Inventing the Modern World: Technology Since 1750: The Hulton Getty Picture Collection, Science & Society Picture Library
Bud, Robert, Simon Niziol, Timothy Boon & Andrew Nahum
Language: English
Published by DK Pubg (Dorling Kindersley), 2000
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1st Am. ptg. 224 pages; bibliography & index; 11.75" tall; heavy glossy paper; color & b/w photos & ils; brown cover with gilt lettering on spine; color photos on dust jacket.
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- Title
- Inventing the Modern World: Technology Since 1750: The Hulton Getty Picture Collection, Science & Society Picture Library
- Author
- Bud, Robert, Simon Niziol, Timothy Boon & Andrew Nahum
- Publisher
- DK Pubg (Dorling Kindersley)
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Book Type
- Hardcover (dj)
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 078946828X
- ISBN 13
- 9780789468284
- Seller catalogs
- Science/Eng.,Computers/Technology
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The pages contain contemporary photographs of industrial conditions, shots of models and preserved technology, diagrams, and paintings showing the influence of manufacturing on fine art. Look at Charles Babbage's analytical engine, examine the first telephone directory and actuarial tables, and see the Concorde and the pill in their larger contexts. The book's second strength, after the richness of its images, is its transcendence of the notion that technology is use-neutral; napalm is mentioned alongside a war-resistance poster. This openness, far from sparking flames of neo-Luddism, rescues science from its see-no-evil defenders, who have sacrificed their credibility on the altar of denial. Who would have thought that a coffee-table book might raise consciousness? Inventing the Modern World can do just that, bringing pro- and anti-tech alike to a joint awareness of the dangerous poetics of machine organization. --Rob Lightner
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