In this Issue

Table of Contents

Erratum

p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965867
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Cover Essay

On the Cover: Seeing Like a New Materialist

Jan Hansen
pp. 611-621
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965817
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Research Articles

Where Research Meets Place: Iron, Identity, and the Reshaping of Historical Inquiry in Arctic Sweden

Kristina Söderholm, Carina Bennerhag
pp. 623-647
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965818
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How Standards Became Documents: Uniform Screw Threads and Standardization in the Age of Industrial Print

Jonathan H. Grossman
pp. 649-673
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965819
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Imagination Over Innovation: The Experienced Freedom of Movement of Nineteenth-Century European Travelers

Anna P. H. Geurts
pp. 675-710
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965820
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Special Section: New Materialism and the History of Infrastructure

Introduction: The Challenge of New Materialism for the History of Infrastructure

Jan Hansen, Frederik Schulze
pp. 711-730
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965821
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How Irritants Shape Infrastructure Engineering: The Thing-Power of Diversion Sluice Gates at the Guri Dam, Venezuela, 1963–69

Frederik Schulze
pp. 731-750
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965822
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Technological Models as Object Lessons of Agitation: Multiscale Materiality and Agency of Sand Filtration in an Industrial City, 1895

Ellan F. Spero, Christine Ortiz
pp. 751-776
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965823
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Tracing Creosote's Legacy: From the Rails of Europe to Unplanned Deposits

Martin Meiske
pp. 777-798
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965824
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Ground Realities: Material Interactions in the Construction of the Buenos Aires Subway, 1933–44

María Ignacia Jeldes Olivares, Paul Sprute, Monika Motylińska
pp. 799-826
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965825
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Invisible Infrastructure: Radio Waves and Material Knowledge in Early Twentieth Century Japan

Daqing Yang
pp. 827-855
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965826
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Book Reviews

La teinture et les matières tinctoriales à la fin du Moyen Âge: Florence, Toscane, Méditerranée [Dyeing and dyestuffs in the late Middle Ages: Florence, Tuscany, the Mediterranean] by Mathieu Harsch, and: A Revolution in Colour: Natural Dyes and Dress in Europe, c. 1400–1800 ed. by Maria Hayward, Giorgio Riello, and Ulinka Rublack, and: Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500–2000 ed. by Carlos Marichal and David Pretel (review)

Sarah Lowengard
pp. 856-861
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965827
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The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas S. Mullaney, and: 司宏伟 神机妙算会"银河": 中国第一台 巨型计算机"银河-I"的研制、 创新、影响 Shenji miaosuan hui "yinhe": Zhongguo di yi tai juxing jisuanji "yinhe-I" de yanzhi, chuangxin, yingxiang [The magic machine "Galaxy": The development, innovation, and impact of the first supercomputer YH-1 in China] by 司宏伟 Si Hongwei (review)

Erik Baark
pp. 861-864
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965828
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Вτоржение: Краτкая исτория русских хакеров Vtorzhenie: Kratkaia istoriia russkikh khakerov [Intrusion: A short history of Russian hackers] by Даниил Туровский Daniil Turovskii (review)

Gleb J. Albert
pp. 864-866
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965829
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Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought ed. by Estrella Trincado Aznar and Fernando López Castellano (review)

Björn Hasselgren
pp. 866-868
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965830
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Reframing Technology: An Intellectual History of Thinking Beyond the Machine by Kent Hufford (review)

Zachary Loeb
pp. 868-870
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965831
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The Will to Predict: Orchestrating the Future through Science by Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (review)

Elena Aronova
pp. 870-872
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965832
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Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought by Caroline Ashcroft (review)

David Pike
pp. 872-874
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965833
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荷兰学派技术哲学研究：设计、伦理与价值 Helan xuepai jishu zhexue yanjiu: Sheji, lunli yu jiezhi [Research on the philosophy of technology of the Dutch school] by 刘宝杰 Liu Baojie (review)

Shih-Yun Liu
pp. 874-876
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965834
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Palabras, actores, objetos y lugares: El CSIC y la demarcación de la ciencia en la España franquista (1939–1966) [Words, actors, objects and places: CSIC and the demarcation of science in Franco's Spain (1939–1966)] by Fernando García Naharro (review)

Lino Camprubí
pp. 876-878
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965835
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Dessiner la technique: Pensée et discours visuels (XVIe–XXe siècles) [Drawing technology: Visual thought and discourse (16th–20th centuries)] ed. by Jérôme Baudry and Valérie Nègre (review)

Fanny Kieffer
pp. 878-880
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965836
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Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020 ed. by Peter Sachs Collopy and Claudia Bohn-Spector (review)

