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(DESIGN.) Evans, I. O. The World of To-Morrow, A Junior Book of Forecasts. Illustrated with 24 "Diaphane" transparencies describing the author's forecasts for inventions and the world to come. 4to, photo-pictorial transparency stiff covers ("Rhodoid," advertised as stainless and washable) with a black-lettered yellow cloth backstrip, moderate scuffing and toning. London: Denis Archer, 1933
first edition. The fantastical inventions are depicted through conceptual photographs of the "Office of the Future," a "solar motor," "Gyrotiller," the "World League of Peace," and other marvelous contraptions such as wind and tidal generators, mid-ocean airports, farming mechanisms, and a "Super-Calculator."
