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Author : Keith Geddes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Setmakers written by Keith Geddes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191086355
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Market Makers written by Peter Scott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century 'affluence' (both at the level of the individual household and that of society as a whole) became intimately linked with access to a range of prestige consumer durables. The Market Makers charts the inter-war origins of a process that would eventually transform these features of modern life from being 'luxuries' to 'necessities' for most British families. Peter Scott examines how producers and retailers succeeded in creating 'mass' (though not universal) market for new suites of furniture, radios, modern housing, and some electrical and gas appliances, while also exploring why some other goods, such as refrigerators, telephones, and automobiles, failed to reach the mass market in Britain before the 1950s. Creating mass markets presented a formidable challenge for manufacturers and retailers. Consumer durables required large markets. Most involved significant research and development costs. Some, such as the telephone, radio, and car, were dependent on complementary investments in infrastructure. All required intensive marketing - usually including expensive advertising in national newspapers and magazines, while some also needed mass production methods (and output volumes) to make them affordable to a mass market. This study charts the pioneering efforts of entrepreneurs (many of whom, though once household names, are now largely forgotten) to provide consumer durables at a price affordable to a mass market and to persuade a sometimes reluctant public to embrace the new products and the consumer credit that their purchase required. In doing so, Scott shows that, contrary to much received wisdom, there was a 'consumer durables revolution' in inter-war Britain - at least for certain highly prioritised goods.
Author : Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 1484233638
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Smarter Homes written by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 100 years, the home has been a battleground for ideas of future living. Fueled by the electrification of cities, the move from the country to cities, post-war recovery and the development of the internet, the way we live at home (alone or with others) has changed beyond recognition. Science fiction writing, the entertainment industry, art, and modern interior design and architecture movements have also contributed to defining our aspirations around a future and now more present and possible ‘smart’ home. From the decade-old smart fridge that tells you if you have run out of milk to smart speakers that let you shop hands-free, some visions of the ‘smart’ home are yet to excite us while others are becoming a reality and will shape how we will live at home very soon. This book breaks down the historical, societal and political context for the changes in focus of that ‘smartness’ from affordability, efficiency, convenience to recently experimentation. These key points in time include: The development and marketing of electrical appliances in early 20th century War-time design the impact of military ergonomics Modernist interior design and building practices of the 1920s The space race and new materials of the post-war era Compact urban living in the 1960s & 70s Connected home entertainment in the 1980s-90s Phones and mobility in the 90s Smart energy & utilities in the early 2000s The internet-connected fridge in 2000 Remote care in a global world economy The sharing economy and new ways to shop at home Invisible ‘smart’ design in the home The second half of the book breaks down what current developments tell us about what our homes will look like in the next 10 years through the lens of spaces, services, appliances and behaviours in our homes. What You'll Learn Understand the historical context for current ‘smart home’ products Understand the social context of home product development Understand what in home technologies are being developed Understand what products are currently available Understand what behaviours are being constantly leveraged Understand how this may affect longer term market trends for consumer products Many new and innovative products are being developed in the consumer and industrial spaces with a copy-paste mindset based on following larger businesses such as Amazon, Google and Apple. Many opportunities in the homespace however will come from understanding the history and multiple players that have contributed to the development of the home in general. For everyone working in product design and development, in R&D or in trends research as well as for everyone interested in the IoT for the home, this book will be a valuable resource and an enjoyable read. This book will give product business owners ideas about what has been done before and and avenues for future development.
Author : Michael Guida
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190085533
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Listening to British Nature written by Michael Guida and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening to British Nature: Wartime, Radio, and Modern Life, 1914-1945 traces the impact of sounds and rhythm of the natural world and how they were listened, interpreted, and used amid the pressures of modern life to in early twentieth-century Britain. Author Michael Guida argues thatdespite and sometimes because of the chaos of wartime and the struggle to recover, nature's voices were drawn close to provide everyday security, sustenance and a sense of the future. Nature's sonic presences were not obliterated by the noise of war, the advent of radio broadcasting and the rush ofthe everyday, rather they came to complement and provide alternatives to modern modes of living.Listening to British Nature examines how trench warfare demanded the creation of new listening cultures in order to understand danger and to imagine survival. It tells of the therapeutic communities who used quiet and rural rhythms to restore shell-shocked soldiers and of ramblers who sought toimmerse themselves in the sensualities of the outdoors, revealing how home-front listening in the Blitz was punctuated by birdsong broadcast by the BBC. In focusing on the sensing of sounds and rhythms, this study demonstrates how nature retained its emotional potency as the pace andunpredictabilities of life seemed to increase and new man-made sounds and sonic media appeared all around. To listen to nature during this time was to cultivate an intimate connection with its vibrations and to sense an enduring order and beauty that could be taken into the future.
