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23 September 2026
- 14:5714:57, 23 September 2026 diff hist +2,246 Logarithmic tables No edit summary current
9 September 2026
- 16:2516:25, 9 September 2026 diff hist +1,199 Logarithmic tables No edit summary
- 15:4815:48, 9 September 2026 diff hist +2,084 Logarithmic tables No edit summary
8 September 2026
- 18:1818:18, 8 September 2026 diff hist +533 Logarithmic tables No edit summary
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- 16:5116:51, 8 September 2026 diff hist +1,808 Logarithmic tables No edit summary
- 16:4016:40, 8 September 2026 diff hist +3,570 N Logarithmic tables Created page with "Henry Briggs ''A table to �find the height of the pole, the magnetical declination being given'' (Blundeville, 1602) Wright and Briggs, ''Certaine errors in navigation'' (London, 1610) John Napier, ''Mirifici Logarithmorium canonis descriptio'' (Edinburgh: Printed by Andrew Hart, 1614) * 90 pages of tables John Napier, ''A description of the admirable table of logarithms'' (trans. E. Wright) (London, 1616) * used by navigators for exploration, East India Company Jo..."
- 16:2116:21, 8 September 2026 diff hist +24 From Type to .txt No edit summary current
16 July 2026
- 16:1216:12, 16 July 2026 diff hist −2 Automata No edit summary current
16 March 2026
- 18:5418:54, 16 March 2026 diff hist +741 Owen's cipher wheel and Baconians →Recent scholarship current
11 March 2026
9 March 2026
18 February 2026
- 15:4115:41, 18 February 2026 diff hist +3 Automata No edit summary
- 15:3615:36, 18 February 2026 diff hist −236 Automata →Friedrich von Knaus, writing machines
- 15:2415:24, 18 February 2026 diff hist +686 Automata No edit summary
3 February 2026
- 16:5816:58, 3 February 2026 diff hist +10,479 N Automata Created page with "== Friedrich von Knaus, writing machines == Programmable machine: * https://www.technischesmuseum.at/tmw-zine/ki-zine/schreiben_wie_von_selbst * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLUoDSNDj4U Von Knaus became a Catholic in 1754; see page 21 of his Schribmaschine From Computer Timeline website: During his show in front of Emperor Franz I, on 4 October 1760, the Writer of von Knaus filled the Emperor and the entire Court with wonder, by writing under his eyes the follo..."
- 16:5516:55, 3 February 2026 diff hist +14 From Type to .txt No edit summary
21 January 2026
- 17:2317:23, 21 January 2026 diff hist +581 Charles Babbage →Ninth Bridgewater Treatise current
- 17:2217:22, 21 January 2026 diff hist +4,256 Charles Babbage No edit summary
19 January 2026
- 21:5621:56, 19 January 2026 diff hist +5,629 N Romano 1986 Created page with "Romano, Frank. ''Machine Writing and Typesetting: The story of Sholes and Mergenthaler and the invention of the typewriter and the linotype.'' GAMA, 1986. Sholes, printer and owner of newspapers “It was usual for newspapers to conduct a job printing department for additional income and, one year, the compositors on Sholes’ newspaper went on strike. This so angered Sholes that he gave serious thought to typesetting by machine. Being a tinkerer at heart, he built m..." current
- 21:5621:56, 19 January 2026 diff hist +173 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology current
- 20:1520:15, 19 January 2026 diff hist +518 Frankel 2009 No edit summary current
- 20:1420:14, 19 January 2026 diff hist +3,271 N Frankel 2009 Created page with "Frankel, Nicholas. ''Masking the Text: Essays on Literature and Mediation in the 1890s.'' Rivendale Press, 2009. == Intro == For considered in terms of its artistic productions, the 1890s was singularly preoccupied with "masking" its texts. "Small details of dress" are apparent on even some of the most prosaic productions of the decade — a decade when virtually no British book came to market without at least some pretensions to embody a designed or "decorated" entity..."
- 20:0820:08, 19 January 2026 diff hist +132 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology
22 October 2025
- 13:4813:48, 22 October 2025 diff hist +46,194 N Schleck 2022 Created page with "Schleck, Julia. ''Dirty Knowledge: Academic Freedom in the Age of Neoliberalism.'' University of Nebraska Press, 2022. == Prologue == …the clamor raised during such incidents has helped to obscure a true crisis in protected speech on university campuses—the profound loss of the protections designated by the term academic freedom, protections which were designed to defend the integrity of the knowledge produced and transmitted by university professors. This crisis i..." current
- 13:4213:42, 22 October 2025 diff hist +138 Main Page →Notes
9 October 2025
- 18:1618:16, 9 October 2025 diff hist +48,154 Beniger 1986 No edit summary current
- 14:2914:29, 9 October 2025 diff hist +198 Early computing devices →early mechanical calculating machines current
- 14:2314:23, 9 October 2025 diff hist +539 Early computing devices No edit summary
2 September 2025
- 20:0120:01, 2 September 2025 diff hist +10,119 Kahan 2000 No edit summary current
28 August 2025
- 21:2221:22, 28 August 2025 diff hist +3,499 Kahan 2000 No edit summary
- 20:0820:08, 28 August 2025 diff hist +86 N Kahan 2000 Created page with "Kahan, Basil. ''Ottmar Mergenthaler: The Man and His Machine.'' Oak Knoll Press, 2000."
