The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age

Hulten, K.G.P. The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968.

Arguably the most useful work on machines in the graphic and plastic arts in the 20th c., plus designs for machines and real-world machines for a large section of Western history up to the late 1960s. Note date: For all the ways the years around 1968 are important, the move from "the Mechanical Age" through the age of the electromechanical and into the electronic and cybernetic may prove the most important.

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