Beyond the image machine : a history of visual technologies /: a history of visual technologies. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Tomas.
• Other Names: Tomas, David
• Contents: Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Thresholds Between Media and History; Chapter 1 Pictures of the New and the Materialization of Vision from the Age of Discovery to the Era of the Posthuman; Part 2: Reinventing Media Histories; Chapter 2 The Materialization of Sentience: The Dynamo and the Virgin; Chapter 3 The Incubator: Nipce's Heliographic Imprint of 1826; Chapter 4 Reimagining the Computer's Origins: Mechanical Drawing and Charles Babbage's Calculating Engines; Chapter 5 Alternate Models of the Virtual: Optical Thresholds in Camera Lucidas and Head-mounted Displays. Chapter 6 Beyond the Cyborg: Antonio Panizzi's 1852 Diagram for a Circular Reading Room at the British MuseumPart 3: Future Histories; Chapter 7 Unorthodox Time Machines: Images and Instruments across Space, Time and History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 006.7; Multimedia systems -- History; Information storage and retrieval systems; COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- General; COMPUTERS -- Web -- User Generated Content; COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Site Design; Information storage and retrieval systems; Multimedia systems; Histoire; Multimédia; Perception sensorielle; Représentation visuelle; Système de formation d'image; Waarneming; Technologie; Visuele middelen; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1847140815; 9781847140814; 9780826462732; 0826462731; 9781441187659; 1441187650; 1282452320; 9781282452329; 1472545508; 9781472545503; 9786612452321; 6612452323; 1281298786; 9781281298782; 9786611298784; 6611298789
• Related ISBNs: 9780826462725; 9781847140814; 0826462723; 0826462731
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.