Extinct : a compendium of obsolete objects / edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner and Miranda Critchley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Penner, Barbara, 1970- editor.

Forty, Adrian, 1948- editor.

Horsfall Turner, Olivia, editor.

Critchley, Miranda, editor.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial products--History.

Commercial products.

Product obsolescence--History.

Product obsolescence.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

390 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2021.

Contents:

Acoustic Location Device p. 21 / Bryony Quinn

Action Office Acoustic Area Conditioner: The 'Maskitball' p. 25 / Kristen Gallerneaux

Air-curtain Roof p. 29 / Laurent Stalder

All-plastic House p. 33 / Carola Hein

Arsenic Wallpaper p. 37 / Lucinda Hawksley

Arundel Print p. 41 / Tanya Harrod

Asbestos-cement Rondavel p. 45 / Hannah le Roux

Ashtray p. 49 / Catherine Slessor

Atmospheric Railway p. 53 / Niall McLaughlin

Cab-fare Map p. 57 / Paul Dobraszczyk

Central Heating p. 61 / Mario Carpo

Chaparral 2J: The 'Sucker Car' p. 65 / Eirik A.G. Bøhn

Chatelaine p. 69 / Iris Moon

The Clapper p. 73 / Charles Rice

Close-constraint Key p. 77 / Ben Vandenput

Concorde p. 81 / Thomas McQuillan

ConvAirCar p. 85 / Emily M. Orr

Cybernetic Anthropomorphic Machines p. 89 / Lydia Kallipoliti

Cybersyn p. 93 / Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Ignacio Alonso

Cyclegraph p. 97 / Barbara Penner

Cyclops 1 p. 101 / Thandi Loewenson

Dougong p. 105 / Guang Yu Ren and Edward Denison

Dymaxion House p. 109 / Barry Bergdoll

Edison's Anti-gravitation Under-clothing p. 113 / Bob Nicholson

Electrotype Pattern p. 117 / Angus Patterson

Fisher-Price Peg Figures p. 121 / Mark Morris

Flashcube p. 125 / Harriet Harriss

Flying Boat p. 129 / David Edgerton

Glass Lantern Slide p. 133 / Daniel M. Abramson

Globe of Mars p. 137 / Lucy Garrett

High-pressure Water Mains p. 141 / Adrian Forty

House Environment p. 145 / Eszter Steierhoffer

'Hummingbird' Taxi p. 149 / Lucinda Hawksley

Incandescent Light Bulb p. 153 / Mari Hvattum

Integrated Radio/TV Cabinet p. 157 / Anders V. Munch

Invacar: The 'Invalid Carriage' p. 161 / Elizabeth Guffey

Kodachrome p. 165 / Tacita Dean

Letraset p. 169 / Robin Kinross

Leucotome p. 173 / Carsten Timmermann

Manchester Pail System: 'Dolly Vardens' p. 177 / Barbara Penner

Mechanical Polygraph p. 181 / Danielle S. Willkens

Medical Wax Model p. 185 / Thomas Kador

Memo p. 189 / Adrian Forty

Milk Spoon p. 193 / Hugo Palmarola

MiniDisc p. 197 / Priya Khanchandani

Minitel p. 201 / Shahed Saleem

Moon Towers p. 205 / Bryony Quinn

Nikini p. 209 / Rachel Siobhán Tyler

'No Nonsense' Fountain Pen p. 213 / Pippo Ciorra

North Bucks Monorail City p. 217 / Gillian Darley

Notgeld p. 221 / Tom Wilkinson

Oil from Coal p. 225 / David Edgerton

Optical Telegraph p. 229 / David Trotter

Paper Aeroplane Ticket p. 233 / Gökçe Günel

Paper Dress p. 237 / Olivia Horsfall Turner

Pasilalinic-sympathetic Compass p. 241 / Richard Taws

Phase-change Chemical Heat-storage Barrel p. 245 / Daniel Barber

Player Piano p. 249 / Hal Foster

Pneumatic Postal System p. 253 / Jacob Paskins

Polaroid SX-70 p. 257 / Deyan Sudjic

Public Standards of Length p. 261 / David Rooney

Pyrophone p. 265 / Tim Boon

Realistic Wax Mannequin p. 269 / Maude Bass-Krueger

Rotring, Letratone, MiniCAD p. 273 / Tony Fretton

Scaphander: 'Man-boat' p. 277 / Steven Connor

Scarificator p. 281 / Thomas Kador

Serving Hatch p. 285 / Tim Ainsworth Anstey

Sinclair C5 p. 289 / Simon Sadler

Skirt Grip p. 293 / Amyde la Haye

Slide Rule p. 297 / Adrian Forty

Slotted Screwdriver p. 301 / Richard Wentworth

Space Frame p. 305 / Catherine Slessor

Stanley 55 Combination Plane p. 309 / Nikos Magouliotis

Telephone Table p. 313 / Edwin Heathcote

Teletype p. 317 / James Purdon

Théâtrophone p. 321 / Carlotta Darò

Think City Electric Vehicle p. 325 / Kjetil Fallan

Trombe Wall p. 329 / Paul Bouet

T-shirt Plastic Bag p. 333 / Johanna Agerman Ross

Ultratemp® Roasting Rack p. 337 / Christian Parreno

UV-radiated Artificial Beach p. 341 / Maarten Liefooghe

Vertical Filing Cabinet p. 345 / Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Water Bag p. 349 / Sarah Bell

Writing Case p. 353 / Barry Curtis

Zeppelin p. 357 / Jeremy Myerson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1789144523

9781789144529

OCLC:

1243349525

Publisher Number:

99989246648