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Unglue.it: a crafty new way to resurrect lost classics

11 August 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

An innovative website is offering readers the chance to turn out-of-print titles into free ebooks

In 1771, Matthew Boulton, manufacturer and steam pioneer, promised to pay Dr Darwin of Lichfield £1,000, should he be able to deliver "an Instrument called an organ that is capable of pronouncing the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and Ten Commandments in the Vulgar Tongue". History does not record what Dr Darwin managed, and 240 years later we're still struggling with Siri, but a passion for technological advances remains undimmed.

Many such stories are collected in Humphrey Jennings's classic Pandaemonium: The Coming of the Machine As Seen By Contemporary Observers. Jennings spent a lifetime collecting the material within, and it was to this record that Frank Cottrell Boyce referred Danny Boyle and his team for the first segment of the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, inspiring the spectacle of the industrial revolution. Unfortunately, if you go »

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