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13 August 2024

• 20:3020:30, 13 August 2024 diff hist +306‎ Charles Babbage ‎No edit summary current

21 June 2024

• 18:5218:52, 21 June 2024 diff hist +125‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Compositors / Typography / Typesetting current
• 18:5118:51, 21 June 2024 diff hist +143‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Compositors / Typography / Typesetting
• 18:4918:49, 21 June 2024 diff hist +4,084‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary current
• 18:1118:11, 21 June 2024 diff hist +161‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prints
• 18:1018:10, 21 June 2024 diff hist −113‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Media / Digital Book Studies

20 June 2024

• 18:5718:57, 20 June 2024 diff hist +3,922‎ N Otis 2024 ‎ Created page with "Otis, Jessica Marie. ''By the Numbers: Numeracy, Religion, and the Quantitative Transformation of Early Modern England.'' Oxford: Oxford UP, 2024. Introduction—“Number, Weight and Measure”: Numeracy in Early Modern England This transformation in numerical practices was complex and wide-ranging in its impact on early modern society and thought. In part, it was a transfor- mation in symbolic systems—the culturally agreed upon symbols and syntax used to represent..." current
• 18:5618:56, 20 June 2024 diff hist +163‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Early Modern

17 June 2024

• 15:0415:04, 17 June 2024 diff hist +4,103‎ N Coulter 1935 ‎ Created page with "Coulter MA thesis on prison journals Begins with poem — Ralph Chaplin, “Night in the Cell-House” “Material on the subject of prison journals is very limited — confined mostly to magazine articles, the Proceedings of the Annual Congress of the National Prison Association, writings of ex-convicts, and the prison journals themselves.” — so also sent out a questionnaire to 266 institutions Managed to receive info for 258 institutions Low level of education..." current
• 15:0315:03, 17 June 2024 diff hist +163‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies
• 14:3314:33, 17 June 2024 diff hist +22,759‎ N Fleetwood 2020 ‎ Created page with "Fleetwood, Nicole R. ''Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. What I learned is that art in prison is a practice of survival, an aesthetic journey that documents time in captivity, a mode of connecting with others, but it does not resolve the injustices rooted in the carceral system. Page 23 This book focuses on the art and aesthetic experiments of people imprisoned in the massive labyrinth of domestic jails an..." current
• 14:3214:32, 17 June 2024 diff hist +141‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Prison History / Prison Labor / Carceral Studies

12 June 2024

• 21:4321:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist +328‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary
• 21:4121:41, 12 June 2024 diff hist +5,349‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary
• 21:1421:14, 12 June 2024 diff hist +7,511‎ Cockburn 1983 ‎No edit summary
• 20:4320:43, 12 June 2024 diff hist +2,318‎ N Cockburn 1983 ‎ Created page with "Cockburn, Cynthia. ''Brothers: Male Dominance and Technological Change.'' Pluto Press, 1983. marxist approaches to labor of compositors can't account for the gender dynamics within the industry apprenticeship in a chapel for a set number of years, male rituals after industrialization: "Womena nd children, who had characteristically worked and earned within a family context, were increasingly drawn into employment in factories and mines. Here they came under the contro..."
• 20:3220:32, 12 June 2024 diff hist +113‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Media / Digital Book Studies

23 May 2024

• 14:4914:49, 23 May 2024 diff hist +172‎ N Joseph Marie Jacquard and his loom ‎ Created page with "Jacquard punched cards in the collection at Thomas Jefferson University: * https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34637604 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.34637603" current

22 May 2024

• 19:0319:03, 22 May 2024 diff hist +13,000‎ N Fagone 2017 ‎ Created page with "Fagone, Jason. ''The Woman Who Smashed Codes.'' 2017. Riverbank Laboratories, a bizarre institution now abandoned, a place that helped create the modern NSA but which the NSA knew little about. Elizebeth and her future husband, William Friedman, had lived there when they were young, between 1916 and 1920, when they discovered a series of techniques and patterns that changed cryptology forever. Elizebeth later wrote that seeing the Folio gave her the same feeling “tha..." current
• 19:0119:01, 22 May 2024 diff hist +72‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Computing
• 18:2618:26, 22 May 2024 diff hist +9,533‎ N Lupton 2018 ‎ Created page with "Lupton, Christina. ''Reading and the Marking of Time in the Eighteenth Century.'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. == Introduction: When Do We Read? == Our days are flooded with small texts that contract and expand to fit the minutes we choose to give them. But when do we read books, those texts whose heft seems more plaintively than ever an appeal to reading’s duration? 1 I do not believe that the minutes crowded by messages, HBO series, and childc..." current
• 15:3115:31, 22 May 2024 diff hist +149‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Reading / Compiling / Arranging
• 14:5514:55, 22 May 2024 diff hist +10‎ Lupton 2012 ‎ →‎Introduction: Giving Power to the Medium current
• 14:4014:40, 22 May 2024 diff hist +3‎ Lupton 2012 ‎ →‎Introduction: Giving Power to the Medium
• 14:3914:39, 22 May 2024 diff hist +8,599‎ Lupton 2012 ‎ →‎Prologue
• 14:3014:30, 22 May 2024 diff hist +4,375‎ N Lupton 2012 ‎ Created page with "Lupton, ''Knowing Books'' (2012) == Prologue == Almost immediately, I was struck by the ways much of this literature was self-reflexive in its own terms, not just about representation, but about the material, economic, and colonial contexts of textual production. Could imperialist and elitist l ture that announced its ideological operations be held responsible for them in the same way as literature that conducted them more by stealth? Were commercially produced texts..."
• 14:2814:28, 22 May 2024 diff hist +172‎ Main Page ‎ →‎Book History

