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The title of this book implies that it is about things—gadgets and necessities within the twentieth-century home. In a way it is, but we hope that it is a little more than that. It is about people and their ideas, about their relationships with things and the value they placed upon them. It is also about people as the products of an industrial society that required them to be both producers and consumers.

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The book's 190 entries range over a broad spectrum, from the lowly kettle and sandwich toaster to the Jacuzzi, modem, plastics, Pyrex, and Tefal nonstick surfacing. Entry length varies from two paragraphs on Trouser presses and five on Barbecues to more than two pages on Do-it-yourself and ten on Computers.

Coverage is ample, although the absence of entries on water purifiers, icemakers, and bottled water is surprising in view of the inclusion of such low-priority items as Atari and virtual pets. Convenience foods should have included baby food and infant formula.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

AEG

Aga Cookers

Air-Conditioning

Alessi

Answering Machine

Apple Computer, Inc.

Asahi Optical Corporation

AT&T

Atari, Inc.

Baby Monitors

Baird Television Company

Bang & Olufsen

Barbecues

Batteries

Bed Warmers

Belling Company

Bidets

Black & Decker

Blenders/Juicers

Bodum

Braun

Breadmakers

Brillo Pads

British Electrical Development Association (BEDA)

British Telecom

Broilers

Brother Industries

Calculators

Camcorders

Cameras

Can Openers

Carpet Sweepers

Casco Products Corporation

Ceramics

Clothes Dryers

Coffee Grinders

Coffeemakers

Compact Disc Players

Compasso d’Oro

Computer Printers

Computers

Consumers

Convenience Foods

Cookers

Cookware

Crate&Barrel

Crocker, Betty

Deep Fat Fryers

Defrosters

Design Council

Detergents

Dishwashers

Do-It-Yourself

A. F. Dormeyer

Drills, Electric

Dyson Appliances

Eastman Kodak

Ekco

Electric Fans

Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI)

Electrical Association for Women (EAW)

Electricity

Electrolux

Electronic Games

Ericsson

S. W. Farber, Inc.

Fax Machines

Food Mixers

Food Processors

Food Warmers

Freezers

Frying Pans

General Electric

General Electric Company

General Foods Corporation

Glen Dimplex

Glisdomes

Goblin

Habitat

Hair Clippers

Hair Dryers

Hair Stylers

Hamilton Beach

Heating

Hewlett-Packard

The Hoover Company

Hot Plates

Houses

IBM

Ice Cream Makers

Ice Crushers

Ideal Home Show

IKEA

Industrial Design and Designers

Irons

Jacuzzi

Jar Openers

Kenwood

Kettles

KitchenAid

Kitchens

Kmart

Landers, Frary and Clark

Lawn Mowers

Lighting

Loudspeakers

Marconi Company

Matsushita

Maytag Corporation

McGraw Electric

Microsoft Corporation

Microwave Ovens

MiniDisc Recorders

Mobile Phones

Modems

The Modern Movement and Appliance Design

Morphy Richards

Motorola, Inc.

Motors, Electric

National Electric Light Association

Nintendo

Obsolescence

Omelette Makers

Philips Electronics

Pifco

Piped Water

Plastics

Popcorn Poppers

Pressure Cookers

Presto

Proctor-Silex

Pyrex

Radio

Rawlplugs

Razors

RCA

Record Players

Refrigerators

Relationship Technology

Remote Controls

Sandwich Toasters

Sears, Roebuck and Company

Security Systems

Servants

Sewing Machines

Showers

Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research

Singer Corporation

Slicers

Slow Cookers/Crock-Pots

Sony Corporation

Sunbeam

Sunray Lamps

Synthetic Fabrics

Tape Recorders

Tea Makers

Tefal

Teflon

Telephones

Television

Texas Instruments

Toasters

Toothbrushes

Trash Compactors

Trouser Presses

Tupperware

Typewriters

Vacuum Cleaners

Videodisc Players

Videophones

Videotape Recorders

Virtual Pets

Vodafone

Waffle Irons

Wallpaper Stripper

Wal-Mart

Washing Machines

Waste Disposal Units

Water Closets

Water Heaters

West Bend

Westinghouse Electric

Whirlpool Corporation

Women and Housework

Workmates

Yogurt Makers

Zanussi

Bibliography

Technical Glossary

Index

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