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Reinventing the wheel : volvelles, equatoria, planispheres, fact-finders, gestational charts, perrigraphs, trouble shooters, deduct-o-graphs, at-a-glance disks, locators, word identifiers, vitaguides, calculators, aircraft spotters, profitometers, toy selectors, slide rulers, spell-spinners, first aid wheels, verb conjugators, wheels of knowledge, convertisors, circular interfaces, gauge dials, wheels of knowledge, quiz wheels, dynameters, semaphore finders, staroscopes, tube-testers, calendials, cal-q-lators / Jesssica Helfand.
Fine Arts Library N7431.5 .H45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helfand, Jessica.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Circle in art.
- Wheels in art.
- Penn Provenance:
- Grolier Club (donor) (RBC Ref. Coll. copy)
- Physical Description:
- 158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by Princeton Architectural Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- From circular mathematical slide rules to Captain Marvel phonetic decoders, "Reinventing The Wheel" demonstrates the astonishing range and remarkable utility of these ingenious "interactive" tools. 120 illustrations, 100 in color.
- Contents:
- Rotation: a brief history of the wheel
- Iteration: circular ephemera & the new century
- Speculation: modern revolutions.
- Notes:
- "A Winterhouse Edition."
- "Editor: Jennifer N. Thompson."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).
- ISBN:
- 1568983387 :
- OCLC:
- 48817585
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