5 April 2024

• 15:2515:25, 5 April 2024 diff hist +15‎ Mechanical typesetting ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2515:25, 5 April 2024 diff hist +8,817‎ N Mechanical typesetting ‎ Created page with "== Melissa Score, "Interred in Printing House Vaults: Pianotype Composing Machines of the 1840s," ''Victorian Periodicals Review'' 49.4 (Winter 2016): 578-597. == …the pianotype composing machine is not just a footnote in the inevitable rise of Linotype technology but an artefact that interro- gates preconceived ideas of the compositor’s role and raises the question of why, in the 1840s and 1850s, the mechanization of typesetting was inspired by the workings of the..."
• 15:2115:21, 5 April 2024 diff hist +48‎ Typewriters ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 5 April 2024 diff hist +32‎ N Player piano ‎ Created page with "see Ord-Hume, ''Pianola'' (1984)" current
• 15:1815:18, 5 April 2024 diff hist +18‎ From Type to .txt ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 5 April 2024 diff hist +80‎ Telegraphy ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 5 April 2024 diff hist +49‎ Telegraphy ‎No edit summary
• 15:1615:16, 5 April 2024 diff hist +175‎ N Telegraphy ‎ Created page with "Colligan and Linley 2011 -- Ivan Raykoff chapter on piano interface in early telegraphs, typewriters, and player pianos Kieve 1973 -- British history of the telegraph"
• 15:1615:16, 5 April 2024 diff hist +111‎ Main Page ‎ →‎19th Century Media & Technology
• 15:1615:16, 5 April 2024 diff hist −111‎ Main Page ‎ →‎History of Computing
• 15:1515:15, 5 April 2024 diff hist +166‎ N Typewriters ‎ Created page with "Greene 2022 -- chapter on Typewriters Colligan and Linley 2011 -- Ivan Raykoff chapter on piano interface in early telegraphs, typewriters, and player pianos"
• 15:1415:14, 5 April 2024 diff hist +61‎ From Type to .txt ‎No edit summary
• 15:1315:13, 5 April 2024 diff hist +82‎ Greene 2022 ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 5 April 2024 diff hist +3,577‎ N Greene 2022 ‎ Created page with "== 43. Typewriter == As a matter of fact, the first known patent for such a machine was granted by Queen Anne on January 7, 1714, to an inventor named Henry Mill. The 1714 p ent straightforwardly described the work of the “artificial machine,” but no record exists of the machine ever being built by Henry Mill. Later attempts at such a machine were made in Italy and other countries using harpsichord keyboards, which became known as “literary pianos.” Some of th..."
• 15:1115:11, 5 April 2024 diff hist +122‎ Main Page ‎ →‎19th Century
• 15:0915:09, 5 April 2024 diff hist +7,759‎ Colligan and Linley 2011 ‎ →‎intro current
• 15:0715:07, 5 April 2024 diff hist +4,293‎ N Colligan and Linley 2011 ‎ Created page with "Colligan, Colette and Margaret Linley, eds. Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Pub. Company, 2011. == intro == … media machines, but in tandem with unprecedented increases in literacy rates, enlargement of urban spaces and imperial networks, and expansion of industrialization and commodity exchange, the nineteenth century experienced the emergence of media ubiquity. after a century of innovative..."
• 15:0515:05, 5 April 2024 diff hist +197‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary

21 February 2024

• 02:1802:18, 21 February 2024 diff hist +147‎ Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians ‎ →‎Elizabeth Wells Gallup, The Bi-lateral Cipher of Francis Bacon (1899) current

19 February 2024

• 20:2320:23, 19 February 2024 diff hist +47‎ Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians ‎ →‎Recent scholarship
• 20:2220:22, 19 February 2024 diff hist +466‎ Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians ‎ →‎Recent scholarship
• 20:1920:19, 19 February 2024 diff hist +202‎ Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians ‎ →‎Orville Ward Owen, Sir Francis Bacon’s Cipher Story (1893)
• 20:1720:17, 19 February 2024 diff hist −1,888‎ Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians ‎ →‎Recent scholarship