Technology and Culture
Detroit-Chicago. Society for the History of Technology
Trimestrale
ISSN: 0040-165X
Conservata in: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali
Punto di servizio: Economia; Riv. str. 0585
Consistenza: a. 29, 1988, 1-
Lacune: a. 42, 2001, 1
[ 2030-2021 ] [ 2020-2011 ] [ 2010-2001 ] [ 2000-1991 ] [ 1990-1988 ]
ARTICLES
Michael J. Neufeld, Weimar Culture and Futuristic Technology:
The Rocketry and Spaceflight Fad in Germany, 1923-1933, p. 725
Arthur L. Norberg, High-Technology Calculation in the Early
20th Century: Punched Card Machinery in Business and Government, p. 753
Paul S. Adler, Marx, Machines, and Skill, p. 780
THE COVER DESIGN
Leonid N. Kryzhanovsky, The Lightning Rod in 18th-Century
St. Petersburg: A Note on the Occasion of the Occasion of the
Bicentennial of the Death of Benjamin Franklin, p. 813
RESEARCH NOTE
Kelly R. DeVries, A 1445 Reference to Shipboard Artillery, p. 818
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Samuel A. Batzli, From Heroes to Hiroshima: The National Air
and Space Museum Adjusts Its Point of View, p. 830
Michael R. Williams, “Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters
the Computer Age” at the National Air and Space Museum, p. 838
ESSAY REVIEW-FROM THE A-BOMB TO STAR WARS: EDWARD TELLER’S
HISTORY
Barton J. Bernstein, Edward Teller, Better a Shield than a
Sword: Perspectives on Defense and Technology, p. 846
Book reviews, p. 862
Memorial, p. 916
ARTICLES
Bryan Pfaffenberger, The Harsh Facts of Hydraulics: Technology
and Society in Sri Lanka’s Colonization Schemes, p. 361
Seymour H. Mauskopf, Chemistry and Cannon: J.-L. Proust and
Gunpowder Analysis, p. 398
Robert V. Kubicek, The Design of Shallow-Draft Steamers for
the British Empire, 1868-1906, p. 427
THE COVER DESIGN
William Worthington, Jr., The Privy and the Pump: The Matthewman
& Johnson Excavating Device, p. 451
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Duncan Hay, Howard P. Segal, “Made in Maine” at
the Maine State Museum, Augusta, p. 456
Howard P. Segal, “Made in Maine”: A Professor’s
Perspective, p. 463
Awards, p. 469
Organizational notes, p. 488
Conference report, p. 496
ESSAY REVIEW-THE “MILITARY REVOLUTION” REVISITED
Bert S. Hall, Kelly R. DeVries, Geoffrey Parker, The Military
Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800, p. 500
Book reviews, p. 508
Henry Lowood, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology
(1988), p. 561
ARTICLES
Bernward Joerges, Images of Technology in Sociology: Computer
as Butterfly and Bat, p. 203
Samuel K. Coleman, Riken from 1945 to 1948: The Reorganization
of Japan’s Physical and Chemical Research Institute under the
American Occupation, p. 228
RESEARCH NOTE
Donald E. Thomas, Jr., Nazi “Coordination” of Technology:
The Case of the Bavarian Polytechnical Society, p. 251
THE COVER DESIGN
John H. White, Jr., Riding in Style: Palace Cars for the Cattle
Trade, p. 265
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Michael Stratton, Integrating Technological and Social History: “Engines of Change” at the National Museum of American
History, p. 271
David J. Jeremy, The “Emigrants to a New World” Gallery at the Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, p. 278
REVIEW ESSAY
Josef W. Konvitz, Mark H. Rose, Joel A. Tarr, Technology and
the City, p. 284
Book reviews, p. 295
ARTICLES
Bernard S. Bachrach, Rutherford Aris, Military Technology
and Garrison Organization: Some Observations on Anglo-Saxon Military
Thinking in Light of the Burghal Hidage, p. 1
Todd Shallat, Building Waterways, 1802-1861: Science and the
United States Army in Early Public Works, p. 18
Anthony S. Travis, Perkin’s Mauve: Ancestor of the Organic
Chemical Industry, p. 51
Kenneth S. Mernitz, Governmental Research and the Corporate
State: The Rittman Refining Process, p. 83
CONFERENCE REPORT
George F. W. Hauck, Civil Engineering during the Enlightenment-ICOHTEC
Symposium, Madrid, September 5-9, 1988, p. 114
REVIEW ESSAY
John Kenly Smith, Jr., The Scientific Tradition in American
Industrial Research, p. 121
Book reviews, p. 132
ARTICLES
Richard S. Westfall, Floods along the Bisenzio: Science and
Technology in the Age of Galileo, p. 879
David H. Shayt, Stairway Lo Redemption: America’s Encounter
with the British Prison Treadmill, p. 908
