Wolfgang Schivelbusch, in the second and third chapters of his book Technologies based on exhaustion of resources inform our current economic and Might cause the obsolescence of the railroad? How might the evolution of Of "perfect adjustment" arise, SchivelbuschĪrgues that the railroad "completes detachment from nature." Why has ÂĪs the railroad's evolution continues and greater innovation and the need Travel the route are distinctly separate. Road system where the "route" and the "means" by which you Illustrates the public's understanding of the railway system and steam engineĪs one entity contrasting from that of the a river or Mechanics as the new natural order, while the horse drawn carriage, nowĬonsidered to be unsafe and unnatural in motion, "would become the amateur The public's perception of what is "natural," to change to smooth Issues of technology and fear and how might they relate? What might this loss of perception look like in paintings of the time?  How might representation of railway imageryĭiffer based on the perspective of a pro mechanization versusĪnti-mechanization?  What are some contemporary "soul" as an anti-aesthetic that lessened the beauty of the journey. Nature," loss of the perception of spatial distance, and loss of Transportation's "loss of a communicative relationship between man and Opposition to railway travel pointed to the speedy Technology, however, would not proceed without dissent. How the physical "regularity, uniformity, unlimited duration, andĪcceleration" were interpreted as superior qualities. Intensity, and the number of transportation enterprises." Schivelbusch uses a passage by James Adamson to illustrate Resulting in an increase in the number of "traveled routes, traffic "railroad movement," characterized by overall increase in speed, thus The nineteenth century marked the beginnings of the Take the locomotion from a tool of work to instrument of traffic. Horse-driven wagons as coal becomes cheaper than food used to feed theĭescribes that it is the English, with their concentration of coal productionĪnd their perception of coal as "the endlessly available fuel," who  The locomotive, born in the mine fields of Newcastle, England to transport coal from shafts to the river systems, replace Preference shift toward coal and iron, and the resulting development of steamĪ pinnacle with Oliver Evans' high-pressure engine, thus making this improvedĮngine highly efficient and capable of mobile use. Pre-industrial material used for both construction and as combustible fuel, asĪ transition point signified by a process of "denaturalization," a In the "Mechanization of Motive Power" Schivelbusch recognizes the exhaustion of wood, the major Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Railway Journey (chapters 1 and the first
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