JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
In browsing bits and pieces of a January-June 1922 volume of the Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig) I took notice of several ads that appeared in the back of each weekly issue. Cars. Fast cars. Fast cars going fast. It occurred to me that I really didn’t have any knowledge about when “speed” was shown in the sale of an automobile, though these ads were definitely in attendance here in 1922:
The are other ads to follow, images depicting great speed…though it strikes me that these sorts of displays come a little late in the history of the depiction of speed, especially given the experimentation in the art world with space and time. I’ll have a look at earlier volumes to see if I can determine when the ads began to appear, though it seems to my intuition and deep memory that 1922 is actually “early”.
