Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future, Corn, Joseph J., Hor

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801853990
ISBN-13
9780801853999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1152805

Product Key Features

Book Title
Yesterday's Tomorrows : Past Visions of the American Future
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Future Studies, Modern / 20th Century, Popular Culture, History
Publication Year
1996
Illustrator
Yes
Features
Reprint
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Author
Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
Item Length
9.9 in
Item Width
7.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-051964
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
Whether it involves gleaming mega-cities, scudding unflawed skies or the inane advertising smile of a man who just loves his personal flying machine, watching Americans look forward is to look back. It is to look at ourselves in our most brilliant and boneheaded moments. Which is great fun. Here, moreover, the fun is enhanced by a cheerful... text and -- the real glory -- a wonderful abundance of visual material drawn from a Smithsonian traveling exhibit., ""Many books might be commended as entertaining, instructive, or even fascinating. Yesterday's Tomorrows deserves each of these adjectives... The reader is taken through a gallery populated with forgotten industrial prototypes, architectural models, toy ray guns, flying cavalrymen on 'helihorses,' science fiction props from Hollywood and, or course, all sorts of projects and renderings concerning transportation."", Many books might be commended as entertaining, instructive, or even fascinating. Yesterday's Tomorrows deserves each of these adjectives... The reader is taken through a gallery populated with forgotten industrial prototypes, architectural models, toy ray guns, flying cavalrymen on 'helihorses,' science fiction props from Hollywood and, or course, all sorts of projects and renderings concerning transportation., "Many books might be commended as entertaining, instructive, or even fascinating. Yesterday's Tomorrows deserves each of these adjectives... The reader is taken through a gallery populated with forgotten industrial prototypes, architectural models, toy ray guns, flying cavalrymen on 'helihorses,' science fiction props from Hollywood and, or course, all sorts of projects and renderings concerning transportation."-- Road and Track, Whether it involves gleaming mega-cities, scudding unflawed skies or the inane advertising smile of a man who just loves his personal flying machine, watching Americans look forward is to look back. It is to look at ourselves in our most brilliant and boneheaded moments. Which is great fun. Here, moreover, the fun is enhanced by a cheerful... text and-the real glory-a wonderful abundance of visual material drawn from a Smithsonian traveling exhibit., "Whether it involves gleaming mega-cities, scudding unflawed skies or the inane advertising smile of a man who just loves his personal flying machine, watching Americans look forward is to look back. It is to look at ourselves in our most brilliant and boneheaded moments. Which is great fun. Here, moreover, the fun is enhanced by a cheerful... text and -- the real glory -- a wonderful abundance of visual material drawn from a Smithsonian traveling exhibit."-- Boston Globe, Whether it involves gleaming mega-cities, scudding unflawed skies or the inane advertising smile of a man who just loves his personal flying machine, watching Americans look forward is to look back. It is to look at ourselves in our most brilliant and boneheaded moments. Which is great fun. Here, moreover, the fun is enhanced by a cheerful... text and--the real glory--a wonderful abundance of visual material drawn from a Smithsonian traveling exhibit.
Dewey Decimal
306/.0973
Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
Foreword Preface Chapter 1. Finding the Future Chapter 2. The Community of Tomorrow Chapter 3. The Home of Tomorrow Chapter 4. The Transportation of Tomorrow Chapter 5. The Weapons and Warfare of Tomorrow Epilogue Catalogue List Suggested Reading Index
Synopsis
Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go ''for weeks'' without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, ''hurricane-proof'' houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that ''a woman can do it in five minutes.'' Our wars will be fought by robots. And our ......, Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture--waterproof, of course--will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidence--and, at times, the naive faith--Americans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not. The authors draw on a wide variety of sources--popular-science magazines, science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future., Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go ''for weeks'' without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, ''hurricane-proof'' houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that ''a woman can do it in five minutes.'' Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture--waterproof, of course--will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in this century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidence--and, at times, the naive faith--Americans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not. The authors draw on a wide variety of sources--popular-science magazines, science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.
LC Classification Number
E169.1.C777 1996

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