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  1. The Fine-Tuning of a Golden Ear: High-End Audio and the Evolutionary Model of Technology
  2. Joseph O’ Connell
  3. pp. 1-37
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0146
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  1. “Shrunk to a Comparative Rivulet”: Deforestation, Stream Flow, and Rural Milling in 19th-Century Maine
  2. Jamie H. Eves
  3. pp. 38-65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0147
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  1. The Context and Significance of America’s First Railroad, on Boston’s Beacon Hill
  2. Frederick C. Gamst
  3. pp. 66-100
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0148
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  1. Sericulture and the Origins of Japanese Industrialization
  2. Tessa Morris-Suzuki
  3. pp. 101-121
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0149
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  1. A Vertical Wedge Press from the Banda Islands
  2. Roy Ellen
  3. pp. 122-131
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0150
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  1. “A Material World” at the National Museum of American History
  2. Brian Horrigan
  3. pp. 132-139
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0151
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  1. What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History by Walter G. Vincenti (review)
  2. Samuel C. Florman
  3. pp. 140-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0152
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  1. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski (review)
  2. Robert B. Gordon
  3. pp. 142-143
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0153
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  1. Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte (review)
  2. Robert Friedel
  3. pp. 143-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0154
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  1. Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885–1941 by Philip Scranton (review)
  2. James Livingston
  3. pp. 147-149
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0155
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  1. Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920–1945 by Phyllis Palmer (review)
  2. Suellen Hoy
  3. pp. 149-150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0156
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  1. Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men, and Technical Know-How by Cynthia Cockburn (review)
  2. Ruth Oldenziel
  3. pp. 151-152
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0157
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  1. Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science ed. by Marianne G. Ainley (review)
  2. Kathleen Ochs
  3. pp. 152-154
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0158
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  1. Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften ed. by Gisela Buchheim, Rolf Sonnemann (review)
  2. Oskar Blumtritt
  3. pp. 154-156
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0159
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  1. The Royal Dockyards 1690–1850 by Jonathan G. Coad (review)
  2. Charles E. Peterson
  3. pp. 156-158
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0160
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  1. From Pleasure and Profit to Science and Security: Etienne Lenoir and the Transformation of Precision Instrument-Making in France 1760–1830 by A. J. Turner, and: Le Citoyen Lenoir: Scientific Instrument Making in Revolutionary France by J. A. Bennett (review)
  2. Deborah Jean Warner
  3. pp. 158-160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0161
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  1. Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science by Silvio A. Bedini (review)
  2. George H. Daniels
  3. pp. 160-161
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0162
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  1. Boris Semyonovich Jacobi by Anatoly V. Yarotsky (review)
  2. Leonid N. Kryzhanovsky
  3. p. 162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0163
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  1. The Invention of Progress: The Victorians and the Past by Peter J. Bowler (review)
  2. Asa Briggs
  3. pp. 163-164
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0164
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  1. A Science of Impurity: Water Analysis in Nineteenth Century Britain by Christopher Hamlin (review)
  2. William H. Brock
  3. pp. 164-165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0165
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  1. Pure Food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906 by James Harvey Young (review)
  2. John W. Servos
  3. pp. 166-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0166
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  1. Meteorology in America, 1800–1870 by James R. Fleming (review)
  2. Clark A. Elliott
  3. pp. 167-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0167
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  1. Eye on the Sky: Lick Observatory’s First Century by Donald E. Osterbrock, et al, and: Astronomical Centers of the World by Kevin Krisciunas (review)
  2. Marc Rothenberg
  3. p. 169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0168
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  1. Lawrence and His Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory by J. L. Heilbron, Robert W. Seidel (review)
  2. John Krige
  3. pp. 170-172
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0169
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  1. Science and the Navy: The History of the Office of Naval Research by Harvey M. Sapolsky (review)
  2. Gerardo G. Tango
  3. pp. 172-173
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0170
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  1. John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing by William Aspray (review)
  2. Peggy Aldrich Kidwell
  3. pp. 174-175
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0171
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  1. Lucius D. Clay: An American Life by Jean Edward Smith (review)
  2. Stanley Goldberg
  3. pp. 175-177
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0172
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  1. Atomic Rivals by Bertrand Goldschmidt (review)
  2. Mark Walker
  3. pp. 177-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0173
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  1. Wissenschaft für Macht und Markt: Kernforschung und Mikroelektronik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland by Michael Eckert, Maria Osietzki (review)
  2. Wolfgang Rüdig
  3. pp. 179-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0174
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  1. Innovation at the Crossroads between Science and Technology ed. by M. Kranzberg, et al (review)
  2. Paul Israel
  3. pp. 181-182
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0175
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  1. An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology ed. by Ian McNeil (review)
  2. Henry Lowood
  3. pp. 183-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0176
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  1. Early American Scientific and Technical Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets, and Broadsides by Margaret W. Batschelet (review)
  2. Darwin H. Stapleton
  3. pp. 184-185
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0177
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  1. Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the Second Edition of His “Cotton Manufacture” (1840), and the Justitia Controversy about Relative Power Costs by David J. Jeremy (review)
  2. Thomas E. Leary
  3. pp. 185-187
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0178
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  1. Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains by Thomas D. Isern (review)
  2. Wayne Rasmussen
  3. pp. 187-188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0179
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  1. J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City: Innovation in Planned Residential Communities by William S. Worley (review)
  2. Richard Guy Wilson
  3. pp. 189-190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0180
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  1. Suburbia Re-examined ed. by Barbara M. Kelly (review)
  2. Mark H. Rose
  3. pp. 190-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0181
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  1. Essays on Sunbelt Cities and Recent Urban America ed. by Robert B. Fairbanks, Kathleen Underwood (review)
  2. Michael H. Ebner
  3. pp. 192-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0182
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  1. Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments by Elizabeth Cromley (review)
  2. Carl W. Condit
  3. pp. 193-194
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0183
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  1. The Sky’s the Limit: A Century of Chicago Skyscrapers ed. by Pauline A. Saliga (review)
  2. Tom F. Peters
  3. pp. 195-196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0184
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  1. Skyscraper: The Making of a Building by Karl Sabbagh (review)
  2. Ivan Zaknic
  3. pp. 196-198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0185
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  1. Roadside America: The Automobile in Design and Culture ed. by Jan Jennings (review)
  2. Roger B. White
  3. pp. 198-200
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0186
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  1. Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society by James W. Carey (review)
  2. Richard R. John
  3. pp. 200-202
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0187
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  1. Making Science Our Own: Public Images of Science 1910–1955 by Marcel C. LaFollette (review)
  2. Ronald C. Tobey
  3. pp. 202-204
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0188
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  1. The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science: A Disciplinary History of American Writing by John Limon (review)
  2. Joseph W. Slade
  3. pp. 204-206
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0189
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  1. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century by Jonathan Crary (review)
  2. Barry Katz
  3. pp. 206-207
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0190
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  1. From Artifact to Habitat: Studies in the Critical Engagement of Technology ed. by Gayle L. Ormiston (review)
  2. Trevor Pinch
  3. pp. 207-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0191
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  1. Erfindergeist und Technikkritik: Der Beitrag Amerikas zur Modernisierung und die Technikdebatte seit 1900 by Andreas Schüler (review)
  2. Ulrich Wengenroth
  3. pp. 209-210
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0192
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  1. The Deutsches Museum, Munich by Otto Mayr, et al (review)
  2. R. G. W. Anderson
  3. pp. 210-212
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1992.0193
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