Index of topics
Aachen 5.1
abacus 10.1
abjad 1.6
abugida 1.6
account number 6.9
address 3.6, 6.8
administrators 2.3
algorithm 1.9
almanac 6.1
alphabet 1.6, 3.1, 5
consonant 1.6
analogue 7.3
Analytical Engine 10.4
ANSI 5.3
Arabic alphabet 5.3
Arabic numbers 1.7
architecture 9.1
arithmetic 1.9
ASCII 5.3, 9.10, 11.6
astronomy 6.1
at sign (@) 5.9
Australia 9.2
author index 6.6
Babylon 6.1
Baghdad 4.1
Barı̄d 2.4
BCD (binary coded decimal) 10.7
binary numbers 10.7
binocular vision 7.7, 8.7
bit 5.4, 10.7
Bletchley Park 12.4, 12.6
blueprint 4.8
bombe 12.8
broadcast 4
calculation 10
calculator
keyboard 10.3
calendar
Gregorian 6.2
Julian 6.2
calotype 7.3
camera 7
cine 7.5
Carolingian minuscule 5.1
cartography 9.2
catalogue of stars 6.1
CD 7.4
census 6.3, 11
Chapar Khaneh 2.4
character 1.6, 3.1
character case 5.9
character code 5.2
China 4, 4.2, 4.4, 12.2
Chinese characters 4.4, 5.3, 5.7, 5.9
Chinese writing 1.6
church, Christian 4, 4.6, 6.2
cinema 4.6
cipher
Alberti disk 12.4
Lorentz 12.8
one-time pad 12.3
public key 12.7
substitution 12.2
Vigenère 12.2
cipher 12.1
clay tablet 2.2, 4.2
code-breaking 12.1
Colossus 12.8
colour 7.6
additive 8.4
physics of 8.2
physiology of 8.3
primary 7.6
subtractive 8.4
communication 2
comptometer 10.3
computability 10.6
computer games 9.8
computers 6.9
Computus 6.1
copying books 4.3
cryptography 12.1
cubism 9.3
Cursus Publicus 2.4
daguerreotype 7.3
data 11.6, [Prologue]
catalogue 6.6
forms 6.7
data processing 6.9, 11.2
database 6.9, 11.3
decryption 12.1
Difference Engine 10.4
digital/analogue 7.3
Domesday book 6.4
dummy head recording 8.1
Dvorak keyboard 5.6
Easter 6.2
EBCDIC 5.3, 11.6
Egypt 2.2, 6.3, 9.3
Egyptian writing 1.5
electricity 3.1
Elizabethan theatre 4.6
email 3.6
encryption 12.1
Enigma 12.5
Europe 9.3
facsimile 7.8
fire 4.2
first world war 2.8
forms 6.7
Germany 12.6
Gilgamesh 4.2
government 2.5
GPO Film Unit [Bibliography]
great circle 9.2
Greece 4.6, 5.1, 6.5, 9.2, 9.3, 9.9, 9.12
Greek alphabet 5.3
Greek writing 1.6
Greenland 9.2
Greenwich 9.6
halftone 7.7
Harvard Mark 1 12.10
Hindu numbers
see Arabic numbers
history 6.4
Holy Roman empire 2.5
House of Wisdom 1.9, 10.6
IBM golf-ball typewriter 5.6
IBM 11.4
image 9.11
3D 7.7, 8.7
information 1.2
information technology 1.1
international post 2.7
Ireland 5.1
Italy 9
Jacquard loom 7.2
Japan 9.3, 12.2
Japanese characters 5.3
hiragana 1.6
Japanese writing 1.6
language instinct 1.3
language 1.3
Latin 5.1
lenses 9.6
letter of the alphabet
see character
letter writing 2.8
library 4.1, 6.5
Alexandria 4.1
House of Wisdom 4.1
monastery 4.1
library catalogue 6.6
library classification 6.6
ligature 5.9
light
monochromatic 8.2
spectrum of 8.2
lightbulbs 8.2
literacy 2.8, 4
log tables 10.2
logarithms 10.2
London 2.5, 2.8, 6.8
mail train 2.8
mailing list 4.10
medium 2.1
message 2
messenger 2.1
metadata 6.6
microphone 7.4
MIDI 9.13
monastery 4.3
Morse code 3.1, 5.2
mosaic 7.1
music 9.12, 9.13
musical score 5.1, 9.9
navigation 6.1, 9.2
Nineveh 4.1
number, 1.7
Arabic/Hindu system 1.7, 1.9
Greek systems 1.7
Roman system 1.7
offset lithography 4.8
papyrus 2.2, 4.2
Parkinson’s Law 1.1
Penny Post 2.5
perspective 9
Phoenician writing 1.6
phoneme 1.6
photocopying 4.8
photography 7.3
photostat 4.8
piano roll 11.6
pictures 7
pixel 7
pointillism 7.1
political rally 4.6
post 2
Post Office 2.8
postal system 2.4
postcode 6.8
poster 4
printing 4.4
processing information 5.4
proclamation 4
programming 10.4
projection
Mercator 9.2
parallel 9.1
Public Key Cryptography 12.7
publishing 4.4
pulpit 4
pulse code modulation 7.4
punched cards 7.2, 10.5, 11.1
punctuation 5.1, 5.9
QWERTY keyboard 11.4
radio 3.5, 4
raster 7.9
recipient 2.1
Remington 5.5, 11.4
Renaissance 9
residence 6.4
revolution [Prologue], [Epilogue]
road 2.2
Rome 2.2, 5.1, 6.4
Russian alphabet 5.3
satellite navigation 6.8
science 1.1
shift key 5.9
slide rule 10.2
sodium lamp 8.2
soldiers 2.3
sound 7.4
binaural 8.1
stereo 7.4, 8.1
spaces between words 5.1
stereoscope 7.7
syllabary 1.5
syllable 1.5
tabulation 11.1
tabulator 11.1
tax 6.3
technology 1.1
telegraph 3.1
printing 3.3
telephone 3.4
telephone exchange 3.4
telephone number 3.4
television 4, 7.9
text messaging 3.6
three-colour theory 8.4
Thurn und Taxis 2.5
Times 2.8
tonal perspective 8.7
tradesmen 2.3
two’s complement 10.7
typewriter 3.3, 5.5, 11.4
unicode 5.3
Universal Postal Union 2.7
vanishing point 9.1
vector graphics 9.13
vowels 1.6, 5.9
wax stencil duplication 4.8
weaving 7.2
Wikipedia [Bibliography]
word 1.5
writing 1.4
xerography 4.8
Zoopraxiscope 7.5