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Table of Contents

Engineering and Politics: The Channel Tunnel in the 1880s

Anthony S. Travis
pp. 461-497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0041
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The Internal Functions of a 14th-Century Florentine Flour Factory

John Muendel
pp. 498-520
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0042
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Canada’s Mines Branch and Its Synthetic Fuel Program for Energy Independence

Anthony N. Stranges
pp. 521-554
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0043
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Industry, Technology, and the “Labor Question” in 19th-Century America: Seeking Synthesis

Merritt Roe Smith
pp. 555-570
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0044
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The Dibner Award

pp. 571-572
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0045
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The IEEE Life Members Prize in Electrical History

pp. 572-573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0046
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The Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize

p. 573
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0047
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The Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize

pp. 573-574
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0048
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The Abbott Payson Usher Prize

pp. 574-575
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0049
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The Dexter Prize

pp. 575-578
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0050
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The Leonardo da Vinci Medal

pp. 579-586
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0051
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The Cleveland Meeting, October 18–21, 1990

pp. 587-593
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0052
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The International Committee for the History of Technology Meeting, Paris, July 1990

Miriam R. Levin, Arwen Mohun
pp. 594-595
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0053
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Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures by Anthony F. Aveni (review)

David S. Landes
pp. 596-599
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0054
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The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat by Martin Kemp (review)

Nicholas Adams
pp. 599-601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0055
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Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style by Debora L. Silverman (review)

Miriam R. Levin
pp. 601-602
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0056
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Samuel F. B. Morse by Paul J. Staiti (review)

Lillian B. Miller
pp. 602-604
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0057
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New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815–1914 by Kees Gispen (review)

Donald Thomas
pp. 604-605
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0058
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Government and Expertise: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 1860–1919 ed. by Roy MacLeod (review)

David H. Guston
pp. 606-607
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0059
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A Promising Field: Engineering at Alabama, 1837–1987 by Robert J. Norrell (review)

Terry S. Reynolds
pp. 607-608
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0060
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The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold-dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897–1922 by Clark C. Spence (review)

Alan S. Newell
pp. 609-610
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0061
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Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry by Priscilla Long (review)

Gay Bindocci
pp. 610-611
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0062
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Vertical Transportation in Old Back Bay: A Museum Case Study—the Acquisition of a Small Residential Hydraulic Elevator by Robert M. Vogel (review)

Anne Millbrooke
pp. 611-612
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0063
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Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West by Mark S. Foster, and: Henry J. Kaiser—American Empire Builder: An Insider’s View by Albert P. Heiner (review)

Donald C. Jackson
pp. 612-614
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0064
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Second Century of the Skyscraper ed. by Lynn S. Beedle, and: Hongkong Bank: The Building of Norman Foster’s Masterpiece by Stephanie Williams (review)

Jane Morley
pp. 615-617
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0065
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Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700–1865 by Richard D. Brown (review)

Richard R. John
pp. 617-619
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0066
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Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management by JoAnne Yates (review)

Steven Lubar
pp. 619-621
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0067
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Behind, the Tube: A History of Broadcasting Technology and Business by Andrew F. Inglis (review)

R. William Maule
pp. 621-622
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0068
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New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America by Richard S. Tedlow (review)

Pamela Walker Laird
pp. 622-624
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0069
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The Piano in America, 1890–1940 by Craig H. Roell (review)

Karen Linn
pp. 624-626
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0070
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Transportation in Iowa: A Historical Summary by William H. Thompson (review)

George W. Hilton
p. 626
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0071
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America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893–1923 by Peter J. Ling (review)

Lindy Biggs
pp. 627-628
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0072
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Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention by Peter L. Jakab (review)

Joseph J. Corn
pp. 628-630
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0073
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Knights of the Air: The Life and Times of the Extraordinary Pioneers Who First Built British Aeroplanes by Peter King (review)

Alfred Gollin
pp. 630-631
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0074
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Where Eagles Land: Planning and Development of U.S. Army Airfields, 1910–1941 by Jerold E. Brown (review)

Frank N. Schubert
pp. 631-632
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0075
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Race to the Stratosphere: Manned Scientific Ballooning in America by David H. DeVorkin (review)

Virginia P. Dawson
pp. 633-634
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0076
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Apollo: The Race to the Moon by Charles Murray, Catherine Cox (review)

John M. Logsdon
pp. 634-636
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0077
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Astronomer by Chance by Bernard Lovell (review)

Robert W. Smith
pp. 636-637
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0078
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The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics by Robert W. Smith (review)

Richard P. Barke
pp. 637-639
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0079
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Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade by Necah S. Furman (review)

Catherine Westfall
pp. 639-641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0080
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A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative by Sanford Lakoff, Herbert F. York (review)

Sylvia Doughty Fries
pp. 641-643
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0081
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Science, Technology and the Military ed. by Everett Mendelsohn, et al (review)

Barton C. Hacker
pp. 643-646
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0082
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The Patterns of War through the Eighteenth Century by Larry H. Addington (review)

Kelly DeVries
pp. 646-648
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0083
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Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445–1871 ed. by John A. Lynn (review)

Daniel R. Headrick
pp. 648-650
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0084
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“Vulgar and Mechanick”: The Scientific Instrument Trade in Ireland, 1650–1921 by J. E. Burnett, A. D. Morrison-Low (review)

Deborah Jean Warner
pp. 650-651
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0085
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History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment ed. by Warren Leon, Roy Rosenzweig (review)

Harold K. Skramstad Jr.
pp. 651-653
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0086
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The Exploratorium: The Museum as Laboratory by Hilde Hein (review)

Marcel C. LaFollette
pp. 653-655
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0087
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The “Military Revolution”: Military History or History of Europe?

Harold Dorn
pp. 656-658
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0088
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Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1989)

Henry Lowood, Judith A. Adams, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Jane Morley, Christine M. Roysdon, Ian Winship
pp. 659-776
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0089
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Author Index (1989)

pp. 777-835
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0184
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