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Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817994037
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Effect of Japanese Investment on the World Economy: A Six-Country Study, 1970–1991 written by and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the US, Great Britain, Mexico, Australia, the Republic of China, and Thailand, the six essays in this volume explore the benefits and problems Japanese foreign direct investment has created, particularly in terms of recipient countries' employment, foreign trade, acquisition of new technology and management skills, economic output, resource development, and the all- important public opinion. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Lyn Gorman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405149353
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Media and Society into the 21st Century written by Lyn Gorman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and Society into the 21st Century captures the breathtaking revolutionary sweep of mass media from the late 19th century to the present day. Updated and expanded new edition including coverage of recent media developments and the continued impact of technological change Newly reworked chapters on media, war, international relations, and new media A new "Web 2.0" section explores the role of blogging, social networking, user-generated content, and search media in media landscape
Author : Trevor Pinch
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195388941
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies written by Trevor Pinch and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the world's leading scholars and researchers in sound studies, this handbook offers new and engaging perspectives on the significance of sound in its material and cultural forms.
Author : Aitor Anduaga Egaña
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562725
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Wireless and Empire written by Aitor Anduaga Egaña and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the product of consensus politics, the British Empire was based on communications supremacy and the knowledge of the atmosphere. Focusing on science, industry, government, the military, and education, this book studies the relationship between wireless and Empire throughout the interwar period.
Author : Philip Hamlyn Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399015168
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World, 1851–1951 written by Philip Hamlyn Williams and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The peoples of the British Isles gave to the world the foundations on which modern manufacturing economies are built. This is quite an assertion, but history shows that, in the late eighteenth century, a remarkable combination of factors and circumstances combined to give birth to Britain as the first manufacturing nation. Further factors allowed it to remain top manufacturing dog well into the twentieth century while other countries were busy playing catch up. Through two world wars and the surrounding years, British manufacturing remained strong, albeit while ceding the lead to the United States. This book seeks to tell the remarkable story of British manufacturing, using the Great Exhibition of 1851 as a prism. Prince Albert and Sir Henry Cole had conceived an idea of bringing together exhibits from manufacturers across the world to show to its many millions of visitors the pre-eminence of the British. 1851 was not the start, but rather a pause for a bask in glory. This book traces back from the exhibits in Hyde Park’s Crystal Palace to identify the factors that gave rise to this pre-eminence, then follows developments up until the Festival of Britain exactly one century later. Steam power and communication by electric telegraph, both British inventions, predated the Exhibition. After it came the sewing machine and bicycle, motor car and aeroplane, but also electrical power, radio and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries where Britain played a leading part.
Author : Bertie Charles Forbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Forbes written by Bertie Charles Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This business magazine covers domestic and international business topics. Special issues include Annual Report on American Industry, Forbes 500, Stock Bargains, and Special Report on Multinationals.
Author : Mark Frankland
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 0852962037
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Radio Man written by Mark Frankland and published by IET. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, Stanley bought a small radio manufacturing company from its founder, W. G. Pye. By the time it crashed and burned in 1966, the Pye company had become an international empire employing 30,000 workers, and was associated with some of the most dramatic application of electronics in the period. Frankland, a journalist with a background in history, tells the story of the man and his company. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Michele Hilmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349916455
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)
Download or read book The Television History Book written by Michele Hilmes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of broadcasting and the infludence developments in broadcasting have had over our social, cultural and economic practices. Examining the broadcasting traditions of the UK and USA, 'The Television History Book' make connections between events and tendencies that both unite and differentiate these national broadcasting traditions.
Author : John Morris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350271241
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Music and Politics in Thirties Britain written by John Morris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical domestic politics, musical experimentation, advancing technology and the influence of migration from Europe and Britain's enrichment from it, all had their affects on a remarkable year in musical cultural life in the mid-30s. This book looks at the little-known aspect of music and politics in domestic Britain in 1934, a pivotal year in terms of political and cultural developments. Music and Politics in Thirties Britain focuses on the production, reception and interpretation of classical music in relation to the changes of the 1930s. John Morris treads new ground by examining the relationship between music, musicians and fascism – an area overlooked by existing scholarship. The book expertly traces the complexities and contradictions of British music history in the 1930s as musicians like others in the Arts attempted to engage with the political turmoil of the period. John Morris exemplifies the “cultural turn” in studies of British fascism, and also shows the overlap between ideas of the BUF and more progressive musicians. The result is a stimulating addition to existing scholarship which will be of interest to scholars and students alike.
