Technology and Culture
Volume 50, Number 1, January 2009
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On the Side: Car Culture in the USSR, 1960s–1980s
pp. 1-22
Portable Power: Inventor Samuel Ruben and the Birth of Duracell
pp. 24-57
From Lab to iPod: A Story of Discovery and Commercialization in the Post–Cold War Era
pp. 58-81
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The Mechanization of Brickmaking
pp. 82-102
On the Cover
Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Mariner and His Book
pp. 103-109
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Presidential Address
The Historian of Technology and Her True Country
pp. 110-126
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Organizational Notes
The Lisbon Meeting, 11–14 October 2008
pp. 155-174
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Classics Revisited
Space Bias/Time Bias: Harold Innis, Empire and Communications
pp. 175-186
Essay Reviews
America’s Coming of Age: Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought
pp. 187-192
Book Reviews
Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft (review)
pp. 202-204
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan (review)
pp. 204-205
Technology and Ethical Idealism: A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies (review)
pp. 206-207
The Technical Imagination: Argentine Culture’s Modern Dreams (review)
pp. 208-209
The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750–1940 (review)
pp. 209-211
Women at Work in Preindustrial France (review)
pp. 211-213
La Naissance de l’industrie à Paris entre sueurs et vapeurs 1780–1830 (review)
pp. 213-214
The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England, 1760–1830 (review)
p. 215
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (review)
pp. 216-217
Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860 (review)
pp. 219-220
The Genesis of Industrial America, 1870–1920 (review)
pp. 222-223
Backcountry Crucibles: The Lehigh Valley from Settlement to Steel (review)
pp. 223-225
Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age (review)
pp. 225-226
The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City (review)
pp. 226-228
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (review)
pp. 228-230
Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late 20th Century (review)
pp. 230-232
Motoring: The Highway Experience in America (review)
pp. 234-235
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (review)
pp. 235-237
Auto Mania: Cars, Consumers, and the Environment (review)
pp. 238-240
Mobility without Mayhem: Safety, Cars, and Citizenship (review)
pp. 240-242
Buda’s Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (review)
pp. 242-243
Nuclear Legacies: Communication, Controversy, and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex (review)
pp. 244-245
Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (review)
pp. 246-247
Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries (review)
pp. 249-250
Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature (review)
pp. 251-252
One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (review)
pp. 252-254
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World (review)
pp. 254-256
Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (review)
pp. 256-258
Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes (review)
pp. 260-261
The History of Information Security: A Comprehensive Handbook (review)
pp. 262-263