Ebook: Inside the machine: art and invention in the electronic age

The atom, the planet, and the tube -- Tubes that see : cathode-ray tubes -- Cold rock, warm life : crystals -- Transistors and circuit symbols -- Circuit boards and the matrix -- Automatic and digital : the emergence of computing -- Visible language -- The furthest horizon : space electronics -- Bionics, a prologue to transhumanism.;Traces the developments of the electronic age, providing a visual history of the 20th century's innovations that brought advancement in automation, bionics, computer language, and cybernetics.