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the century humanity outsourced its muscles and immediately started missing them.
means the period roughly 1880 to 1945 when mass production, electricity, and mechanization reshaped work, cities, and daily life.
from coined as factories shifted from steam to electric power and assembly lines, popularized by 1920s-30s art, design, and philosophy obsessed with speed, steel, and the factory as the new cathedral.
moma show1934 exhibition literally titled machine art
ford's giftmodel t cut a car's assembly time to 93 minutes
dark twinsame tech powered trench warfare's mechanized slaughter
chaplin's verdictmodern times, 1936, mocked man as cog
for instance
ford river rouge plant — michigan complex employing 100000 workers by 1929
empire state building — built in 410 days using steel-frame mass techniques, 1931
bauhaus — german school, 1919-1933, designed for machine-made living
metropolis — fritz lang's 1927 film, workers literally fused with machines