Extinct : a compendium of obsolete objects / edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Miranda Critchley.
Blending architecture, design, and technology, a visual tour through futures past via the objects we have replaced, left behind, and forgotten.So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused--superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgot...
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Reaktion Books, Limited,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner and Miranda Critchley
- Acoustic location device / Bryony Quinn
- Action office acoustic area conditioner : the 'maskitball' / Kristen Gallerneaux
- Air-curtain roof / Laurent Stalder
- All-plastic house / Carola Hein
- Arsenic wallpaper / Lucinda Hawksley
- Arundel print / Tanya Harrod
- Asbestos-cement Rondavel / Hannah le Roux
- Ashtray / Catherine Slessor
- Atmospheric railway / Niall McLaughlin
- Cab-fare map / Paul Dobraszczyk
- Central heating / Mario Carpo
- Chaparral 2J : the 'sucker car' Eirik A.B. Bøhn
- Chatelaine / Iris Moon
- The clapper / Charles Rice
- Close-constraint key / Ben Vandenput
- Concorde / Thomas McQuillan
- ConvAirCar / Emily M. Orr
- Cybernetic anthropomorphic machines / Lydia Kallipoliti
- Cybersyn / Hugo Palmarola and Pedro Ignacio Alonso
- Cyclegraph / Barbara Penner
- Cyclops 1 / Thandi Loewenson
- Dougong / Guang Yu Ren and Edward Denison
- Dymaxion house / Barry Bergdoll
- Edison's anti-gravitation under-clothing / Bob Nicholson
- Electrotype pattern / Angus Patterson
- Fisher-Price peg figures / Mark Morris
- Flashcube / Harriet Harriss
- Flying boat / David Edgerton
- Glass lantern slide / Daniel M. Abramson
- Globe of Mars / Lucy Garrett
- High-pressure water mains / Adrian Forty
- House environment / Eszter Steierhoffer
- 'Hummingbird' taxi / Lucinda Hawksley
- Incandescent light bulb / Mari Hvattum
- Integrated radio/TV cabinet / Anders V. Munch
- Invacar: the 'invalid carriage' / Elizabeth Guffey
- Kodachrome / Tacita Dean
- Letraset / Robin Kinross
- Leucotome / Carsten Timmermann
- Manchester pail system : 'Dolly Vardens' / Barbara Penner
- Mechanical polygraph / Danielle S. Willkens
- Medical wax model / Thomas Kador
- Memo / Adrian Forty
- Milk spoon / Hugo Palmarola
- MiniDisc / Priya Khanchandani
- Minitel / Shahed Saleem
- Moon towers / Bryony Quinn
- Nikini / Rachel Siobhán Tyler
- 'No Nonsense' fountain pen / Pippo Ciorra
- North Bucks Monorail City / Gillian Darley
- Notgeld / Tom Wilkinson
- Oil from coal / David Edgerton
- Optical telegraph / David Trotter
- Paper aeroplane ticket / Gökçe Günel
- Paper dress / Olivia Horsfall Turner
- Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass / Richard Taws
- Phase-change chemical heat-storage barrel / Daniel Barber
- Player piano / Hal Foster
- Pneumatic postal system / Jacob Paskins
- Polaroid SX-70 / Deyan Sudjic
- Public standards of length / David Rooney
- Pyrophone / Tim Boon
- Realistic wax mannequin / Maude Bass-Krueger
- Rotring, Letratone, MiniCAD / Tony Fretton
- Scaphander : 'Man-boat' / Steven Connor
- Scarificator / Thomas Kador
- Serving hatch / Tim Ainsworth Anstey
- Sinclair C5 / Simon Sadler
- Skirt grip / Amy de la Haye
- Slide rule / Adrian Forty
- Slotted screwdriver / Richard Wentworth
- Space frame / Catherine Slessor
- Stanley 55 combination plane / Nikos Magouliotis
- Telephone table / Edwin Heathcote
- Teletype / James Purdon
- Théâtrophone / Carlotta Darò
- Think city electric vehicle / Kjetil Fallan
- Trombe wall / Paul Bouet
- T-shirt plastic bag / Johanna Agerman Ross
- Ultratemp® roasting rack / Christian Parreno
- UV-radiated artificial beach / Maarten Liefooghe
- Vertical filing cabinet / Zeynep Çelik Alexander
- Water bag / Sarah Bell
- Writing case / Barry Curtis
- Zeppelin / Jeremy Myerson.