Lie with the internal combustion engine and not as many of thought before with either electricity or staying in or justice there ought to be a replica of the sting set up in every all fought for the Persian Gulf to Houston but if it looks somewhat ludicrous to assist capture the day and that's because of difficulties between sculpture and the new convention of the machine. Nevertheless liver cells victory was of tremendous social consequence because it persuaded Europeans with manufacturers and public alike that the future of road transport. With could do about the same speed as a jumping fraud but not very much more.

It was the guardian of the future it summed up what technological progress meant to the men who ran your up at the end of the nineteenth century the promise of the limited control over the world and it will be the most visible sign of the future was the automobile and this is the first public sculpture ever save up enough to pray it commemorates the great road race of eighty ninety five from Paris to vote Diamondback which was run by an engineer named India live outside in the car that he designed and built himself upon the lever saw. Alluded to the human body and to the colossal at the top. The towel was the static place some of the cult of dynamism a colossus planted but spread legs in the middle of power. This was a chamber I'm a huge act of propaganda designed not phone architect but by an engineer who stopped I found. Paris shed your gun for eight hundred eighty nine hundred ten of the story of the French Revolution. Since the Great Exhibition of eight hundred fifty one min London the big house of Europe and taken to holding the world's fails to show off their industrial strength. Modernity meant believing in technology I'm not cruft human perfectibility not original seen the Bible in a ceaseless consumption of things and the images of the if you were a Peruvian alive in eighty ninety and you wanted to show with his a tough luck modernity meant you pointed to the structure of tallest man made object on a tower of babel of a new machine or. The key word of the new century was modernity. This series the shock of the new is about an old subject almost a hundred years ago. Addeddate 02:24:59 Boxid IA113002 Color color Identifier theshockofthenewthemechanicalparadisepart1_201505 Lccn 80700984 Ocr A point to.

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