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Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile
Kathleen Franz
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Description for Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile
Paperback. Tinkering takes a fresh look at early automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, designers, advice experts, and consumers, from savvy buyers to grass-roots inventors. Num Pages: 232 pages, 22 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221589
SKU
V9780812221589
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About Kathleen Franz
Kathleen Franz teaches history and is Director of Public History at American University.
Reviews for Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile
"A welcome addition to the growing literature on users of technology and the cultural history of the automobile."
Journal of American History
"A well written, valuable contribution to the state of the art of mobility history, even as it opens up a whole new subfield. It is also a valuable addition to consumption studies within and without the ... Read more
Journal of American History
"A well written, valuable contribution to the state of the art of mobility history, even as it opens up a whole new subfield. It is also a valuable addition to consumption studies within and without the ... Read more