About the book
Humphrey Jennings's anthology gathers writing by people who witnessed the United Kingdom's Industrial Revolution as it arrived, grew and changed the country. Jennings, a documentary film-maker, collected the excerpts from 1937 until his early death in 1950, and his daughter Mary-Louise Jennings and Mass Observation co-founder Charles Madge brought the work to print after he died. The title comes from the first excerpt, John Milton's description in Paradise Lost of the building of Pandaemonium, the capital of Hell. Director Danny Boyle made the book required reading for his team on the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, whose industrial section was named Pandemonium in tribute to Milton and Jennings.
Sam Altman put it on Y Combinator's winter reading list, calling it an incredible read and saying that, in the middle of the software revolution, it is worth seeing what people thought while the industrial revolution was under way.
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Sam Altman (Partner & President/Y Combinator)
This is an incredible read, and as we sit in the middle of the software revolution it's worthwhile to see what people thought as the industrial revolution was happening.
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