how did new methods of production affect workers in the first years of the twentieth century?
The dynamisation of art in the 20th century and its impact on typographie. by Michael Mahla. As early as the first decades of this century, velocity, machines and films were well-known phenomena. They had a decisive impact on the artists of those days. The introduction of new technologies transcended imagination, changed communication, the artistic point of view, and human consciousness itself.
Electrical generation was the sector with the highest productivity growth in the U.S. in the early twentieth century. After the turn of the century large central stations with high pressure boilers and efficient steam turbines replaced reciprocating steam engines and by 1960 it took 0.9 lb coal per kw-hr. Counting the improvements in mining and transportation the total improvement was by a factor greater than 10.
The computer and computer-like semiconductor devices used in automation are the most significant productivity improving technologies developed in the final decades of the twentieth century; however, their contribution to overall productivity growth was disappointing.
The dynamisation of art in the 20th century and its impact on typographie by Michael Mahla As early as the first decades of this century, velocity, machines and films were well-known phenomena. They had a decisive impact on the artists of those days.