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Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951
Maurice Collins
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Description for Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1,000 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 293 x 228 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1624.
Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to the post-WWII Festival of Britain saw rapid technological advancement throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and countless numbers of products, from the ingenious to the idiotic, appeared on the market. Twenty-two sections divided into time- and money-saving devices, kitchen utensils, gadgets for ladies and gentlemen, trains, bikes, autos, and many more, recall these bygone products. Some, like the moustache spoon, clearly served a need amid polite Victorian society. However, less ... Read more
Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to the post-WWII Festival of Britain saw rapid technological advancement throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and countless numbers of products, from the ingenious to the idiotic, appeared on the market. Twenty-two sections divided into time- and money-saving devices, kitchen utensils, gadgets for ladies and gentlemen, trains, bikes, autos, and many more, recall these bygone products. Some, like the moustache spoon, clearly served a need amid polite Victorian society. However, less ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764351327
SKU
V9780764351327
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About Maurice Collins
Maurice Collins has been collecting gadgets, contraptions, and doohickeys from bygone eras for more than 40 years. Born in London's East End in the mid-1930s, he served in the British Royal Air Force and later started his own printing company specializing in boxed games and cartons.
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