Author : Marcel F. van Marion
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642469426
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Liberal Trade and Japan written by Marcel F. van Marion and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIBERAL TRADE AND JAPAN THE INCOMPATIBILITY ISSUE IN ELECTRONICS What would be the cause of those many trade conflicts between Japan and the West? Do just lack of competitiveness and protectionism or inaccessibility of the Japanese market trigger repetitive trade conflicts or some mix? It may also be that economic systems of Japan and the Western industrial nations are incompatible. Both, the question of competitiveness and of frictions between both systems are addressed in this book. Incongruity of the economy of Japan and Western liberal system would have serious consequences for the continuity of the world trade system. H a contradiction between the two systems is supposed to exist, such a hypothesis would require analysis of the basics of the existing trade system and of the Japanese economy and what its effects on world trade are. H it would be possible to explain salient features of Japanese competitiveness from these frictions perhaps some recommendations could be made for improvement of business and governmental trade policies and of the international trade system. The present world trade system is partly framed in rules dating from the end of the 1940s and reflecting economic experience as well as prevailing - both theoretical and ideological - economic thought in the period prior to their design. Part A investigates the liberal basis of the international economic system and general position of Japan in that system.
Author : Jeff Hill
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843837889
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sport, History, and Heritage written by Jeff Hill and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life, but although its importance has been recognised in academic history, in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies it has yet to be fully appreciated and brought into interaction More...with historical studies. Ideologically, sport and heritage both convey powerful messages, responsible for shaping our understanding of sport, history, and the past; although they have essentially operated as separate spheres, one important aspect of convergence between them is seen in the rise and popularity of sports museums, the collecting of sporting art and memorabilia, and popular concern over the demise of historic sports buildings and places. The essays in this volume look at sports history as manifested in academic enquiry, museum exhibition and heritage sites. They deal among other things with the public representation of sport and why it matters; its impact on public spheres; the direction of sports heritage studies and what they should be attempting to achieve; the role of museums in public history; and the place, memory and meaning in the historic sports landscape.
Author : Carolyn Birdsall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501374990
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Radiophilia written by Carolyn Birdsall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception. The thrilling experience of tuning in to the live sounds of this new medium prompted strong affective responses in its listeners. This book introduces a new concept of radiophilia, defined as the attachment to, or even a love of radio. Treating radiophilia as a dynamic cultural phenomenon, it unpacks the various pleasures associated with radio and its sounds, the desire to discover and learn new things via radio, and efforts to record, re-experience, and share radio. Surveying 100 years of radio from early wireless through to digital audio formats like podcasting, the book engages in debates about fandom, audience participation, listening experience, material culture, and how media relate to affect and emotions.
Author : Jamie Medhurst
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893196
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Broadcasting in the UK and US in the 1950s written by Jamie Medhurst and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of digital communications, where radio, satellite, television and computing have come together to allow instant access to information and entertainment from around the globe, it is sometimes easy to overstate the break with the recent past that these developments imply. However, from a historical perspective, it is important to recognise that the national dimensions of communications, including broadcasting, have always been framed within different sets of international political, economic, cultural, and technological relationships. Television, so easily seen as the last technology to succumb to the effects of internationalisation subsequent to the technical and political changes of the late twentieth century, was in fact, from the outset, embedded in international interactions. In recent years, a focus has been placed on the longstanding sets of transnational relationships in place in the years after World War II, when television established itself as the dominant form of mass communication in Europe and America. Recent research has adopted a comparative approach to television history, which has examined the interactions within Europe and between Europe and America from the 1950s onwards. In addition, there has been increasing interest in the idea of television in the Anglophone world, looking at transatlantic interactions from the early phases of the development of the technology, through the growing market for formats in the 1950s and outwards, to connections with Australia and Hong Kong in these years. The essays in this collection contribute to this area by bringing together, in one volume, work which focuses on both national developments in UK and US broadcasting in the 1950s, to allow for reflection on how those systems were developing and being understood within those societies, and raise issues about the ways in which the two systems interacted and can be usefully compared. Some contributions deliberately focus on international issues, while others embed the international dimension within them, and still others offer a critical commentary on developments during the 1950s. The book will appeal primarily to students and researchers in media and communication studies, television studies, radio studies, and history, but will also be of interest to all who have an interest in developments in communication in the post-war period.
