Constant Touch: A Global History of the Mobile Phone - Rilegato

Agar, Jon

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ISBN 10: 1848315074 ISBN 13: 9781848315075

Casa editrice: Icon Books Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

Jon Agar takes the modern mobile phone to pieces, tracing what makes it work, and puts it together again, showing how it was shaped as a global basis. A truly world history of this everyday device which we take for granted.

Jon Agar is currently senior lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He is an expert on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards).

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Jon Agar is currently Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London and was previously director of the National Archive for the History of Computing. He is the author of Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond published by Polity Press, and the editor of the British Journal for the History of Science. He has appeared on BBC radio and BBC News in his capacity as an expert on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. He lives in London, England.

Jon Agar is currently Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at University College London and was previously director of the National Archive for the History of Computing.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Icon Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1848315074
• ISBN 13: 9781848315075
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile