2013 Usher Prize for “The Moveable Typewriter”
The Society for the History of Technology has awarded Stanford historian Tom Mullaney the 2013 Usher prize for the best scholarly work...
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Chinese Moveable Type at the Beijing Olympics: What Did It Say?
During the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics, audiences around the world bore witness to what appeared at first to be an animatronic...
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Tchotchkes and 3D Printers – What Gives?
Count me in: I am entranced by 3D printing. When future historians reflect upon the 21st century, the invention and consumerization of 3D...
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New review of “Critical Han Studies”
Alison Groppe of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Oregon has published a review of Critical Han...
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Desperately Seeking IBM’s Eugen Buhler and Chris Berry
In 1946, two engineers at IBM – Eugen Buhler and Christopher A. Berry – filed a patent entitled “Machine Adapted for...
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ICAS 2013 Book Prize Long List
My first book Coming to Terms with the Nation was short-listed for the 2013 ICAS book prize. Final notification to come some time this...
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