Gadgets and necessities

This amusing and thought-provoking A-to-Z encyclopedia examines modern domestic technology and innovations during the twentieth century, exploring the social and cultural conditions that produced such products as the electric iron and the vacuum cleaner. The encyclopedia covers innovations and objects, inventors, organizations, institutions, manufacturers, and themes. Taking the average home of today as a starting point, the volume covers the household objects and technologies that did not exist in homes before 1900.