Thursday, September 14, 2017
Didn't seem amazing at the time
An amazing casual picture from a 1935 British radio magazine:
In the Tungsram factory in Budapest, hi-tech industry and natural culture coexisted peacefully and beautifully.
Can we learn from this? No. We are proudly and arrogantly dead. We do not learn.
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Contrarian sidenote: Tungsram's workers were more shapely and graceful than American workers, but Tungsram's tubes were LESS shapely and graceful than American tubes. Bleah. Salient because Hungarian industrial designers were the best in the world for many decades. Ugliness was not the norm.
In the Tungsram factory in Budapest, hi-tech industry and natural culture coexisted peacefully and beautifully.
Can we learn from this? No. We are proudly and arrogantly dead. We do not learn.
= = = = =
Contrarian sidenote: Tungsram's workers were more shapely and graceful than American workers, but Tungsram's tubes were LESS shapely and graceful than American tubes. Bleah. Salient because Hungarian industrial designers were the best in the world for many decades. Ugliness was not the norm.Labels: skill-estate
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