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. In the same vein, if you know of one in another language I'd also appreciate it.Also, 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).An identical post to this recently slid as I forgot to bump in time, overestimating the rate at which /wsr/ has slowed down post-hack (my bad), but in reply to that, one anon posted a book that's related more generally so if anyone's interested that it can be found here: https://archive.palanq.win/wsr/thread/1539453/#q1539483
eh the best i can do is Connections (I found the series nice and the companion book is probably just as good)it's a fairly brisk walk through technological history, avoiding the well-trodden paths. It looks mostly at mechanical/chemical stuff. Some concrete examples that they touch on is the pre-industrial mechanization of paper making, coal gas, chimneys, early grandather clock designs etc.The series doesn't touch on civil engineering stuff or organisational philosophy stuff, so the remarkable pre-computer scenes of censuses and national banks were skipped over. It also doesn't cover mundane, domestic day-to-day technology as much
>>1540629>so the remarkable pre-computer scenes of censuses and national banks were skipped overWhat are you referring to? What came to mind to me were massive libraries and filing methods or stuff like teletype or paper-tape punching cards/rolls for information transfer/logging.Thanks.
>>1541057I guess this is a room for engineer drawings? apparently the double checker would go from one drawing to the next, checking it all off https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/511034709/#q511037728
Ultimately I'm talking pre-teletype and paper tape, but maybe they've always had some mechanical help. I know nothing about the topic.This is the bank of england calculating interest i guess. Buncha clerks crunching numbers.I was gonna also add another tidbit but it seems like it is just plain wrong. I was going to (incorrectly) say that 19th century librarians devised the quicksort procedure to sort large collections. (Turns out these kind of recursive procedures were first thought of by computer scientists in the 20th century)
>>1541093glad that ddos was overLooks like 4chan doesn't like a filename that's too long
>>1541094nvm i guess the file was corrupted
>>1541377That's a nice image. Thank you for sharing
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>>1540306arthur firstenberg - the invisible rainbow.a book about electricity and its health effectsfind it on soulseek>>1541377cool
>>1543822i this a game? looks comfy
i like your style OP, cities and all, maybe rar it up and upload it to mediafire or something?>>1540306
>>1543905Most of it is unsorted and in the main download folder , but you might find some more here where all my sfw booru downloads are supposed to go: https://gofile.io/d/Cc45rN>>1543897Thanks.
