{"id":2764,"date":"2006-09-24T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/big-boys-book-of-big-things\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T17:30:26","slug":"big-boys-book-of-big-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/24\/big-boys-book-of-big-things\/","title":{"rendered":"big boy&#8217;s book of big things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas came early. With money from Carlyle, I bought a reproduction of Knight&#8217;s American Mechanical Dictionary, a three-tome work from the 1870s which catalogued mechanisms, devices and machinery known at the time. It&#8217;s the ultimate nerd read.<\/p>\n<p>You can browse two electronic versions online:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at <a href=\"http:\/\/images.umdl.umich.edu\/cgi\/i\/image\/image-idx?page=index;c=kdimg\">UMich<\/a>; large page images.<\/li>\n<li>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonimaging.com\/library\/mechanical-dictionary\/index.html\">Princeton Imaging<\/a>; in DjVu format, this is a little easier to read if you have the right plugin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have to say, though, that the dead tree version is a splendid read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas came early. With money from Carlyle, I bought a reproduction of Knight&#8217;s American Mechanical Dictionary, a three-tome work from the 1870s which catalogued mechanisms, devices and machinery known at the time. It&#8217;s the ultimate nerd read. You can browse two electronic versions online: at UMich; large page images. at Princeton Imaging; in DjVu format, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[908,358,85,481,1050,1010,1113,262,114,269,1396,1071,184,1412,1269],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-70s","tag-book","tag-car","tag-cat","tag-christmas","tag-dictionary","tag-ice","tag-images","tag-library","tag-mac","tag-money","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-tree","tag-ugh"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-IA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}