ISBN:
0585344779
,
9780585344775
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 362 p
,
ill., map
,
24 cm
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Technology Social aspects
;
United States
;
Technology History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Technology History
;
20th century
;
United States
;
Sublime, The
;
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-354) and index
,
Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2001
