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EAN13
9791041985388
Éditeur
CULTUREA
Date de publication
12 février 2024
Nombre de pages
68
Dimensions
22 x 17 x 0,5 cm
Poids
135 g
Langue
eng

Outspinning The Spider

John Kimberly Mumford

CULTUREA

Prix public : 9,99 €

It is the wire age. Modern life, in all its intricate bearings, runs on wire. Wire everywhere; in the heavens above, the earth beneath and the waters under the earth. In all the legerdemain of science, which has put nature in bondage, wire is the indispensable agent. A curious, slow, finical little trade at which the smiths of forgotten races toiled and pottered and ruined their eyesight for unnumbered thousands of years has become, within less than a century, under the spur of modern need and modern driving power, the pack-bearer of the world and the mainspring of every activity from the cradle to the grave. Wire still makes toys and gewgaws as it always did, but it is no longer the plaything of vanity alone. Cancel wire and wire rope and their concomitant, "flat wire," from the inventory of human assets tomorrow, and the world would stop stock-still.
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