Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1954 ) presents a book-burning society in which wall television and hearing-aid radios enslave men's minds ; ;

First published in 1953 by Ballantine Books, Fahrenheit 451 is twice as long as " The Fireman ".

In a scene written years later by Bradbury for the Fahrenheit 451 play, Beatty invites Montag to his house where he shows him walls of books left to molder on their shelves.

Bradbury went even further to elaborate his meaning, saying specifically that the culprit in Fahrenheit 451 is not the state — it is the people.

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades.

Entitled Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation, the paperback graphic adaptation was illustrated by Tim Hamilton.

The script, which was written by Robert Alan Aurthur, combined plot ideas from Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four ; Bradbury sued and eventually won on appeal.

In 2006, the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company produced and performed the New York City premiere of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 at 59E59 Theaters.

The Off-Broadway theatre The American Place Theatre presented a one man show adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 as a part of their 2008 – 2009 Literature to Life season.

Fahrenheit 451 inspired the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production " Time Has Fallen Asleep in the Afternoon Sunshine ", which was performed at the Birmingham Central Library in April 2012.

The film Equilibrium was heavily influenced by Fahrenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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The hotter the pile gets, the more often added air and water is necessary ; the air / water balance is critical to maintaining high temperatures ( 135 °- 160 ° Fahrenheit / 50 °-70 ° Celsius ) until the materials are broken down.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

The Fahrenheit scale later was redefined to make the freezing-to-boiling interval exactly 180 degrees, a convenient value as 180 is a highly composite number, meaning that it is evenly divisible into many fractions.

Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 1686 – 1736 ).

On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (° F ) and the boiling point 212 ° F ( at standard atmospheric pressure ).

Therefore, a degree on the Fahrenheit scale is of the interval between the freezing point and the boiling point.

The Rankine temperature scale was created to use degree intervals the same size as those of the Fahrenheit scale, such that a temperature difference of one degree Rankine ( 1 R ) is equal to a difference of 1 ° F, except that absolute zero is 0 R – the same way that the Kelvin temperature scale matches the Celsius scale, except that absolute zero is 0 K. The Fahrenheit scale uses ( in the same manner as the later Celsius scale ) the symbol ° to denote a point on the temperature scale and the letter F to indicate the use of the Fahrenheit scale ( e. g. " Gallium melts at 85. 5763 ° F "), as well as to denote a difference between temperatures or an uncertainty in temperature ( e. g. " The output of the heat exchanger experiences an increase of 72 ° F " and " Our standard uncertainty is ± 5 ° F ").

Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.

Cover of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine Books No. 41, First Edition, 1953.

* Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), a novel by Ray Bradbury, portrays a bookless future society, with omnipresent electronic media and wall-sized two-way home televisions.

Guy Montag is the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's dystopian 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451.

In Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), a character named Faber constructs a hidden radio earpiece that he uses to guide the thoughts and actions of the book's protagonist, Guy Montag.

* In the 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, Faber tells Montag, " So if you like, I'll read you to sleep nights.

" The thought-destroying force " of McCarthyism influenced Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ).

Social criticism can also be expressed in a fictional form, e. g., in a revolutionary novel like The Iron Heel by Jack London or in dystopian novels like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World ( 1932 ) or George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) or Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ), children's books or films.

In 1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 were honoured with the Prometheus Award for their contributions to dystopian literature.

The Alton Estate has featured as a film and television location, Fahrenheit 451 ( 1966 ) used some of the estate as its backdrop for a bleak dystopian society of the future, and Thames Television's film division Euston Films used the Danebury Avenue area of the estate to film the opening scene's of Sweeney 2 ( 1978 )-the sequel to the film Sweeney!

* Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel where books are outlawed and it is the job of a " fireman " to burn them.

* " The Ballad of Maxwell Demon " contains the lyrics: " The boys from Quadrant 44 with their vicious metal hounds never come ' round here no more ," referencing Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451.

Escapist societies are common in dystopian novels ; for example, in Fahrenheit 451 society uses television and " seashell radios " to escape a life with strict regulations and the threat of the forthcoming war.

The character of Thaddeus Araman is a recognisable dystopian spokesman in the mould of Beatty in Fahrenheit 451 and Mustapha Mond in Brave New World, both of whom also acknowledge the limitations of their societies ' control mechanisms.