Klaus-Jürgen Sembach

Tracks, Bogies, Concourses The Aesthetics of Machinery in Victorian England In the year 1776, as the colonies in America were making their Déclaration of Indepen-dence, James Watt's first successful steam engine began to run. And so, at the very moment of losing her first Empire, Britain was...

A history of twentieth-century design will repeatedly find itself recognising traditions and identifying revivals, rééditions, and new discoveries, which are based on models dating far back into the nineteenth century. One cannot avoid realising that many designs which we are tempted to regard...