Author: Henry Clemens Pearson
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Category : Tires
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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Pneumatic Tires, Automobile, Truck, Airplane, Motorcycle, Bicycle
Author: Henry Clemens Pearson
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Category : Tires
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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Category : Tires
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles
Author: Steven E. Alford
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498528805
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture accounts for the nineteenth-century creation and development of two-wheeled vehicles, both human-powered and motorized. Specifically, the book focuses on the period from 1885 (which saw the appearance, simultaneously, of the Safety bicycle and the Einspur, the first motorcycle) to 1920, while exploring implications for later bicycling and motorcycling. We argue that invention of these vehicles, rather than the product of gifted individuals, should be seen as the consequence of a number of historical, economic, cultural and political forces that intersect so unpredictably that the notion of a genius inventor is reductive. The common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle oversimplifies both the technology and its origins. Stripping the vehicles of all their material and cultural associations, such a model fails to advance our understanding of the devices, their creators, and their riders. Taking a contemporary vehicle and tracing its lineage creates a false sense of evolutionary necessity in its creation, and fails to account for the many possible developmental paths that were, for whatever reason, abandoned. By contrast, our book adopts a material culture approach, a form of inquiry that stresses the connections between artifacts and social relations. We consider not simply the bicycle and motorcycle as material objects but focus also on the complex socio-political and economic convergences that produced the materials, materials that in turn themselves shaped the vehicles’ appearance, function, and adoption by riders.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498528805
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
An Alternative History of Bicycles and Motorcycles: Two-Wheeled Transportation and Material Culture accounts for the nineteenth-century creation and development of two-wheeled vehicles, both human-powered and motorized. Specifically, the book focuses on the period from 1885 (which saw the appearance, simultaneously, of the Safety bicycle and the Einspur, the first motorcycle) to 1920, while exploring implications for later bicycling and motorcycling. We argue that invention of these vehicles, rather than the product of gifted individuals, should be seen as the consequence of a number of historical, economic, cultural and political forces that intersect so unpredictably that the notion of a genius inventor is reductive. The common evolutionary model of development from the bicycle to the motorcycle oversimplifies both the technology and its origins. Stripping the vehicles of all their material and cultural associations, such a model fails to advance our understanding of the devices, their creators, and their riders. Taking a contemporary vehicle and tracing its lineage creates a false sense of evolutionary necessity in its creation, and fails to account for the many possible developmental paths that were, for whatever reason, abandoned. By contrast, our book adopts a material culture approach, a form of inquiry that stresses the connections between artifacts and social relations. We consider not simply the bicycle and motorcycle as material objects but focus also on the complex socio-political and economic convergences that produced the materials, materials that in turn themselves shaped the vehicles’ appearance, function, and adoption by riders.
The Electric Vehicle
Author: Gijs Mom
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421409704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
One hopes, as a new generation of electric vehicles becomes a reality, The Electric Vehicle offers a long-overdue reassessment of the place of this technology in the history of street transportation.
The United States Catalog
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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USITC Publication
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Manufacturing and Mining
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Publisher: Bureau of Census
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Provides statistical data on the principal products and services of the manufacturing and mining industries in the United States.
Publisher: Bureau of Census
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Provides statistical data on the principal products and services of the manufacturing and mining industries in the United States.
2002 Economic Census
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Chemical and Rubber
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Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Category : Chemical industry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry
Author: Stephen Nugent
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351717944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351717944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and North America, emphasizing the links between the social landscape of Amazonia and the global economy. Through a critical examination focused on the rubber industry, Nugent addresses myths that continue to influence perceptions of Amazonia. The book challenges widely held assumptions about the hyper-naturalism of the ‘lost world’ of the Amazon where ‘the challenge of the tropics’ is still to be faced and the ‘frontiers of development’ are still to be settled. It is relevant for students and scholars of anthropology, Latin American studies, history, political ecology, geography and development studies.