Modernist Inventions
A short list of late-19th and early-20th century inventions that bear some relationship to modernist art and literature:
- The typewriter
- The sewing machine
- Pasteurization
- The bicycle
- Plastic
- The machine gun
- Dynamite
- Barbed wire
- The telephone
- The phonograph/gramophone
- The electric lightbulb
- Paper-strip photographic film
- The automobile
- The motion picture/cinema
- The zeppelin
- Carbon paper
- The vertical and lateral file
- Safety razors
- Radio
- The airplane
- Talkies (sound-synchronized motion pictures)
- The bra
- The zipper
- Television
This is partly for my own use, but I'd be interested to hear thoughts from others.
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