The Fireside University of Modern Invention, Discovery, Industry and Art for Home Circle Study and Entertainment

The Fireside University of Modern Invention, Discovery, Industry and Art for Home Circle Study and Entertainment
Title The Fireside University of Modern Invention, Discovery, Industry and Art for Home Circle Study and Entertainment PDF eBook
Author John McGovern
Publisher
Pages 602
Release 1902
Genre Cooking
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Inventing Modern

Inventing Modern
Title Inventing Modern PDF eBook
Author John H. Lienhard
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 312
Release 2003-09-18
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 9780198036364

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Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road--Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles--lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood--the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise. Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence--a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.

The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909

The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909
Title The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909 PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 738
Release 1903
Genre American literature
ISBN

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The Annual American Catalog

The Annual American Catalog
Title The Annual American Catalog PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 998
Release 1904
Genre American literature
ISBN

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The United States Catalog

The United States Catalog
Title The United States Catalog PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 630
Release 1900
Genre American literature
ISBN

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The Annual American Catalogue Cumulated

The Annual American Catalogue Cumulated
Title The Annual American Catalogue Cumulated PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1022
Release 1903
Genre American literature
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The American Catalogue

The American Catalogue
Title The American Catalogue PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1310
Release 1905
Genre American literature
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