Author: Joan RolfsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Phonograph Dolls and Toys
Author: Joan RolfsToy Time!
Author: Christopher ByrnePublisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
ISBN: 9780385349123
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A nostalgic celebration of the most beloved toys of decades past - like Twister, LEGOs, My Little Ponies, Lite Brite, Viewmaster, Transformers ... and much more. Attractive, gifty, and fully illustrated with photos of vintage toy packaging, advertisements, and of course the toys themselves, Toy Time! is chock full of fun facts, trivia, and memories about the toys you cherished most"--
Among the Dolls
Author: William SleatorPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765352397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Vicky is disappointed in her birthday gift of a dollhouse, but she experiences real terror when she is drawn into the house and the lives of its malicious inhabitants.
Look for the Dog
Author: Robert W. BaumbachPublisher: Woodland Hills, Calif. : Stationary X-Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Nipper Collectibles
Author: Joan RolfsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578081939
Category : Antiques
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Living Dolls
Author: Gaby WoodPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571178797
Category : Androids
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Living Dolls tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations.
Edison
Author: Paul IsraelPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471362700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Ein Bestseller jetzt neu als Broschurausgabe! Die gebundene Ausgabe erzielte hervorragende Kritiken im Daily Telegraph, New Scientist, The Independent und in der Sunday Times - um nur einige zu nennen. Israel hatte erstmals Zugang zu Werkstatt-Tagebüchern, Briefen und mehr als fünf Millionen Seiten Archivmaterial. Auf der Basis dieser Informationen hat er die erste maßgebende Biographie von Edison verfaßt. Zum ersten Mal wird Edisons Karriere als Erfinder systematisch untersucht und bewertet. Im Detail wird erforscht, wie er u.a. mit der Erfindung des elektrischen Lichts, der Photographie und mehr als tausend anderen Dingen das 20. Jahrhundert prägte. Dies ist auch die erste Biographie, die Edison im Zusammenhang mit dem rapiden industriellen Wandel betrachtet, indem die Auswirkungen dieses Wandels auf seine Erfindungen beschrieben werden. Dieses Buch liefert eine Fülle neuer Informationen über Edison und seine Erfindungen. Eine interessante und spannende Lektüre. (y03/00)
Toys and Novelties
Author: Toys and American Culture
Author: Sharon M. ScottPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Tracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong. From the origins of favorite playthings to their associations with events and activities, the study of a nation's toys reveals the hopes, goals, values, and priorities of its people. Toys have influenced the science, art, and religion of the United States, and have contributed to the development of business, politics, and medicine. Toys and American Culture: An Encyclopedia documents America's shifting cultural values as they are embedded within and transmitted by the nation's favorite playthings. Alphabetically arranged entries trace developments in toy making and toy marketing across the evolving landscape of 20th-century America. In addition to discussing the history of America's most influential toys, the book contains specific entries on the individuals, organizations, companies, and publications that gave shape to America's culture of play from 1900 to 2000. Toys from the two decades that frame the 20th century are also included, as bridges to the fascinating past—and the inspiring future—of American toys.
Edison's Eve
Author: Gaby WoodPublisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A rich and informative exploration of our age-old obsession with “making life.” Could an eighteenth-century mechanical duck really digest and excrete its food? Was “the Turk,” a celebrated chess-playing and -winning machine fabricated in 1769, a dazzling piece of fakery, or could it actually think? Why was Thomas Edison obsessed with making a mechanical doll—a perfect woman, mass-produced? Can a twenty-first-century robot express human emotions of its own? Taking up themes long familiar from the realms of fairy tales and science fiction, Gaby Wood traces the hidden prehistory of a modern idea—the thinking, hoaxes, and inventions that presaged contemporary robotics and the current experiments with artificial intelligence. Informed by the author’s scientific and historical research, Edison’s Eve is also a brilliant literary, cultural, and philosophical examination of the motives that have driven human beings to pursue the creation of mechanical life, and the effects of that pursuit—both in its successes and in its failures—on our sense of what makes us human.