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Living with Machines
Computational Histories of the Age of Industry
by Ruth AhnertEmma GriffinJon LawrenceThe Living with Machines Team
Living With Machines is a data-driven history of the coming of the machine age in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Featuring an innovative open access edition enhanced with interactive maps, datasets and visualisations, digital notebooks, video, audio and images, this book harnesses the combined power of massive digitised historical collections and computational analytical tools to examine the ways in which technology altered the very fabric of human existence on a hitherto unprecedented scale.
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Chapter 4 is currently under review and not available to view at the moment. Early versions of the Introduction, Chapter 3 and Chapter 5 are now available to view.
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Suggested citation format: [Chapter authors], [‘Chapter title’]. To be published in Living With Machines: Computational Histories of the Age of Industry edited by Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin, Jon Lawrence. Written by the Living With Machines Team. University of London Press. [Pre-review version]. Available from https://doi.org/10.14296/xdyp6338. [Date accessed].
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IntroductionWorking with Machines
by Ruth Ahnert, Emma Griffin, Jon Lawrence- This text has 104 annotations
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Chapter 3: Beyond the TracksRe-connecting people, places and stations in the history of late-Victorian railways
by Joshua Rhodes, Jon Lawrence, Kaspar Beelen, Katherine McDonough, Daniel Wilson- This text has 43 annotations
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Chapter 5: Analysing the language of mechanisation in nineteenth-century British newspapers
by Barbara McGillivray, Nilo Pedrazzini, Arianna Ciula, Jon Lawrence, Tiffany Ong, Mia Ridge, Miguel Vieira- This text has 37 annotations
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Chapter 4: Links in the chainWorkers in the British bicycle boom, as seen from the England and Wales census, 1881-1911
by Guy Solomon, Emma Griffin, Timothy Hobson, Sherman Lo, Joshua Rhodes, Daniel Wilson, Jon Lawrence- This text has 54 annotations
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- publisherUniversity of London
- publisher placeLondon
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