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History of Computing and Telecommunications
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- Bowen, J onathan. Virtual museum of computing.
- Brock, G. W. The history of the telegraph: The telecommunications industry.
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- Eby, Chuck. Telephone history web site.
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- Kidder, Tracy. (1981). The soul of a new machine. NY: Avon Books.
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- Lubar, Steven. (1993). Infoculture: The Smithsonian book of information age inventions. NY: Houghton Mifflin.
- Museum of obsolete computers
- Winston, Brian. (1998). Media technology and society a history : From the telegraph to the Internet. NY: Routledge.
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History of Copying
- Rhodes, Barbara and Streeter, William Wells. (1999). Before photocopying: The art & history of mechanical copying, 1780-1938. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press.
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History of Libraries
- Buckland, Michael and Bellardo-Hahn, Trudi. (1997, April, September). History of documentation and information science. Part I and II. Journal of American Society for Information Science, 48.
- Cole, John. Y. (1991, April 8). Jefferson's legacy: A brief history of the library. LC Information Bulletin, 50 (7), 124-130.
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History of Television
Barnouw, Erik. (1975). Tube of plenty: the evolution of American television. NY: Oxford University Press.
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