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Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects

By Barbara Penner

Book information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781789144529
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26696267 bytes)
Pages
\391
Time added
2022-06-14 00:35:12

Description

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Acoustic Location Device Action Office Acoustic Area Conditioner: The ‘Maskitball’ Air-curtain Roof All-plastic House Arsenic Wallpaper Arundel Print Asbestos-cement Rondavel Ashtray Atmospheric Railway Cab-fare Map Central Heating Chaparral 2J: The ‘Sucker Car’ Chatelaine The Clapper Close-constraint Key Concorde ConvAirCar Cybernetic Anthropomorphic Machines Cybersyn Cyclegraph Cyclops 1 Dougong Dymaxion House Edison’s Anti-gravitation Under-clothing Electrotype Pattern Fisher-Price Peg Figures Flashcube Flying Boat Glass Lantern Slide Globe of Mars High-pressure Water Mains House Environment ‘Hummingbird’ Taxi Incandescent Light Bulb Integrated Radio/TV Cabinet Invacar: The ‘Invalid Carriage’ Kodachrome Letraset Leucotome Manchester Pail System: ‘Dolly Vardens’ Mechanical Polygraph Medical Wax Model Memo Milk Spoon MiniDisc Minitel Moon Towers Nikini ‘No Nonsense’ Fountain Pen North Bucks Monorail City Notgeld Oil from Coal Optical Telegraph Paper Aeroplane Ticket Paper Dress Pasilalinic-sympathetic Compass Phase-change Chemical Heat-storage Barrel Player Piano Pneumatic Postal System Polaroid SX-70 Public Standards of Length Pyrophone Realistic Wax Mannequin Rotring, Letratone, MiniCAD Scaphander: ‘Man-boat’ Scarificator Serving Hatch Sinclair C5 Skirt Grip Slide Rule Slotted Screwdriver Space Frame Stanley 55 Combination Plane Telephone Table Teletype Théâtrophone Think City Electric Vehicle Trombe Wall T-shirt Plastic Bag Ultratemp® Roasting Rack UV-radiated Artificial Beach Vertical Filing Cabinet Water Bag Writing Case Zeppelin Biographies References and Further Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements

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