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Tomorrow’s House: Solar Housing in 1940s America

Daniel A. Barber
pp. 1-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0025
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When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950–1960

David Nofre, Mark Priestley, Gerard Alberts
pp. 40-75
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0031
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Witnessing Power: John Elder and the Making of the Marine Compound Engine, 1850–1858

Crosbie Smith
pp. 76-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0003
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Toxic Legacy: The Environmental Impact of the Manufactured Gas Industry in the United States

Joel A. Tarr
pp. 107-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0008
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Spellbinding and Crooning: Sound Amplification, Radio, and Political Rhetoric in International Comparative Perspective, 1900–1945

Huub Wijfjes
pp. 148-185
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0013
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Awards

pp. 186-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0018
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The Portland Meeting, 10–13 October 2013

pp. 198-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0023
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Fortieth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology: ICOHTEC at the ICHSTM, Manchester, UK, 21–28 July 2013

Layne Karafantis, John Laprise, Slawomir Lotysz
pp. 211-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0029
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“Accidents and Emergencies: Welfare and Safety in Europe and North America, c.1750–2000”: 9–11 September 2013, Oxford, UK

Ben Taylor
pp. 220-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0001
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Mark R. Finlay, 15 September 1960–6 October 2013

J. L. Anderson
pp. 223-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0006
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The Great American Hall of Wonders, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 15 July 2011–8 January 2012

Howard P. Segal
pp. 227-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0011
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Panoramic Visions: Denise Blake Oleksijczuk, The First Panoramas; Erkki Huhtamo, Illusions in Motion

John McAleer
pp. 237-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0016
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Producers, Users, and the Actors Between: Chikako Takeshita, The Global Biopolitics of the IUD; Heather Munro Prescott, The Morning After

Andrew J. Hogan
pp. 241-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0021
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Cybernetic Futures: Stanislaw Lem, Summa Technologiae

Andrew Pickering
pp. 245-248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0027
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To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure by Henry Petroski (review)

Edward Tenner
pp. 249-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0033
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Standards: Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch (review)

Cory Knobel
pp. 251-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0004
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Ships on Maps: Pictures of Power in Renaissance Europe by Richard Unger (review)

Victoria Morse
pp. 253-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0009
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Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400–1600 by Pamela O. Long (review)

Jim Bennett
pp. 254-256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0014
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The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840–1910 by Alexandra Hui (review)

David Cahan
pp. 256-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0019
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The Pennsylvania Railroad. Volume 1: Building an Empire, 1846–1917 by Albert J. Churella (review)

Jeff Schramm
pp. 258-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0024
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Creating Consumers: Home Economics in Twentieth-Century America by Carolyn M. Goldstein (review)

Rima D. Apple
pp. 259-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0030
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The Color Revolution by Regina Blaszczyk (review)

Laura Kalba
pp. 261-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0002
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A Handbook of California Design, 1930–1965: Craftspeople, Designers, Manufacturers by Bobbye Tigerman (review)

Daniel A. Barber
pp. 263-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0007
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Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as Mediated Cultural Heritage ed. by Karin Bijsterveld (review)

Rebecca Scales
pp. 265-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0012
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The View from Above: The Science of Social Space by Jeanne Haffner (review)

Shannon Jackson
pp. 267-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0017
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown (review)

Rodney Carlisle
pp. 269-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0022
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Mr. Science and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Science and Technology in Modern China ed. by Chunjuan Nancy Wei and Darryl E. Brock (review)

Danian Hu
pp. 270-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0028
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Das Motorrad: Ein deutscher Sonderweg in die automobile Gesellschaft by Frank Steinbeck (review)

Stefan Krebs
pp. 273-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0000
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The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger (review)

Brian Ladd
pp. 275-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0005
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Greening Berlin: The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature by Jens Lachmund (review)

Peter Soppelsa
pp. 276-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0010
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Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll (review)

Kah-Wee Lee
pp. 278-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0015
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Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing by Janet Abbate (review)

Caroline Clarke Hayes
pp. 280-281
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0020
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To the Editor

John A. Alic
pp. 282-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0026
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Response to Alic

Christopher Gainor
p. 285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0032
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