An analysis of the work of the most popular science popularizers in the Netherlands, late 1940s to 1960s, who offered a romantic view of technology as an alternative to the then common pessimistic cog-in-the-machine view.

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van Lente, D. (2015). The romance of technology in an age of extremes. Leonard de Vries' Hobby Clubs, 1945-1965. ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology, 21, 109–125. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/103905