Author: United States. Bureau of International Commerce
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Trade List Catalog
Author: United States. Bureau of International Commerce
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Tinkering
Author: Kathleen Franz
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201930
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In the first decades after mass production, between 1913 and 1939, middle-class Americans not only bought cars but also enthusiastically redesigned them. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, advice experts, and consumers in various guises. Franz argues that automobile ownership opened new possibilities for ingenuity among consumers even as large corporations came to control innovation. Franz weaves together a variety of sources, from serial fiction to corporate documents, to explore tinkering as a form of authority in a culture that valued ingenuity. Women drivers represented one group of consumers who used tinkering to advance their claim to social autonomy. Some canny drivers moved beyond modifying their individual cars to become independent inventors, patenting and selling automotive accessories for the burgeoning national demand for aftermarket products. Earl S. Tupper was one such tinkerer who went on to invent Tupperware. These savvy tinkerers worked in a changing landscape of invention shaped increasingly by automotive giants. By the 1930s, Ford and General Motors worked to change the popular discourse of ingenuity and used the world's fairs of the Depression as a stage to promote a hierarchy of innovation. Franz not only demonstrates the entrepreneurial spirit of American consumers but she engages larger historical questions about gender, consumption and ingenuity while charting the impact corporate expansion on tinkering during the first half of the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201930
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In the first decades after mass production, between 1913 and 1939, middle-class Americans not only bought cars but also enthusiastically redesigned them. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, advice experts, and consumers in various guises. Franz argues that automobile ownership opened new possibilities for ingenuity among consumers even as large corporations came to control innovation. Franz weaves together a variety of sources, from serial fiction to corporate documents, to explore tinkering as a form of authority in a culture that valued ingenuity. Women drivers represented one group of consumers who used tinkering to advance their claim to social autonomy. Some canny drivers moved beyond modifying their individual cars to become independent inventors, patenting and selling automotive accessories for the burgeoning national demand for aftermarket products. Earl S. Tupper was one such tinkerer who went on to invent Tupperware. These savvy tinkerers worked in a changing landscape of invention shaped increasingly by automotive giants. By the 1930s, Ford and General Motors worked to change the popular discourse of ingenuity and used the world's fairs of the Depression as a stage to promote a hierarchy of innovation. Franz not only demonstrates the entrepreneurial spirit of American consumers but she engages larger historical questions about gender, consumption and ingenuity while charting the impact corporate expansion on tinkering during the first half of the twentieth century.
Automotive Industries
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Vols. for 1919- include an Annual statistical issue (title varies).
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Vols. for 1919- include an Annual statistical issue (title varies).
Business America
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Includes articles on international business opportunities.
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Includes articles on international business opportunities.
American Machinist & Automated Manufacturing
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Motor Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Iron Trade and Western Machinist
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Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
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American Machinist
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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International Commerce
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Publisher:
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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