Books written by Joseph J. Corn
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User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers
In 1909, Thomas Russell, the author of Automobile Driving Self-taught, implored operators to frequently check that their pumps were working. Your “next duty” after starting the engine was to observe the functioning of “your circulating ...
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The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation
... as Apollo 11 mission commander Michael Collins orbited the Moon alone aboard Columbia , astronauts Neil Armstrong and Ed Aldrin descended in the tiny lunar lander onto the surface . After the Eagle landed , and with live television ...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
1962 cardboard , mylar 10 14 x 14 Lent by Hanna Barbera Productions , Inc. 166 151 Toy , Flash Gordon Ray Gun , 1936 metal 7 1/2 X 512 Lent by Joel Spivak , Rocketships and Accessories , Philadelphia , Pa . 157- Radio Premium Figurines ...
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The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950
Reconstructs the early years of aviation and discusses famous and lesser-known aviators, ranging from Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart to Calbraith P. Rodgers
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Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future
These ten original essays explore the impulse to peer into the future, particularly into the American dream of a technological utopia.
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Into the Blue: American Writing on Aviation and Spaceflight
Behind us, the congeries of mountains fuse into a stony ocean that dies in a sea of mist: and somewhere infinitely ... Beneath their pinnacles are clouds, beneath the clouds filters the sky in falling shreds of blue; and in this blue, ...
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User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies, from Clocks and Sewing Machines to Cars and Computers
And computer users still have nothing quite like the neighborhood service stations that once adjusted and repaired ... In the epilogue and conclusion that follows, we look briefly at some of the user unfriendly offspring of the personal ...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
Corn and 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...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future
A look at the ways in which Americans over the last one hundred years have visualized the technology of the future
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The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950
By reconstructing the first era of manned flight, this book recovers the fascinating, and often bizarre, plans for the future of manned flight and brings back to life the famous and lesser-known aviators who became America's heroes--Charles ...
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Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology, and the American Future
Looks at past predictions of the future, discusses how x-rays, radio, nuclear energy, and plastic were expected to change the future, and considers the impact of skyscrapers, computers, and electricity