Technology and Culture
Volume 49, Number 4, October 2008
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Scholars and Miners: Dowsing and the Freiberg Mining Academy
pp. 833-859
Purity and Theory: Theoretical Tools at Ponts et Chaussées, circa 1800
pp. 860-883
Charles Grafton Page’s Experiment with a Spiral Conductor
pp. 884-907
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Collapse and Expand: Architecture and Tuberculosis Therapy in Montreal, 1909, 1933, 1954
pp. 908-942
The Atomic Hero: Robert Oppenheimer and the Making of Scientific Icons in the Early Cold War
pp. 943-966
On the Cover
An Image mise en abyme
pp. 967-973
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Essays
Toward a Transnational History of Technology: Meanings, Promises, Pitfalls
pp. 974-994
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A Car for the Great Asian Multitude
pp. 995-1001
On Climate, Cars, and Literary Theory
pp. 1002-1009
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Exhibit Review
Classics Revisited
From Progressivism to Engineering Studies: Edwin T. Layton’s The Revolt of the Engineers
pp. 1018-1024
Book Reviews
New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome
pp. 1025-1030
RoboCop Dissected: Man-Machine and Mind-Body in the Enlightenment
pp. 1036-1044
Articles
The Mindful Hand: Inquiry and Invention from the Late Renaissance to Early Industrialisation (review)
pp. 1045-1046
Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (review)
pp. 1047-1048
Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power, and Representation (review)
pp. 1049-1050
Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England (review)
pp. 1050-1051
The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (review)
pp. 1052-1053
Telegraphic Realism: Victorian Fiction and Other Information Systems (review)
pp. 1054-1055
Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London (review)
pp. 1055-1056
Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800–2001 (review)
pp. 1057-1058
Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West (review)
pp. 1059-1060
Energy Metropolis: An Environmental History of Houston and the Gulf Coast (review)
pp. 1060-1062
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (review)
pp. 1062-1063
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, vol. 6: Electrifying New York and Abroad, April 1881–March 1883 (review)
pp. 1064-1065
Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels (review)
pp. 1065-1067
Nearest Thing to Heaven: The Empire State Building and American Dreams (review)
pp. 1067-1069
The Global Environment and World Politics (review)
pp. 1069-1070
Communication and Empire: Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930 (review)
pp. 1071-1072
Networking Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Shaping of Europe, 1850–2000 (review)
pp. 1073-1074
From Pigeons to News Portals: Foreign Reporting and the Challenge of New Technology (review)
pp. 1074-1076
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (review)
pp. 1076-1077
Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (review)
pp. 1077-1079
Radio’s America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture (review)
pp. 1079-1080
Crossing the Ether: British Public Service Radio and Commercial Competition, 1922–1945 (review)
pp. 1081-1082
Body Shots: Early Cinema’s Incarnations (review)
pp. 1082-1084
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838–1952 (review)
pp. 1084-1085
“Politique de la grandeur” versus “Made in Germany”: Politische Kulturgeschichte der Technik am Beispiel der PAL-SECAM-Kontroverse (review)
pp. 1085-1087
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime (review)
pp. 1087-1089
Technological Empowerment: The Internet, State, and Society in China (review)
pp. 1089-1090
In Gold We Trust: Social Capital and Economic Change in the Italian Jewelry Towns (review)
pp. 1091-1092
Industry and Modernism: Companies, Architecture, and Identity in the Nordic and Baltic Countries during the High-Industrial Period (review)
pp. 1092-1094
Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860 (review)
pp. 1094-1095
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780–1840 (review)
pp. 1095-1097
Testing American Sea Power: U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923–1940 (review)
pp. 1097-1099
The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926–1991 (review)
pp. 1099-1100
Dictatorship of the Air: Aviation Culture and the Fate of Modern Russia (review)
pp. 1101-1102
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975–2005 (review)
pp. 1103-1104
Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science: A Historical Ontology (review)
pp. 1104-1105
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pp. 1106-1137
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