Inside the Machine by Megan Prelinger, 2015
Art and Invention in the Electronic Age
A visual history of the electronic age captures the collision of technology and art—and our collective visions of the future.
A hidden history of the twentieth century's brilliant innovations—as seen through art and images of electronics that fed the dreams of millions.
"The New Deal has restricted the hours of labor and thereby has introduced a tremendous amount of New Leisure. . . . Sooner or later this “Niagara of leisure” will have to be absorbed. . . . A large part will be devoted to such electronic entertainment as radio, sound-pictures, home talkies, phonograph reproduction, synthetic musical instruments, and eventually, television."
—Electronics magazine editorial, September 1933
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