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The Grid Book

• Author(s): Hannah B Higgins

• Categories: Design

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2009-01-23
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• Publisher: MIT Press

Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. Emblematic of modernity, the grid is the underlying form of everything from skyscrapers and office cubicles to paintings by Mondrian and a piece of computer code. And yet, as Hannah Higgins makes clear in this engaging and evocative book, the grid has a history that long predates modernity; it is the most prominent visual structure in Western culture. In The Grid Book, Higgins examines the history of ten grids that changed the world: the brick, the tablet, the gridiron city plan, the map, musical notation, the ledger, the screen, moveable type, the manufactured box, and th...

Frederick Lillywhite's Cricket scores and Biographies, from 1746 to 1826 (1841 to 1848). [Compiled by A. Haygarth]. [Continued as] Arthur Haygarth's Cricket scores and biographies from 1855 to

• Author(s): Frederick Lillywhite

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1879
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register

• Author(s): United States Civil Service Commission

• Categories: Government executives

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1881
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Journal of the Household Brigade for the Year 1862-1880

• Author(s): I. E. A. Dolby

• Categories: Great Britain

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1872
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1897
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• Publisher: Unknown

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