Index of topics
p. 149-153
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Aachen, 51
abacus, 115
abjad, 12
abugida, 11
account number, 73
address, 31, 71
administrators, 19
algorithm, 16
almanac, 66
alphabet, 10, 27, 49
consonant, 12
analogue, 79
Analytical Engine, 118
ANSI, 53
Arabic alphabet, 53
Arabic numbers, 13
architecture, 97
arithmetic, 16
ASCII, 53, 110, 130
astronomy, 65
at sign (@), 60
Australia, 100
author index, 70
Babylon, 65
Baghdad, 37
Barīd, 20
BCD (binary coded decimal), 120
binary numbers, 120
binocular vision, 83, 95
bit, 54, 120
Bletchley Park, 136, 138
blueprint, 43
bombe, 140
broadcast, 35
calculation, 115
calculator
keyboard, 117
calendar
Gregorian, 66
Julian, 66
calotype, 79
camera, 75
cine, 82
Carolingian minuscule, 51
cartography, 98
catalogue of stars, 65
CD, 80
census, 67, 123
Chapar Khaneh, 20
character, 10, 27
character case, 61
character code, 52
China, 35, 37, 39, 132
Chinese characters, 39, 53, 59, 61
Chinese writing, 11
church, Christian, 35, 42, 66
cinema, 41
cipher, 132
Alberti disk, 136
Lorentz, 140
one-time pad, 135
public key, 139
substitution, 132
Vigenère, 133
clay tablet, 18, 37
code-breaking, 132
Colossus, 140
colour, 82
additive, 92
physics of, 91
physiology of, 91
primary, 82
subtractive, 92
communication, 17
comptometer, 117
computability, 119
computer games, 108
computers, 73
Computus, 66
copying books, 38
cryptography, 132
cubism, 102
Cursus Publicus, 19
daguerreotype, 78
data, 2, 129
catalogue, 69
forms, 70
data processing, 73, 125
database, 73, 125
decryption, 132
Difference Engine, 118
digital/analogue, 79
Domesday book, 68
dummy head recording, 90
Dvorak keyboard, 57
Easter, 66
EBCDIC, 53, 130
Egypt, 18, 67, 100
Egyptian writing, 9
electricity, 27
Elizabethan theatre, 42
email, 31
encryption, 131
Enigma, 136
Europe, 102
facsimile, 84
fire, 37
first world war, 24
forms, 70
Germany, 138
Gilgamesh, 37
government, 20
GPO Film Unit, 146
great circle, 100
Greece, 42, 51, 68, 100, 109, 112
Greek alphabet, 53
Greek writing, 12
Greenland, 100
Greenwich, 108
halftone, 84
Harvard Mark 1, 141
Hindu numbers, see Arabic numbers
history, 68
Holy Roman empire, 21
House of Wisdom, 15, 120
IBM, 126
IBM golf-ball typewriter, 58
image, 111
3D, 83, 95
information, 5
information technology, 3
international post, 22
Ireland, 50
Italy, 97
Jacquard loom, 78
Japan, 102, 132
Japanese characters, 53
hiragana, 12
Japanese writing, 11
keyboard, 29, 54
language, 6
language instinct, 6
Latin, 50
lenses, 107
letter of the alphabet, see
character
letter writing, 23
library, 36, 69
Alexandria, 37
House of Wisdom, 37
monastery, 37
library catalogue, 69
library classification, 69
ligature, 62
light
monochromatic, 91
spectrum of, 91
lightbulbs, 91
literacy, 23, 36
log tables, 116
logarithms, 116
London, 21, 23, 72
mail train, 24
mailing list, 46
medium, 18
message, 17
messenger, 17
metadata, 69
microphone, 80
MIDI, 113
monastery, 38
Morse code, 27, 52
mosaic, 75
music, 112, 113
musical score, 51, 109
navigation, 66, 100
Nineveh, 36
number, 13
Arabic/Hindu system, 13, 15
Greek systems, 14
Roman system, 14
offset lithography, 44
papyrus, 18, 37
Parkinson’s Law, 4
Penny Post, 22
perspective, 97
Phoenician writing, 12
phoneme, 11
photocopying, 43
photography, 78
photostat, 43
piano roll, 129
pictures, 75
pixel, 75
pointillism, 76
political rally, 42
post, 17
Post Office, 24
postal system, 20
postcode, 72
poster, 35
printing, 39
processing information, 54
proclamation, 35
programming, 118
projection
Mercator, 100
parallel, 98
Public Key Cryptography, 139
publishing, 40
pulpit, 35
pulse code modulation, 80
punched cards, 77, 119, 123
punctuation, 51, 60
QWERTY keyboard, 127
radio, 30, 35
raster, 85
recipient, 18
Remington, 55, 127
Renaissance, 97
residence, 68
revolution, 1, 144
road, 19
Rome, 18, 50, 68
Russian alphabet, 53
satellite navigation, 72
science, 3
shift key, 61
slide rule, 116
sodium lamp, 91
soldiers, 19
sound, 79
binaural, 90
stereo, 80, 89
spaces between words, 50
stereoscope, 83
syllabary, 10
syllable, 10
tabulation, 123
tabulator, 124
tax, 67
technology, 3
telegraph, 27
printing, 29
telephone, 30
telephone exchange, 30
telephone number, 30
television, 35, 85
text messaging, 32
three-colour theory, 92
Thurn und Taxis, 21
Times, 23
tonal perspective, 95
tradesmen, 19
two’s complement, 121
typewriter, 29, 55, 128
unicode, 53
Universal Postal Union, 22
vanishing point, 98
vector graphics, 113
vowels, 12, 62
wax stencil duplication, 43
weaving, 76
Wikipedia, 145
word, 8
writing, 7
xerography, 43
Zoopraxiscope, 82

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