| #2543680 in Books | The University of North Carolina Press | 1996-01-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x.82 x7.00l,1.46 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| enlightenment of technology-|By Timothy C. Ely|This is just an awesome book! I have not completed all of it yet for I keep finding the early chapters compelling enough to require some re-reading. Slows up the forward movement but all for the good! This is a book that all of the new practitioners [artists and writers] of the ''steampunk'' motif should also read as it fleshes ou|From Publishers Weekly|In this lengthy study, Boston Univ. English professor Tichi (author of New World, New Earth examines technology's impact on language, art and popular culture from the 1890s to the 1920s. During this period the professional engineer became
Shifting Gears is a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. From the 1890s to the 1920s machines and structures shaped by this technology emerged in many forms, from automobiles and harvesting machines to bridges and skyscrapers. The most casual onlooker to American life saw examples of the new technology on Main Street, on the local railway platform, and in the pages of popular magazines.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America | Cecelia Tichi. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
