Ideally, focused solely on the technology, not only as it pertains to what is used today but what was used in every era prior to today organized into a timeline of sorts. Alternatively books focusing more specifically on obsolete techology is also welcome. For the former, although I would like information pertaining to it's manufacture and it's purpose in the tech 'ecosystem' at the time, id prefer it not to delve too deeply into the surrounding background history of the invention beyond what is very relevant to it, so basically I'd rather not have the catalogue be interrupted by 10 pages trying to summarize why the societal conditions of belle epoch or the pax whatever facilated this or that which is thought to assist invention; at most a couple sentences talking about it's motivation. Of course, even if a book on the topic violates the above I'd still be grateful if you post it rather than not, simply stating the preference in case one knows multiple of such books.Similary, I'm curious if anyone's made a torrent with every patent ever published (or of a country in case that hasn't been done).
I want books like that also, but I don't really know many.Also learn the difference between "its" and "it's". Spelling mistakes like that immediately out you as an amateur writer.
>>1539453https://www.amazon.com/s?k=patent+historyhttps://www.amazon.com/s?k=technological+history>200 Years of American History The Rothschild Patent Model Collection consists of thousands of patent modelsJust go to amazon and search for related words and the recommended books
>>1539483No matter which way it's spelt it's an edge case as everywhere else would use an apostrophe to distinguish the possessive form the plural form, i.e "mothers rear" vs "mother's rear". However doing the same in the context of "it" causes it to overlap with the contraction of "it is", so then the question is whether you want to be grammatically inconsistent or avoid misunderstanding. Now English makes a good subconcious effort with it's spelling to avoid homonyms, and you could argue that "it" only ever refers to something singular meaning that since it being plural would be an oxymoron of sorts then it's clear it couldn't mean plural and thus clearly doesn't mean that, and regardless, avoiding the homonym is more "true" to the spirit of English. But the point is that I think it's contentious and which is technically correct I suppose depends on how english deals with other edge cases but regardless, I write that way out of habit and the above makes me not fret too much over it, though maybe I'd consider it more if I was writing a book. Also, speaking of languages made me think that if noone knows one in english but does in other languaes, then again, I'd be grateful if you post it anyways.A few months ago I came across this while reading wikipedia about something else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexikon_der_gesamten_Technik. I don't know german, and so can't confirm how much it aligns with what I ask in OP but with OCR I could maybe skim something from it after reading through what exists in english
>>1539531What the fuck is this ESL cope? There's no "edge cases". It's not "contentious". You're just wrong.
