Aluminum dreams : the making of light modernity / Mimi Sheller.
By: Sheller, Mimi [author.]
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Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
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BookSeries: Mobility studies: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2014]Description: 1 PDF (384 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262321365.Subject(s): Aluminum | Aluminum industry and trade -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification: 338.4/7669722 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.Summary: Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees.
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Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees.
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