Yesterday's tomorrows : the Powerhouse Museum and its precursors 1880-2005
Davison, Graeme, 1940-2005
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For 125 years, or over 44 000 days, the Powerhouse Museum and its precursors have been Sydney's window on the changing world of science, technology and the applied arts.
Main title:
Yesterday's tomorrows : the Powerhouse Museum and its precursors 1880-2005 / by Graeme Davison (Editor)and Kimberley Webber (Editor)
Imprint:
Haymarket N.S.W. Powerhouse Publishing in association with UNSW Press 2005
Collation:
288 p colour illustrations timeline
Contents:
Founding - Exhibiting - The good old days! A visitor remembers - The first of its kind - Prescribing: saluatory instruction at the museum - Instructing: the museum and technical education - Empowering: applied research and the commercial museum 1880-1978 - Improving: art in the service of industry 1880-1940 - The many sides of Charles Laseron - The Guildhall gift of British antiquities - Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson - The secret life of the Strasburg clock - Earnshaw's excellent timekeepers - The Golden Fleece: new life for a once lost collection - Remembering Lawrence Hargrave - The Comet Windmills archive - Ernie Crome Museum philanthropist - A computer in place of a hairdresser - The heroic age of steam - Florence Broadhurst's fabulous foils - The art of Peter Chang - Dreaming: power house, dreaming house - Realising: memories, reminiscences and thoughts - Positioning: on site and in situ - Continuing: into the future - Notes - Picture credits - Further reading - Acknowledgments - Contributors - Index
ISBN:
0868409855 (pbk)
Dewey class:
069.0994 YES
Local class:
069.0994
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
136084
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Reference | 069.0994 YES | Not for loan (Set: 10 Feb 2016) |