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Table of Contents

Accepting the Baton

Suzanne Moon
pp. 1-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0032
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Historians of Technology in the Real World: Reflections on the Pursuit of Policy-Oriented History

Richard F. Hirsh
pp. 6-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0039
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Peter Lund Simmonds and the Political Ecology of Waste Utilization in Victorian Britain

Timothy Cooper
pp. 21-44
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0003
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From Death Rays to Light Sabers: Making Laser Weapons Surgically Precise

Rebecca Slayton
pp. 45-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0010
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Building the First Gas Network, 1812-1820

Leslie Tomory
pp. 75-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0017
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Recapitalizing the Fleet: A Material Analysis of Late-Nineteenth-Century U.S. Naval Power

Timothy S. Wolters
pp. 103-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0023
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Everette Lee DeGolyer and Geology Students Mapping in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, 1905

Petar Markovski, Suzanne Moon
pp. 127-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0029
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The Trail from Trail: New Challenges for Historians of Technology

Arne Kaijser
pp. 131-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0036
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Awards

pp. 143-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0000
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The Tacoma Meeting, 30 September-3 October 2010

pp. 159-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0007
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The Ruhr Museum at the Zollverein Colliery in Essen, Germany

Walter Hauser
pp. 171-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0014
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Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History (review)

Miranda Paton
pp. 180-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0021
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (review)

Sam White
pp. 182-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0027
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The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History (review)

Robert Marks
pp. 183-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0034
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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire (review)

Jennifer Rampling
pp. 185-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0041
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Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (review)

Carolyn Cooper
pp. 187-188
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0005
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Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American Countryside (review)

Mark Finlay
pp. 188-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0012
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The Untilled Garden: Natural History and the Spirit of Conservation in America, 1740-1840 (review)

Susan Strasser
pp. 190-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0019
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Hedonizing Technologies: Paths to Pleasure in Hobbies and Leisure (review)

Kristen Haring
pp. 192-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0025
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Louder than Words: Ways of Seeing Women Workers in Eighteenth-Century France (review)

Merry Wiesner-Hanks
pp. 193-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0031
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Gender, Work and Wages in Industrial Revolution Britain (review)

Eric Schneider
pp. 195-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0038
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The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good (review)

Josh Lauer
pp. 197-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0002
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Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America (review)

John K. Brown
pp. 199-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0009
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The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (review)

Aaron W. Marrs
pp. 201-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0016
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American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in the Age of Industry (review)

Rebecca Herzig
pp. 202-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0022
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Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Steel Town (review)

Stephen Cutcliffe
pp. 204-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0028
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Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (review)

Robert B. Gordon
pp. 206-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0035
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At the Altar of the Bottom Line: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century (review)

Robert Forrant
pp. 207-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0042
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (review)

Charles Keller
pp. 209-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0006
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The Globalization of Food (review)

Raymond Grew
pp. 210-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0013
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A Tenth of a Second: A History (review)

Alexis McCrossen
pp. 212-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0020
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The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (review)

David N. Lucsko
pp. 213-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0026
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Driving Germany: The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970 (review)

Gustav Sjöblom
pp. 215-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0033
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Driving Spaces: A Cultural-Historical Geography of England's M1 Motorway (review)

Thomas Zeller
pp. 217-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0040
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From Birdwomen to Skygirls: American Girls' Aviation Stories (review)

Deborah Clarke
pp. 218-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0004
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Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender (review)

Els De Vos
pp. 220-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0011
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Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design (review)

Barry M. Katz
pp. 221-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0018
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Designing Modern Germany (review)

Martina Hessler
pp. 223-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0024
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CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting (review)

Isabelle Dussauge
pp. 225-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0030
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Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life (review)

Anita Say Chan
pp. 226-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0037
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Scientific Cultures, Technological Challenges: A Transatlantic Perspective (review)

Jen Schneider
pp. 228-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0001
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To the Editor

Thomas J. Misa
pp. 230-232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0008
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Response to Misa

Josef Konvitz
p. 232
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0015
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