Tinkering : : Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile / / Kathleen Franz.
In the first decades after mass production, between 1913 and 1939, middle-class Americans not only bought cars but also enthusiastically redesigned them. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a p...
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Franz, Kathleen, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Tinkering : Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile / Kathleen Franz. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©2005 1 online resource (232 p.) : 22 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Automobiles in the Machine Age -- 1. What Consumers Wanted -- 2. Women's Ingenuity -- 3. Consumers Become Inventors -- 4. A Tinkerer's Story -- 5. The Automotive Industry Takes the Stage -- Epilogue: Tinkering from Customizing to Car Talk -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the first decades after mass production, between 1913 and 1939, middle-class Americans not only bought cars but also enthusiastically redesigned them. 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, advice experts, and consumers in various guises.Franz argues that automobile ownership opened new possibilities for ingenuity among consumers even as large corporations came to control innovation. Franz weaves together a variety of sources, from serial fiction to corporate documents, to explore tinkering as a form of authority in a culture that valued ingenuity. Women drivers represented one group of consumers who used tinkering to advance their claim to social autonomy. Some canny drivers moved beyond modifying their individual cars to become independent inventors, patenting and selling automotive accessories for the burgeoning national demand for aftermarket products. Earl S. Tupper was one such tinkerer who went on to invent Tupperware.These savvy tinkerers worked in a changing landscape of invention shaped increasingly by automotive giants. By the 1930s, Ford and General Motors worked to change the popular discourse of ingenuity and used the world's fairs of the Depression as a stage to promote a hierarchy of innovation. Franz not only demonstrates the entrepreneurial spirit of American consumers but she engages larger historical questions about gender, consumption and ingenuity while charting the impact corporate expansion on tinkering during the first half of the twentieth century. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022) Automobile industry and trade United States History. Automobiles United States History. Transportation, Automotive United States History. American Studies. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh American History. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110459548 print 9780812221589 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201932 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812201932 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812201932/original |
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