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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Trees, Animals, Engines
Magazine Machinescapes
Wolves, Wheels, Pistons, Petunias
Nature’s Mechanisms
2 Instability, Waste, Efficiency
Instability
The New Utilitarians
Waste
Efficiency
3 The Engineer
Looking Backward, Looking Forward
Civilizer of Our Century
The Soviet of Technicians
Dynamo, Virgin, Engineer
Coda: Herbert Hoover
4 Danger and Opportunity
Wright’s Blocks, Alexander’s Bridge
Victoriana
Danger
Opportunity: Imagination Ex Machina I
Opportunity: Imagination Ex Machina II
5 Machines Made of Words
Kinetic Poetics
Rapid Transit: The Commuter’s Imagination
Medicine, Moonlight, and the Efficient Moment
Machines Made of Words
Postscript: Skyscraper
References
Index
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