Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity

• Tác giả: Mimi Sheller
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0262321365
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.47669722 Secondary industries and services
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 PDF (384 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 313677
• Chủ đề: 1. Aluminum industry and trade--Social aspects; 2. Aluminum

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees.