L W Jones

Official Register of the United States

• Categories: United States

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1878
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Official Register of the United States

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Interior

• Categories: United States

• 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: 1878
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Final Supplement to the Environmental Impact Statement for an Amendment to the Pacific Northwest Regional Guide

• Author(s): United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region

• Categories: Forest management

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1988
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Reckoning with Matter

• Author(s): Matthew L. Jones

• Categories: Computers

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2016-11-29
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• Publisher: University of Chicago Press

"Reckoning with Matter" tells the story of early modern European calculating machines, from the early attempts of Blaise Pascal in the 1640s through Charles Babbage s efforts of the 1820s to 40s. All failed spectacularly. By exploring these failed technologies, Matthew L. Jones tracks diverse forms of technical life different social arrangements of practitioners, different legal conceptions of the ownership of work and ideas, and different philosophical conceptions of knowledge and skill. Philosophers, engineers, and craftspeople wrote about their distinctive competencies, about technical novelty, and about the best way to coordinate their efforts, and drawing on these remarkably well-preser...