Tag overview for: 'historictechnology'

Entries on this site with 'historictechnology'

  • Raster and Servant
    Nice history of early computer generated graphic art at the translab.  Love the web design too.
  • Nostalgic for the Future
    Popular Science has put up a huge archive covering the entire 137 year history of the magazine.  The navigation is rather crap at the moment (KW search only) but there's n
  • Tube Radio Plans
    A bunch of nice scans of old magazine plans for tube radios and some other misc circuits.  Some seem simple enough to try.  Great illustrations too.
  • Socialist Computing
    Article , in German, about the DDR (former East Germany) computer industry.  The slideshow has some fantastic photos, even if you can't read Deutsch.
  • Mechanical Copying and Parallel Motion
    Of several historic methods for copying documents, one of the oldest is the Pantograph .  The device finds its modern incantation in the Autopen device which is designed f

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