Author: PRIDMORE, JAY
Title: Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Description: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0810942895. 160 pages including index and 151 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Relates how the museum was founded by Chicago businessman Julius Rosenwald and how it was installed in the imposing Palace of Fine Arts, an architectural monument from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Then he leads an entertaining and informative tour of the Museum, featuring the incredibly diverse exhibits in five "zones" - Energy, Transportation, Space and Defense, The Human Body, and Communications. Traces the fascinating development of twentieth-century technology. Remainder mark upon bottom edge, else as new.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; MUSEUMS TRAVEL TOURS POINTS INTEREST Pictorial Works Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago 160 pages including index and 151 illustrations, including 68 plates in full color. Relates how the museum was founded by Chicago businessman Julius Rosenwald a. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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