Charles A. Ziegler, Technology and the Process of Scientifìc
Discovery: The Case of Cosmic Rays, p. 939
J. Samuel Walker, Nuclear Power and the Environment: The Atomic
Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965-1971, p. 964
COMMENTARY
Bernard S. Finn, Exhibit Reviews-Twenty Years After, p. 879
CONFERENCE AND LIBRARY REPORT
Jane Morley, Technology Transfer in Historical Perspective-the
1988 Scandinavian Symposium on the History of Technology/Historical
Library of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, p. 1004
Communications, p. 1013
Kendall J. Dood, Leland I. Anderson, Ronald R. Kline, Tesla
and the Induction Motor, p. 1013
REVIEW ESSAY
John Staudenmaier, S. J., Pamela Walker Lurito Laird, Advertising
History, p. 1031
Book reviews, p. 1037
ARTICLES
Andrew Jamison, Technology’s Theorists: Conceptions of Innovation
in Relation to Science and Technology Policy, p. 505
Milton Mueller, The Switchboard Problem: Scale, Signaling,
and Organization in Manual Telephone Switching, 1877-1897, p. 534
Peter Neushul, Seaweed for War: California’s World War I Kelp
Industry, p. 561
THE COVER DESIGN
Thomas J. Oertling, A Suction Pump from an Early-16th-Centurv
Shipwreck, p. 584
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Bruce Sinclair, An Agenda for Shot, p. 596
Awards, p. 601
Organizational notes, p. 621
Conference report, p. 628
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Donald C. Jackson, “The Fairmount Waterworks, 1812-1911″, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, p. 635
Kenneth Arnold, The National Atomic Museum, Albuquerque, New
Mexico: Where “Weapon Shapes” Are Not Enough, p. 640
REVIEW ESSAYS
James R. Hansen, Aviation History in the Wider View, p. 643
Pamela E. Mack, Space History, p. 657
Book reviews, p. 666
Memorial, p. 718
Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Christine M. Roysdon, Judith A. Adams,
Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, p. 723
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF CARL W. CONDIT
Guest editor: Sharon Irish, University of Illinois
INTRODUCTION
Sharon Irish, Essays in Honor of Carl W Condit, p. 249
Melvin Kranzberg, A Tribute to Carl W. Condit, p. 255
Debra N. Mancoff, Carl W. Condit’s Publications-a Chronological
Bibliography, 1946-1988, p. 258
ARTICLES
Sergio Luis Sanabria, From Gothic to Renaissance Stereotomy:
The Design Methods of Philibert de l’Orme and Alonso de Vandelvira, p. 266
Robert Mark, David P. Billington, Structural Imperative and
the Origin of New Form, p. 300
John W. Stamper, The Galerie des Machines of the 1889 Paris
World’s Fair, p. 330
Sally A. Kitt Chappell, Urban Ideals and the Design of Railroad
Stations, p. 354
Sharon Irish, A “Machine That Makes the Land Pay”:
The West Street Building in New York, p. 376
Josef W. Konvitz, William J. Wilgus and Engineering Projects
to Improve the Port of New York, 1900-1930, p. 398
Edward W. Constant II, Cause or Consequence: Science, Technology,
and Regulatory Change in the Oil Business in Texas, 1930-1975, p. 426
Book reviews, p. 456
ARTICLES
Carlene Stephens, “The Most Reliable Time”: William
Bond, the New England Railroads, and Time Awareness in 19th-Century
America, p. 1
Ian R. Bartky, The Adoption of Standard Time, p. 25
John M. Jordan, “Society Improved the Way You Can Improve
a Dynamo”: Charles P. Steinmetz and the Politics of Efficiency, p. 57
William J. Hausman, John L. Neufeld, Engineers and Economists:
Historical Perspectives on the Pricing of Electricity, p. 83
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Charles K. Hyde, “The Automobile in American Life”, an Exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, p. 105
Terry S. Reynolds, Iron in the Wilderness: The Michigan Iron
Industry Museum, p. 112
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Terri A. Schorzman, Smithsonian Videohistory Program Symposium-Washington,
D.C., May 5, 1988, p. 118
Jane Morley, International Symposium on Lewis Mumford-Universitv
of Pennsylvania, November 5-7, 1987, p. 122
Book reviews, p. 128
Communications, p. 177
Memorials, p. 189
1989 Membership Directory, p. 215
LABOR HISTORY AND THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
Guest editor: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
