TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomas,David
TI  - Beyond the image machine: a history of visual technologies 
T2  - Technologies : studies in culture and theory
SN  - 0826462723
AV  - QA76.575 T56 2004 
U1  - 006.7 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Multimedia systems
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1; Pictures of the new and materialization of vision from the age of discover to the era of posthuman --; Ch. 2; The materialization of sentience : the dynamo and the virgin --; Ch. 3; The incubator : Niepce's heliographic imprint of 1826 --; Ch. 4; Reimaging the computer's origins : mechanical drawing and Charles Babbage's calculating engines --; Ch. 5; Alternate models of the virtual : optical thresholds in camera lucidas and head-mounted displays --; Ch. 6; Beyond the cyborg : Antonio Panizzi's 1852 diagram of a circular reading room at the British Museum --; Ch. 7; Unorthodox time machines : images and instruments across space, time and history
ER  -