Author: Sir David SalomonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Motor Traffic (chiefly Technical)
Author: Sir David SalomonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motor vehicles
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Auto Motor Journal
Author: Patent Office Library Series
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Subject List of Works on Heat and Heat-engines Excluding Marine Engineering, in the Library of the Patent Office
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heat
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Report of Proceedings
Author: Great Britain. Road BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Fighting Traffic
Author: Peter D. NortonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262293889
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” He considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Subject List of Works on the Laws of Industrial Property (patents, Designs and Trade Marks) and Copyright
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Author: