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A chance to be inspired by the inventions of the wider world, perhaps?
In February Will Hutton wrote an interesting column in the Observer, in which he argued that the postwar economic boom was propelled by the inventions of the first half of the 20th century.
But we seem incapable of seeing women in the Victorian period as anything other than sexually passive, a gender so disconnected from their bodies that they had to be stimulated by the inventions of men.
Initially dependent on agriculture and maritime trade, the economy became industrialized in the 19th century, spurred by the inventions of New Haven residents Eli Whitney, who developed the concept of mass-producing interchangeable parts, and, later, Charles Goodyear, who created the vulcanization process for rubber.
DB Clear Blue Tomorrows by Fabien Vehlmann, Ralph Meyer and Bruno Gazzotti (Cinebook, November) Clear Blue Tomorrows provides an amusing dystopian set-up: engineer Nolan Ska travels back in time to prevent the ruling dictatorship made possible by the inventions of one FG Wilson.
I was amazed by the inventions of mere mortals, and wondered if there was some sort of genetic mutation that allowed a select few to see the future more clearly than the rest of us.
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These fundamental weaknesses were removed by the invention of vulcanization in 1839 by Charles Goodyear.
Portraits by itinerant artists vivify a genre that was scuttled by the invention of photography.
They saw the rise of motion pictures and radio, followed by the invention of television.
A considerable advance was achieved by the invention of the transparent Microcard, or microfiche.
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