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Technology and Culture

Volume 50, Number 2, April 2009

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E-ISSN: 1097-3729 Print ISSN: 0040-165X

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Articles

A Disciplined Geography: Aviation, Science, and the Cold War in Northern Canada, 1945–1960
pp. 265-290
African Americans in the Atomic Age: Postwar Perspectives on Race and the Bomb, 1945–1967
pp. 291-315
A Bold New Vision: The VOA Radio Ring Plan and Global Broadcasting in the Early Cold War
pp. 316-344
“A Modern ‘Philosopher’s Stone’”: Techno-Analogy and the Bacon Cell
pp. 345-365
Mediating Emotion: Technology, Social Science, and Emotion in the Payne Fund Motion-Picture Studies
pp. 366-390

On The Cover

Lehigh University’s Fritz Laboratory and the Five-Million-Pound Universal Testing Machine
pp. 391-398

Essay

Local Food and the Problem of Public Authority
pp. 399-417

Exhibit Review

Art in the Age of Steam: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 18 April–10 August 2008
pp. 418-425

Classics Revisited

Pioneer in the Hardware of Culture: Roger Burlingame’s March of the Iron Men and Engines of Democracy
pp. 426-440

Essay Reviews

The Culture of Modern Capitalism
pp. 441-448
An Overture to The Oxford Handbook: Serafina Cuomo, Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
pp. 450-452

Book Reviews

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (review)
pp. 453-454
The Machines of Leonardo da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux: Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the 20th Century (review)
pp. 454-456
Architect and Engineer: A Study in Sibling Rivalry (review)
pp. 456-457
Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England (review)
pp. 458-459
Le choix de la révolution industrielle: Les enterprises de Marc Seguin et ses frères (1815–1835) (review)
pp. 459-461
Andreas Libavius and the Transformation of Alchemy: Separating Chemical Cultures with Polemical Fire (review)
pp. 461-462
The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain (review)
pp. 463-464
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War (review)
pp. 464-466
Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Space Flight (review)
pp. 466-467
Beyond Human: Living with Robots and Cyborgs (review)
pp. 468-469
Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television (review)
pp. 469-471
The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate, 1839–1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (review)
pp. 471-473
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World (review)
pp. 473-474
Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television (review)
pp. 474-476
Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History (review)
pp. 476-478
Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (review)
pp. 478-479
Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America (review)
pp. 480-481
Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century (review)
pp. 481-483
Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005 (review)
pp. 483-484
Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town (review)
pp. 484-486
Paving the Way: New York Road Building and the American State, 1880–1956 (review)
pp. 486-487
The Highway Revolution, 1895–1925: How the United States Got Out of the Mud (review)
pp. 488-489
The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe (review)
pp. 489-491
Bodies in Motion: Evolution and Experience in Motorcycling (review)
pp. 492-493
Horse Trading in the Age of Cars: Men in the Marketplace (review)
pp. 493-495
Transport Design: A Travel History (review)
pp. 495-497
Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt: Eine wirtschaftshistorische Analyse (review)
pp. 497-498
A History of the Book in America, vol. 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880 (review)
pp. 499-500
Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000 (review)
pp. 500-502
Falling for Science: Objects in Mind (review)
pp. 502-503
Energy and American Society—Thirteen Myths (review)
pp. 504-505
Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century: The Hierarchy of Energy (review)
pp. 505-506
Rethinking Expertise (review)
pp. 507-508
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture (review)
pp. 508-509
Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (review)
pp. 510-511
Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know (review)
pp. 511-512

Comment

The Challenge of Technological Uncertainty
pp. 513-518

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