Tinkering
Subtitle: Consumers Reinvent The Early Automobile
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: June 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780812238815
Subjects: Motor cars: general interest; Social history; 20th century; Transportation, Automotive; Automotive - History; Transportation; Automotive; USA; United States; Automobile industry and trade; Automobiles; History
First sentence: In 1915, Emily Post wrote one of the first accounts of transcontinental motor travel in the United States, By Motor to the Golden Gate.
Description: "In the first decades of motor travel, between 1900 and 1940, Americans were buying automobiles in record numbers. Cars were becoming more easily affordable, not only for high-income families but for middle-class families as well. As they bought, they redesigned. By examining the ways Americans creatively adapted their automobiles, Tinkering takes a fresh look at automotive design from the bottom up, as a process that included manufacturers, engineers, designers, advice experts, and consumers, from savvy buyers to grass-roots inventors."--BOOK JACKET.