Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Acoustic Location Device
Action Office Acoustic Area Conditioner: The ‘Maskitball’
Air-curtain Roof
All-plastic House
Arsenic Wallpaper
Arundel Print
Asbestos-cement Rondavel
Ashtray
Atmospheric Railway
Cab-fare Map
Central Heating
Chaparral 2J: The ‘Sucker Car’
Chatelaine
The Clapper
Close-constraint Key
Concorde
ConvAirCar
Cybernetic Anthropomorphic Machines
Cybersyn
Cyclegraph
Cyclops 1
Dougong
Dymaxion House
Edison’s Anti-gravitation Under-clothing
Electrotype Pattern
Fisher-Price Peg Figures
Flashcube
Flying Boat
Glass Lantern Slide
Globe of Mars
High-pressure Water Mains
House Environment
‘Hummingbird’ Taxi
Incandescent Light Bulb
Integrated Radio/TV Cabinet
Invacar: The ‘Invalid Carriage’
Kodachrome
Letraset
Leucotome
Manchester Pail System: ‘Dolly Vardens’
Mechanical Polygraph
Medical Wax Model
Memo
Milk Spoon
MiniDisc
Minitel
Moon Towers
Nikini
‘No Nonsense’ Fountain Pen
North Bucks Monorail City
Notgeld
Oil from Coal
Optical Telegraph
Paper Aeroplane Ticket
Paper Dress
Pasilalinic-sympathetic Compass
Phase-change Chemical Heat-storage Barrel
Player Piano
Pneumatic Postal System
Polaroid SX-70
Public Standards of Length
Pyrophone
Realistic Wax Mannequin
Rotring, Letratone, MiniCAD
Scaphander: ‘Man-boat’
Scarificator
Serving Hatch
Sinclair C5
Skirt Grip
Slide Rule
Slotted Screwdriver
Space Frame
Stanley 55 Combination Plane
Telephone Table
Teletype
Théâtrophone
Think City Electric Vehicle
Trombe Wall
T-shirt Plastic Bag
Ultratemp® Roasting Rack
UV-radiated Artificial Beach
Vertical Filing Cabinet
Water Bag
Writing Case
Zeppelin
Biographies
References and Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements