Yesterday's Tomorrows Past Visions of the American Future

Name: Yesterday's Tomorrows Past Visions of the American Future
Price: 15.75 USD
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ISBN: 9780801853999

ISBN-10: 0801853990

ISBN-13: 9780801853999

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan

List price: $38.00

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Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture--waterproof, of course--will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidence--and, at times,…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 5/15/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 7.60" wide x 9.90" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Finding the Future



The Community of Tomorrow



The Home of Tomorrow



The Transportation of Tomorrow



The Weapons and Warfare of Tomorrow


Epilogue


Catalogue List


Suggested Reading


Index