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Download or read book Frank Hornby written by M. P. Gould and published by . This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Hornby invented the train set, Meccano, the Dinky Toy and Scalextric. Born in 1866, he started his own toy manufacturing company. He "started" because he read a book called Self Help by Samuel Smiles, which tells the stories of great men who have invented useful things. Originally published in 1915.
Download or read book Frank Hornby written by M. Gould and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Hornby invented the train set, Meccano, the Dinky Toy and Scalextric. Born in 1866, he started his own toy manufacturing company. He started because he read a book called Self Help by Samuel Smiles, which tells the stories of great men who have invented useful things.Originally published in 1915.
Book Synopsis Frank Hornby by : Maurice Philip Gould
Download or read book Frank Hornby written by Maurice Philip Gould and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frank Hornby the boy who made 1,000,000 with a toy by : M.Ph. Gould
Download or read book Frank Hornby the boy who made 1,000,000 with a toy written by M.Ph. Gould and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities by : Roger Whitson
Download or read book Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities written by Roger Whitson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steampunk is more than a fandom, a literary genre, or an aesthetic. It is a research methodology turning history inside out to search for alternatives to the progressive technological boosterism sold to us by Silicon Valley. This book turns to steampunk's quirky temporalities to embrace diverse genealogies of the digital humanities and to unite their methodologies with nineteenth-century literature and media archaeology. The result is nineteenth-century digital humanities, a retrofuturist approach in which readings of steampunk novels like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine and Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings collide with nineteenth-century technological histories like Charles Babbage's use of the difference engine to enhance worker productivity and Isabella Bird's spirit photography of alternate history China. Along the way, Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities considers steampunk as a public form of digital humanities scholarship and activism, examining projects like Kinetic Steam Works's reconstruction of Henri Giffard's 1852 steam-powered airship, Jake von Slatt's use of James Wimshurst's 1880 designs to create an electric influence machine, and the queer steampunk activism of fans appearing at conventions around the globe. Steampunk as a digital humanities practice of repurposing reacts to the growing sense of multiple non-human temporalities mediating our human histories: microtemporal electricities flowing through our computer circuits, mechanical oscillations marking our work days, geological stratifications and cosmic drifts extending time into the millions and billions of years. Excavating the entangled, anachronistic layers of steampunk practice from video games like Bioshock Infinite to marine trash floating off the shore of Los Angeles and repurposed by media artist Claudio Garzón into steampunk submarines, Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities uncovers the various technological temporalities and multicultural retrofutures illuminating many alternate histories of the digital humanities.
Book Synopsis The British Toy Business by : Kenneth D. Brown
Download or read book The British Toy Business written by Kenneth D. Brown and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its height British toymaking was a significant industry, with famous names such as Britains and Meccano known throughout the world. While in essence a specialised form of small-scale engineering, its products and market have always been unique, reflecting the current priorities of both parents and children. Yet, while individual toys and marques have been catalogued extensively, no previous history of toymaking as a whole exists. The British Toy Business provides a fascinating example of the development of a specific industry. Many early early toys were home-made. From the eighteenth century, with its growing recognition of children as something other than small adults, date the beginnings of specialised toys, usually produced by small workshops and sold by street-sellers. The nineteenth century, with its industrial growth and middle-class prosperity, saw an expansion of toymaking. The 1960s and 1970s were the most successful years of British toymaking, with companies like Lesney making record profits. Yet British toy makers failed to solve a number of fundamental problems. Following an unexpected sudden downturn in sales at a time of high interest rates, the major names in British toy making, Lesney, Airfix, Mettoy and Dunbee Combex Marx, all collapsed between 1979 and 1985, leaving the business to be dominated largely by importers.
Download or read book Meccano written by Roger Marriott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has now been over a century since Frank Hornby invented a toy to amuse his sons and called it Meccano, coining a word which has entered the dictionary as a term in common usage and is now known all over the world. Hornby's vision of an educational toy became the basis of perhaps the most successful British toy business of the twentieth century. Meccano has amused generations of children, encouraging many to become successful engineers. Roger Marriott here explores the long history of Meccano, charting the development of the various sets and components, which for decades have been interchangeable, and explains the endless fascination of this iconic construction toy.
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Copyright Entries by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Toy Story written by Anthony McReavy and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single man was responsible for the toys which shaped generations of children. Frank Hornby invented the train set, Meccano, the dinky toy and Scalextric. And yet, until now, there has been no biography of this extraordinary figure. Frank Hornby lived in Liverpool, and while working as a bookkeeper for a meat importer, he became frustrated by the range of toys in Britain and set up a toy manufacturing company. A passionate and inspired man, he developed his first toys for his own children and by his death in 1936 Meccano and Hornby trains were market leaders. Encompassing social history, politics and changing attitudes towards children this is a beautifully written life story of an unsung hero.
Book Synopsis Adventures in Childhood: Volume 60 by : Jose Bellido
Download or read book Adventures in Childhood: Volume 60 written by Jose Bellido and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in Childhood connects modern intellectual property law and practice with a history of consumption. Structured in a loosely chronological order, the book begins with the creation of a children's literature market, a Christmas market, and moves through character merchandising, syndicated newspaper strips, film, television, and cross-industry relations, finishing in the 1970s, by which time professional identities and legal practices had stabilized. By focusing on the rise of child-targeted commercial activities, the book is able to reflect on how and why intellectual property rights became a defining feature of 20th century culture. Chapters trace the commercial empires that grew around Alice in Wonderland, Peter Rabbit, Meccano, Felix the Cat, Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan, Eagle Magazine, Davy Crockett, Mr Men, Dr Who, The Magic Roundabout and The Wombles to show how modern intellectual property merchandising was plagued with legal and moral questions that exposed the tension between exploitation and innocence.
Download or read book St. Nicholas written by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Railroad Craftsman written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kids' Stuff written by Gary Cross and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Cross explores the meaning of American toys throughout this century. What does the endless array of action figures and fashion dolls mean? How have toys reflected who we are, and who we want our children to be? Tapping a rich vein of cultural history, Kids' Stuff exposes the serious business behind a century of playthings.
Download or read book Hornby written by Ian Harrison and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Hornby railways from the inception of the Gauge O system as an extension of the mighty Meccano empire, through the market dominance of the famous Hornby-Dublo range, to its take-over by Tri-ang and the re-emergence of the Hornby name, once again associated with the market leader in model railways.
Download or read book Railfan & Railroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
