Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Modernist Inventions

A short list of late-19th and early-20th century inventions that bear some relationship to modernist art and literature:

  1. The typewriter
  2. The sewing machine
  3. Pasteurization
  4. The bicycle
  5. Plastic
  6. The machine gun
  7. Dynamite
  8. Barbed wire
  9. The telephone
  10. The phonograph/gramophone
  11. The electric lightbulb
  12. Paper-strip photographic film
  13. The automobile
  14. The motion picture/cinema
  15. The zeppelin
  16. Carbon paper
  17. The vertical and lateral file
  18. Safety razors
  19. Radio
  20. The airplane
  21. Talkies (sound-synchronized motion pictures)
  22. The bra
  23. The zipper
  24. Television

This is partly for my own use, but I'd be interested to hear thoughts from others.

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