Pandaemonium 1660-1886 - The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

Zusatztext ‘the strength of the book is the wide variety of texts used and the two excellent indexes. A good reference book and a useful source book for students of the machine age.’ Informationen zum Autor Humphrey Jennings was educated in Cambridge at school and at Pembroke College, where he read English. He joined the GPO Film Unit in 1934. In 1936 he, Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge founded Mass Observation, and in the same year he exhibited at the International Surrealist Exhibition. He is best known for the documentary films he made during the war. He died in 1950. Klappentext An extraordinary history of how the human imagination experienced the Industrial Revolution. Zusammenfassung An extraordinary history of how the human imagination experienced the Industrial Revolution.

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• Authors: Frank Cottrell Boyce, Humphrey Jennings, Marie-Louise Jennings, Jennings Humphrey
• Assisted by: Marie-Louise Jennings (Editor), Jennings Marie-Louise (Editor), Charles Madge (Editor), Frank Cottrell Boyce (Foreword), Cottrell Boyce Frank (Foreword)
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781848315853
• ISBN: 978-1-84831-585-3
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Impact of science and technology on society, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history