HIS 2129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Irradiation, Vannevar Bush, Avro Canada Cf-105 Arrow
30 Oct 2016
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Mass mechanization introduced in wwi extended beyond transportation. Many technologies became widely available (television, radio, cars, etc. ) Events such as the new york world fair in 1939 appealed to a society with increasing involvement of technologies in everyday life. In the north american society, the technological imagination of the early twentieth century was the product of a culture from the enlightenment (18th century) that started by celebrating the inventor as a benefactor of all humanity. Ideas of technological process were proposed by authors such as victor hugo, h. g. Even city planners guided the evolution of entire towns and cities rather than just designing house tracts or whole neighborhoods. By wwii, large planned communities were already being planned in vienna, A new look at technological objects as a styling message in the mid-20th century began the new role of an industrial designer. Industrial designers focus on trade-offs between certain factors that would change the performance of the product.