- 20:0820:08, 28 August 2025 diff hist +104 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology
- 00:0100:01, 28 August 2025 diff hist +10,609 N Thoburn 2016 Created page with "Thoburn, Nicholas. ''Anti-Book'' (2016) Exploiting this function, Amazon Noir comprised a software script that would obtain a book’s entire text via repeated searches, substituting the last words of one search for the first words of the next. x Amazon Noir served to articulate the inequity of the privatization of the nonscarce resource of digital text, while taking advantage of the means by which the technological affordances of digital text are mobilized to excite..." current
- 00:0100:01, 28 August 2025 diff hist +137 Main Page →Book History
27 August 2025
- 23:5923:59, 27 August 2025 diff hist +13,136 N McIlwain 2020 Created page with "McIlwain, Charlton D. ''Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter.'' Oxford University Press, 2020. Black America dragged Jim Crow to its deathbed in the 1960s. Still, the nation’s elite science and engineering institutions—the ones that were developing the first digital computers—locked black Americans out of their ranks. Back in 1964, this moved scholars from talking merely about technologi- cal systems and relation..." current
- 23:5023:50, 27 August 2025 diff hist +166 Main Page →Software Studies
- 23:3723:37, 27 August 2025 diff hist +10,685 N Poovey 2008 Created page with "Poovey, Mary. ''Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. …it was not until Literature was declared to be a different kind of imaginative writing that a secular model of value completely at odds with the market model was articulated. When this occurred, Literary writing gave up its claim to be valuable in the old sense, precisely by insisting that it was more valuable in a..." current
- 23:3523:35, 27 August 2025 diff hist −5 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 23:3523:35, 27 August 2025 diff hist +178 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
- 23:3323:33, 27 August 2025 diff hist +31,261 N Hacking 1990 Created page with "Hacking, Ian. ''The Taming of Chance.'' Cambridge University Press, 1990. During the nineteenth century it became possible to see that the world might be regular and yet not subject to universal laws of nature. A space was cleared for chance. Page 14 Something else was pervasive and every- body came to know about it: the enumeration of people and their habits. Society became statistical. Page 14 A new type of law came into being, analogous to the laws of nature, bu..." current
- 23:3323:33, 27 August 2025 diff hist +93 Main Page →History of Computing / Information
20 August 2025
- 23:1923:19, 20 August 2025 diff hist +1,398 Park, Jankowski and Jones 2011 No edit summary current
- 19:1519:15, 20 August 2025 diff hist +24,076 N Bryan-Wilson 2017 Created page with "Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Fray: Art + Textile Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2017. == Introduction == What does it mean to imagine the sewing needle as a dangerous tool and to envision female collective textile making as a process that might upend conventions, threaten state structures, or wreak political havoc? An article on the Republican Party national field director Maxene Fernstrom from 1981 recounts that “she turns heads when she bursts into a room wearing..." current
- 19:1119:11, 20 August 2025 diff hist +133 Main Page →Shakespeare
- 19:0919:09, 20 August 2025 diff hist +10,245 N Graziano 2025 Created page with "Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak. ''Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity.'' Pluto Press, 2025. rather than the hypermasculine ideal of a swashbuck- ler, we want to refocus attention on the pirate as a disabled worker (with the eye patch, hook hand, peg leg) cultivating rebellious forms of solidarity and care. When pirates seized a ship that would other- wise almost certainly have been their coffin, they were appropriating the pin..." current
- 19:0719:07, 20 August 2025 diff hist +155 Main Page →Notes
- 19:0419:04, 20 August 2025 diff hist +5,689 Telegraphy No edit summary current
- 19:0019:00, 20 August 2025 diff hist +23,954 N Menke 2019 Created page with "Menke, Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 (2019) Introduction: Inventing Media and Their Meanings - The Phonautograph and Nineteenth-Century Media The phonautograph and its successors were a landmark in the study of sound. But their inventor Léon Scott was no scientist or engineer. Rather, he came to imagine a machine for capturing sound because of his desire to optimize and automate the great medium of writing. As a printer and typesetter..." current
- 19:0019:00, 20 August 2025 diff hist +93 Main Page →19th Century Media & Technology