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Gadgets and necessities
an encyclopedia of household innovations
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Date(s): 2001
Publisher: ABC-CLIO 2001
ISBN: 978-1576070819
Notes:
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.
Keywords:
gadgets, inventions, electricity, household appliances, devices
SHIC codes:
2
2.28
2.3
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2.5
2.51
2.55
2.86
2.861
2.862
2.865
2.866
2.9
3.49
4.792
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