2006
DOI: 10.1007/bf02972108
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Les techniques dans l'espace public

Abstract: Le but de cet article est d'interroger les transformations culturelles qui accompagnent la commercialisation des inventions, phénomène majeur de l'essor marchand et consumériste au XVIIIe siècle. Les stratégies commerciales des inventeurs sont fondées sur une médiatisation croissante, mêlant rhétoriques visuelles (démonstrations, spectacles, expositions) et recours à l'imprimé: annonces de presse, affiches, prospectus, modes d'emploi, livrets d'utilisation. L'information et le savoir techniques jouent un rôle … Show more

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“…L'importance de la géométrie pratique pour la conception de l'objet portatif est confirmée par les savoirs et les savoirfaire affichés dans la correspondance des artisans ou dans les annonces à travers lesquelles ils présentent leurs inventions au public. Dans une lettre adressée au marquis de Marigny 1727-1781 73 .…”
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“…L'importance de la géométrie pratique pour la conception de l'objet portatif est confirmée par les savoirs et les savoirfaire affichés dans la correspondance des artisans ou dans les annonces à travers lesquelles ils présentent leurs inventions au public. Dans une lettre adressée au marquis de Marigny 1727-1781 73 .…”
Section: Cultures Techniques Et Objet Portatifunclassified
“…Inventors attracted the public by combining all kinds of print resources, advertisements and articles in newspapers, in guides, in trade directories, in transactions, tracts, and books. 68 Short advertisements could be handed to pedestrians; longer leaflets were reserved for potential customers, either those buying ready-made, or commissions that required a visit to the workshop, especially for expensive goods such as pumps, stoves, and coaches. "How-to-use" leaflets could also be given to the customer on buying an article, and this was a strong argument in advertisements: information was delivered with the product itself.…”
Section: Artisans and The Commercialization Of Knowledgementioning
confidence: 99%
“…39 "English people" he wrote, "try to improve their production and decrease the cost of production in order to increase quantities at a fixed price; in France and elsewhere this happens in the opposite way, appearance is united to the attempt to produce at a lower price". 40 If the power of steam, the palatial architecture of factories and the wonders of mechanical technologies attracted foreign visitors, 41 their sensitivities were deeply offended at the sight of industrial cities in which physical and moral degradation was seen to be omnipresent. If anything, the representations of the environments in which the inhabitants of Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield and other new towns lived and worked by European and American visitors, are more evocative and negative than anything published by their English contemporaries.…”
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