Accelerating modernity.

Discusses time-space compression in the invention of the airplane. Author's view on the social construction of speed, time and space; Comparison of two modernist perceptions of the airplane; Proclamation of the annihilation of time and space and plasticity of reality in 1910 by the Italian Futurist...

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Published in:	Journal of Transport History Vol. 26; no. 2; pp. 98 - 118
Main Author:	Simonsen, Dorthe Gert
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Sep2005
Subjects:	Airplanes Spacetime History of transportation Aeronautics Italy
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Summary:	Discusses time-space compression in the invention of the airplane. Author's view on the social construction of speed, time and space; Comparison of two modernist perceptions of the airplane; Proclamation of the annihilation of time and space and plasticity of reality in 1910 by the Italian Futurist movement.