked up and saw something impossible lighting up the night sky. What those objects were, where they came from, and who—or what—might be inside them is the subject of fierce debate and equally fierce mockery, so that most who glimpsed them came to wish they hadn’t. Most, but not everyone. Among those who know what they’ve seen, and—like the toll of a bell that can’t be unrung—are forever changed by it, are a pilot, an heiress, a journalist, and a prisoner of war. From the waning days of the 20th century’s final great war to the fraught fields of Afghanistan to the otherworldly secrets hidden amid Nevada’s dusty neverlands—the truth that is out there will propel each of them into a labyrinth of otherworldly technology and the competing aims of those who might seek to prevent—or harness—these beings of unfathomable power. Because, as it turns out, we are not the only ones who can invent and build...and destroy. Featuring actual events and other truths drawn from sources within the military and intelligence community, Tom DeLonge and A.J. Hartley offer a tale at once terrifying, fantastical, and perhaps all too real. Though it is, of course, a work of... fiction?
| Author | : Tracy Kidder |
| Publisher | : Back Bay Books |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2011-08-23 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0316204552 |
Download The Soul of A New Machine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tracy Kidder's "riveting" (Washington Post) story of one company's efforts to bring a new microcomputer to market won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and has become essential reading for understanding the history of the American tech industry. Computers have changed since 1981, when The Soul of a New Machine first examined the culture of the computer revolution. What has not changed is the feverish pace of the high-tech industry, the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up), and the cult of pursuing mind-bending technological innovations. The Soul of a New Machine is an essential chapter in the history of the machine that revolutionized the world in the twentieth century. "Fascinating...A surprisingly gripping account of people at work." --Wall Street Journal
| Author | : Brian Merchant |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-09-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780316487740 |
Download Blood in the Machine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th century rebels, the Luddites, took up arms against the industrialists that were automating their work--and how it explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech today. The most pressing story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley, Seattle, or even Shenzhen. It begins two hundred years ago in rural England, when working men and women rose up en masse rather than starve at the hands of the factory owners who were using machines to erase and degrade their livelihoods. They organized guerilla raids, smashed those machines, and embarked on full-scale assaults against the wealthy machine owners. They won the support of Lord Byron, inspired Mary Shelley, and enraged the Prince Regent and his bloodthirsty government. Before it was over, much blood would be spilled--of rich and poor, of the invisible and of the powerful. This all-but-forgotten and deeply misunderstood class struggle nearly brought 19th century England to its knees. We live now in the second machine age, when similar fears that big tech is dominating our lives and machines replacing human labor run high. We worry that technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are ousting workers from factories, and artificial intelligence will soon remove drivers from cars. How will this all reshape our economy and the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in the story of our first machine age, when mechanization first came to British factories at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Intertwined with a lucid examination of our current age, the story of the Luddites, the working-class insurgency that took up arms against automation (at a time when it was punishable by death to break a machine), Blood in the Machine reaches through time and space to tell a story about how technology changed our world--and how it's already changing our future.
