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Tinkering : consumers reinvent the early automobile

Title: Tinkering : consumers reinvent the early automobile / Kathleen Franz.
Author: Franz, Kathleen.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.

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Description

224 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In the first decades of motor travel, between 1900 and 1940, Americans were buying automobiles in record numbers. Cars were becoming more easily affordable, not only for high-income families but for middle-class families as well. As they bought, they redesigned. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, designers, advice experts, and consumers, from savvy buyers to grass-roots inventors."--Jacket.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-217) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Automobiles in the Machine Age -- What consumers wanted -- Women's Ingenuity -- Consumers become inventors -- A tinkerer's story -- The automotive industry takes the stage.

ISBN

0812238818
9780812238815

LCCN

2004065111

OCLC

ocm57406174
57406174
SCSB-1379748

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library