Index of topics

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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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