153634413     

042998875                        

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American technological sublime / David E. Nye

Nye, David E., 1946-

Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : MIT Press, 1994

XX, 362 S : Ill ; 24 cm

Englisch

The sublime -- The American sublime -- The railroad: the dynamic sublime -- Bridges and skyscrapers: the geometrical sublime -- The factory: from the pastoral mill to the industrial sublime -- The electrical sublime: the double of technology -- The electric cityscape: the unintended sublime -- Synthesis: the 1939 New York World'd fair -- Atomic bomb and Apollo XI:new forms of the dynamic sublime -- Rededicating the Statue of Liberty -- The consumer's sublime.

Literaturverz. S. [343] - 354

978-0-262-64034-3 (pbk.); 0-262-64034-1 (pbk.); 978-0-262-14056-0 (hbk.); 0-262-14056-X ( : $35.00)

94019273

b9512471, b94V6404

OCoLC: 831586037     

OCoLC: 30546317 (aus SWB)     

MS 4850  | ZG 9381      Ähnliche Literatur

T14.5

303.48/3 ; 306.0973 ; 303.483

Basisklassifikation: 50.01 (Technikgeschichte)

*USA ; Technikgeschichte <Fach> ; Techniksoziologie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Technology -- Social aspects -- United States ; Technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Sublime, The