| Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold |  | Author: Merritt Ierley
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0609608363
Dewey Decimal Number: 609.73
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Publication Date: January 29, 2002
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"The great glory of the Americans is in their wondrous contrivances," wrote Anthony Trollope in 1862. Even then, new technologies seemed to annihilate time and space. The first scheduled train ride, at 15 mph, was described as flying "on the wings of the wind," and the first transatlantic telegraph message was celebrated as an event of biblical proportions. Merritt Ierley, who looked at the development of household devices in The Comforts of Home, chronicles the technologies that have transformed our lives in transportation, communications, and entertainment, from the bicycle to the passenger airline, the telephone to the Internet, and the magic lantern to the DVD. Along the way, he describes how Americans have responded to these succession of wonders and offers insights into our mastery of complexity and the uncanny way each invention has presaged the next. --Lesley Reed
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