Inventing modern :: growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins /
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, skyscraper...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423784278 9781423784272 1280532580 9781280532580 9780198036364 0198036361 9780195160321 0195160320 9786610532582 6610532583 |
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| spelling | Lienhard, John H., 1930- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpPGC8XjWjqVVyK4TQQbd http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80065664 Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index. 1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny -- Short-lived technologies : searching for direction -- "The irruption of forces totally new" -- A new genus of genius -- Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe -- Fires and the high-rise Phoenix -- The titan city -- Automobile -- On the road : of highways and gasoline -- The back door into the sky -- Flying down to Rio -- A boy's life in the new century -- Inventing a better mousetrap -- War -- A funeral in the fifties -- After modern. Print version record. 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. English. Lienhard, John H., 1930- Childhood and youth. Lienhard, John H., 1930- fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpPGC8XjWjqVVyK4TQQbd Technological innovations Social aspects United States History 20th century. Technology Social aspects United States History 20th century. Science Social aspects United States History 20th century. Material culture Social aspects United States History 20th century. United States Civilization 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942 Innovations Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle. Sciences Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle. Culture matérielle Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle. États-Unis Civilisation 20e siècle. SCIENCE Philosophy & Social Aspects. bisacsh TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Social Aspects. bisacsh Childhood and youth of a person fast Civilization fast Material culture Social aspects fast Science Social aspects fast Technological innovations Social aspects fast Technology Social aspects fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq 1900-1999 fast History fast Print version: Lienhard, John H., 1930- Inventing modern. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003 (DLC) 2002156634 OUP E-Books. FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=161218 Volltext |
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