1905 TECHNOLOGY etc. - A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE - THE EXPECTATIONS OF AN OPTIMIST BY BARON RUSSELL

"As it is not at all likely that any means of suspending the effect of air-resistance can ever be devised, a flying-machine must always be slow and cumbersome. . . . But as a means of amusement, the idea of aerial travel has great promise"  Baron Russell

"It is difficult to understand how the old-world fashion of … ‘washing up’ plates and dishes can have endured so long. Of course, in the new age, these utensils will be simply dropped one by one into an automatic receptacle; swilled clean by water delivered with force and charged with nascent oxygen; dried by electric heat; and polished by electric force; being finally oxygen-bathed as a superfluous act of sanitary cleanliness before being sent to table again. And all that has come off the plates will drop through the scullery floor into the destructor beneath to be oxygenated and made away with".. Baron Russell

Contents: Rate of Progress, Housing,  FutureTravel, Recording telephones, population, Man of business, Newspaper of Futgure and future of newspaper, utilising the sea, march of science, Education, Religion, fine arts, literature, age of economies, Law,Electricity, House of future, Advertisements, Problem of Power, Food of future, Psychology, Education A.D. 2000, Morality, Teaching machines, Games, lessons, Memory training, Mathematics, Crimes, criminals., Marriage, Scientific legislation, Interdepence,

T FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1905 OLD ANTIQUE HARDBACK NAVY BOOK 31 PAGES HANDCUT, WELL BINDED NAVY BLUE BOOK, NO PENCIL INSCRIPTIONS ON FIRST PAGES. TEXT CLEAN WITH INDEX