Paper Machines About Cards and Catalogs, 1548-1929

Name: Paper Machines About Cards and Catalogs, 1548-1929
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ISBN: 9780262015899

ISBN-10: 0262015897

ISBN-13: 9780262015899

Edition: 2011

Authors: Markus Krajewski, Peter Krapp

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Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that became ubiquitous in offices between the world wars. The story begins with Konrad Gessner, a sixteenth-century Swiss polymath who described a new method of processing data: to cut up a sheet of handwritten notes into slips of paper, with one fact or topic per slip, and arrange as desired. In the late eighteenth century, the card catalog became the librarian's answer to the threat of information overload. Then, at…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/19/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.31" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English

William R. Uttal is Professor Emeritus (Engineering) at Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus (Psychology) at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including The New Phrenology: On the Localization of Cognitive Processes in the Brain (MIT Press).Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. He is a developer of the bibliographic software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index (www.verzetteln.de/synapsen)




From Library Guides to the Bureaucratic Era: An Introduction



Temporary Indexing



Around 1800



The First Card Index?


Addressing Ideas


Data Streams


Copy Error: The Josephinian Card Index


Floods


Canals


The Algorithm


Error: Buffer Overflow


Paper Flow: Taming, Duration


Revolution on Playing Cards



Thinking in Boxes


The Scholar's Machine


Genealogy: Johann Jacob Moser and Jean Paul


Elsewhere


Banknotes


Balance Sheet


In Praise of the Cross-Reference


On the Gradual Manufacturing of Thoughts in Storage



American Arrival


Do Not Disturb



Early Fruits and Dissemination



Around 1900



Institutional Technology Transfer


Reformation: Dewey's Three Blessings for America


Transfer; Library Bureau


Library Supplies


Standardization


Corporate Genealogy


The Transfer


Product / System / Manufacturing


Digression: Foreign Laurels


Industry Strategy



Transatlantic Technology Transfer


Supplying Library Supplies


The Library Ge-stell


Punch Card


The Bridge Enters the Office: World Brain



Paper Slip Economy


System/Organization


Universal / Card / Machine


Invalidation


The War of the Cards: Copyrighting the "Card Index"™


Depiction / Decision


Summary: Order / Cleanup


Afterword to the English Edition


Notes


References


Index