INTRODUCTION
Philip Scranton, Labor and Technology, p. 719
ARTICLES
Philip Scranton, None-Too-Porous Boundaries: Labor History
and the History of Technology, p. 722
Robert B. Gordon, Who Turned the Mechanical Ideal into Mechanical
Reality?, p. 744
Patricia A. Cooper, “What This Country Needs Is a Good
Five-Cent Cigar”, p. 779
Michael Nuwer, From Batch to Flow: Production Technology and
Work-Force Skills in the Steel Industry, 1880-1920, p. 808
Stephen Meyer, Technology and the Workplace: Skilled and Production
Workers at Allis-Chalmers, 1900-1941, p. 839
Robert L. Frost, Labor and Technological Innovation in French
Electrical Power, p. 865
RESEARCH NOTE
Geoffrey Tweedale, “Days at the Factories”: A Tour
of Victorian Industry with The Penny Magazine, p. 888
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Laurence F. Gross, “Lobstering and the Maine Coast” at the Maine Maritime Museum, p. 904
David E. Nye, The Workers’ Museum in Copenhagen, p. 909
Book review-Labor and technology, p. 913
Book reviews, p. 943
ARTICLES
John Daniels, Christian Daniels, The Origin of the Sugarcane
Roller Mill, p. 493
W. Bernard Carlson, Academic Entrepreneurship and Engineering
Education: Dugald C. Jackson and the MIT-GE Cooperative Engineering
Course, 1907-1932, p. 536
Sylvia D. Fries, 2001 to 1994: Political Environment and the
Design of NASA’s Space Station System, p. 568
RESEARCH NOTE
Lu Gwei-Djen, Joseph Needham, Phan Chi-Hsing, The Oldest Representation
of a Bombard, p. 594
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Bert S. Hall, “Leonardo da Vinci: Engineer an Architect”, an Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, p. 606
Barbara McLean Ward, “Afther the Revolution” and “New and Different” – Exhibitions at the National Museum
of American History, Washington. D. C., p. 613
Bayla Singer, “The Decorated Machine” at the Chicago
Museum of Science and Industry, p. 619
Miriam R. Levin, “Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900” and “Berlin 1900-1933: Architecture and Design” at
the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, p. 622
Awards, p. 633
Oganizational notes, p. 653
Conference report, p. 661
Book reviews, p. 663
Book notes, p. 713
ARTICLES
Christopher Hamlin, Wiiliam Dibdin and the Idea of Biological
Sewage Treatment, p. 189
Peter Meiksins, The “Revolt of the Engineers” Reconsidered, p. 219
THE COVER DESIGN
William F. Trimble, W. David Lewis, Lytle S. Adams, the Apostle
of Nonstop Airmail Pickup, p. 247
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
Judith A. McGaw, Food for Thought in Philadelphia: “The
Larder Invaded”, p. 266
Suellen Hoy, Remember the Mobro- “Managing Urban Wastes” at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, p. 271
Brian J. Cudahy, “Rails to the Metropolis” at the
New York State Museum, p. 276
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Pamela E. Mack, Forests, Habitats, and Resources: A Conference
in World Environmental History-Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina, April 30-May 2, 1987, p. 281
Joan D. McCoy, Interface ’86: Humanities and Technology-Atlanta,
Georgia, October 23-24, 1986, p. 283
Book reviews, p. 285
Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Crhristine M. Roysdon, Judith A. Adams,
Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, p. 338
ARTICLES
Gail Fowler Mohanty, Experimentation in Textile Technology,
1788-1790, and Its Impact on Handloom Weaving and Weavers in
Rhode Island, p. 1
Claude S. Fischer, “Touch Someone”: The Telephone
Industry Discovers Sociability, p. 32
CONTROVERSY: ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, AND/OR ENGINEERING SCIENCE?
Michael Fores, Transformations and the Myth of “Engineering
Science”: Magic in a White Coat, p. 62
Edwin T. Layton, Science as a Form of Action: The Role of
the Engineering Sciences, p. 82
David F. Channell, Engineering Science as Theory and Practice, p. 98
THE COVER DESIGN
Judit Brody, The Széchenyi Chain Bridge at Budapest, p. 104
EXHIBIT REVIEWS
John M. Staudenmaier, S. J., The Giant Wakens: Revising Henry
Ford’s History Book, p. 118
Charles K. Hyde, “Streamlining America”, an Exhibit
at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan, p. 125
Book reviews, p. 130
Announcement, p. 188