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Faxed : The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421415925
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: FaxedDDC classification:
  • 621.382/35
LOC classification:
  • TK6710 -- .C667 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 First Patent to First World War, 1843-1918 -- 2 First Markets, 1918-1939 -- 3 Facsimile, 1939-1965 -- 4 The Sleeping Giant Stirs, 1965-1980 -- 5 The Giant Awakes, 1980-1995 -- 6 The Fax and the Computer -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Written in accessible language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market pull, user-based innovation, and "blackboxing" (the packaging of complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices) while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly passé.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 First Patent to First World War, 1843-1918 -- 2 First Markets, 1918-1939 -- 3 Facsimile, 1939-1965 -- 4 The Sleeping Giant Stirs, 1965-1980 -- 5 The Giant Awakes, 1980-1995 -- 6 The Fax and the Computer -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Written in accessible language that should appeal to engineers and policymakers as well as historians, Faxed explores themes of technology push and market pull, user-based innovation, and "blackboxing" (the packaging of complex skills and technologies into packages designed for novices) while revealing the inventions inspired by the fax, how the demand for fax machines eventually caught up with their availability, and why subsequent shifts in user preferences rendered them mostly passé.

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