Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers

Jennings, Humphrey

ISBN 10: 0333638379 / ISBN 13: 9780333638378

Published by Macmillan Pub Ltd, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen by Contemporary Observers
• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Ltd
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333638379
• ISBN 13: 9780333638378
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

This collection of writings is about the Industrial Revolution. The extracts are taken from diaries, letters, scientific reports and literature. Each piece sheds light on those that come before and after, as it measures how the human imagination experienced the Industrial Revolution.

About the Author

Humphrey Jennings was educated in Cambridge at school and at Pembroke College, where he read English. He joined the GPO Film Unit in 1934. In 1936 he, Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge founded Mass Observation, and in the same year he exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition. He is best known for the documentary films he made during the war. He died in 1950.