American plastic : a cultural history /

Jeffrey Meikle traces Americans' ambivalent involvement with plastic from Bakelite radios and nylon stockings to Tupperware and polyester suits. He moves easily from the rise of the plastics industry to plastic's symbolic hold on style and the popular imagination. Meikle shows how America&...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meikle, Jeffrey L., 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1995]
Temas:
Plastics > History.
Plastics industry and trade > United States > History.
Matières plastiques > Histoire.
Matières plastiques > Industrie > États-Unis > Histoire.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Plastics
Plastics industry and trade
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Celluloid: from imitation to innovation
  • Bakelite: defining an artificial material
  • Vision and reality in the plastic age
  • An industry takes shape
  • Nylon: domesticating a new synthetic
  • Growing pains: the conversion to postwar
  • Design in plastic: from durable to disposable
  • Material doubts and plastic fallout
  • Beyond plastic: the culture of synthesis.

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