1900 House : Featuring Extracts from the Personal Diaries of Joyce and Paul Bowler and Their Family

Sturgis, Matthew, McCrum, Mark

ISBN 10: 0752217119 / ISBN 13: 9780752217116

Edité par Channel Four Books, 1999

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. N° de réf. du vendeur GRP11004094

Synopsis :

This title accompanies Channel 4's programme that reveals just how radically life has been transformed by a century of science and technology. This "living experiment" transports a family, with all their technological dependencies, back to 1900 to live for three months in a house restored to the exact specifications of the era. As the family struggle to adjust to these strange conditions in which electricity, plumbing, central heating, basic hygiene and all the other essentials that we now take for granted have not yet been discovered, the real difference science has made to our lives becomes amusingly clear. For the three months the family live in this 1900 house with gas lighting, coal fires, candlelight, carbolic soaps and an outside privy. They dress in starched collars, wash their clothes with a "dolly", haul coal up the stairs and use an earth closet instead of a flushing toilet. Revealing and entertaining, combining scientific discovery with surprising insights into everyday life, this book is an accessible approach to the history of science.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : 1900 House : Featuring Extracts from the ...
Éditeur : Channel Four Books
Date d'édition : 1999
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Good