Datasets created through crowdsourcing tasks created on the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform by the Living with Machines ‘language of mechanisation’ project team. Building on earlier work classifying machines by function, we asked volunteers on Zooniverse 'how did the word x change over time and place?' and presented them with options for classifying the words coach, car, trolley, and bike with specific historical meanings from the Oxford English Dictionary. We chose these words because we thought they would yield interesting insights into changes in language over time. This dataset contains JSON files created for use in an Observable Notebook designed for visualisation and analysis by King's Digital Lab (Miguel Vieira, Tiffany Ong and Arianna Ciula) in collaboration with members of the Living with Machines project team (including Barbara McGillivray, Nilo Pedrazzini, Giorgia Tolfo, Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kalle Westerling and Mia Ridge).
