Corn, Joseph J. <br/><br/>
User unfriendly :  consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / 
Joseph J. Corn. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  2011. 
 - 272 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index. 
<br/><br/>Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments 
<br/><br/> "Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. ... Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."--Dust jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781421401928 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421401924 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010051494 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technological innovations--United States.<br/>Human-machine systems--Social aspects.<br/>Human-computer interaction.<br/>Consumer satisfaction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T173.8  / .C685 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.48/30973