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MECHANIZATION TAKES COMMAND (743 pp.) —Siegfried Gledlon— Oxford ($12.50).
Many people have wondered what mechanization is doing to man; nobody yet has investigated, documented, and illustrated the question to the extent of this enormous and fascinating book.
Brainchild of Switzerland's 55-year-old Professor Giedion—whose Space, Time and Architecture (1941) was a notable technical study—Mechanization Takes Command takes a tremendous stab at measuring the changeable human animal against the tools and technical appliances which have been associated with him from the early records of history to the present day. Professor Giedion holds that "the sun is mirrored even in a coffee spoon," looks for the...
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