Dawna Schuld
pp. 880-882
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965837
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A Global History of Silk: Trade and Production from the 16th to the Mid-20th Century ed. by Pierre Vernus, Manuela Martini, and Tomoko Hashino (review)

Robert Cliver
pp. 882-883
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965838
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Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery by Christine M. E. Guth (review)

Chelsea Foxwell
pp. 884-885
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965839
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Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece by Artemis Yagou (review)

Ana Struillou
pp. 885-887
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965840
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Engineers and the Two Taiwans: The Abnormal Club by Kuo-Hui Chang, Gary Lee Downey, and Bono Po-Jen Shih (review)

Cyrus C. M. Mody
pp. 887-889
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965841
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De paysans à techniciens: Sociohistoire d'une qualification scolaire et sociale au Mexique [From peasants to technicians: Sociohistory of an educational and social qualification in Mexico] by Gilberto Ramos-Iduñate (review)

Francisco Corona Flores
pp. 889-891
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965842
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Réseaux d'ingénieur: Jules Petiet, de l'École centrale aux chemins de fer (1830–1870) [Engineer networks: Jules Petiet, from the École Centrale to the railways (1830–1870)] by Jean-Pierre Williot (review)

Alain Beltran
pp. 891-892
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965843
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Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon by Agnes Arnold-Foster (review)

Josep L. Barona
pp. 893-894
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965844
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Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia ed. by C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet, and Michitake Aso (review)

Wayne Soon
pp. 894-896
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965845
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No Country for Old Age: America's War on Aging from Valley Forge to Silicon Valley by Mischa Honeck (review)

Hyung Wook Park
pp. 896-898
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965846
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How We Became Sensorimotor: Movement, Measurement, Sensation by Mark Paterson (review)

Bodo Mrozek
pp. 898-900
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965847
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Transforming Noise: A History of Its Science and Technology from Disturbing Sounds to Informational Errors, 1900–1955 by Chen-Pang Yeang (review)

Roland Wittje
pp. 900-902
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965848
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Phonographic Encounters: Mapping Transnational Cultures of Sound, 1890–1945 ed. by Elodie A. Roy and Eva Moreda Rodríguez (review)

James G. Mansell
pp. 902-904
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965849
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Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives by Tanya E. Clement (review)

Jason Camlot
pp. 904-906
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965850
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Connecting China, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Infrastructure and Everyday Life ed. by Enrique Dussel Peters, James A. Cook, and Joseph S. Alter (review)

Yovanna Pineda
pp. 906-907
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965851
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Automotive Empire: How Cars and Roads Fueled European Colonialism in Africa by Andrew Denning (review)

Jennifer Hart
pp. 908-909
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965852
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Historische Grundlagen der mobilen Gesellschaft: Technologien der Verkehrslenkung und drahtloser Information auf Straßen und Wasserwegen in Europa [Historical foundations of the mobile society: Technologies of traffic control and wireless information on roads and waterways in Europe] ed. by Veit Damm and Christian Heinrich-Franke (review)

Hans-Liudger Dienel
pp. 910-911
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965853
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Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk by Diane Vaughan (review)

John Tylko
pp. 911-913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965854
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Speed, Safety, and Comfort: The Origins of Delta Air Lines by James John Hoogerwerf (review)

F. Robert Van Der Linden
pp. 913-915
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965855
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Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land by Tamar Novick (review)

Elizabeth R. Williams
pp. 915-917
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965856
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Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic by André Tavares (review)

Matthew McKenzie
pp. 917-918
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965857
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American Farming Culture and the History of Technology by Joshua T. Brinkman (review)

Rena R. Henderson
pp. 919-920
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965858
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The Gas Sector in Latin Europe's Industrial History: Lighting and Heating the World ed. by Ana Cardoso de Matos, Alexander Fernadez, and Antonio Jesús Pinto Tortosa (review)

Christos Karampatsos
pp. 921-922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965859
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Technology and the Making of Experimental Film Culture by John Powers (review)

Ken Eisenstein
pp. 923-924
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965860
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A History of Fake Things on the Internet by Walter J. Scheirer (review)

Finn Brunton
pp. 925-926
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965861
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Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory by Ian Milligan (review)

Camille Paloque-Bergès
pp. 926-928
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965862
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Die Beschleunigung der Schrift: Geschichte der Stenografie im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert [The acceleration of writing: The history of stenography in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries] by Wolf-Rüdiger Wagner (review)

Sonja Neumann
pp. 928-930
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965863
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経済の維新と殖産興業:一八五九一八九〇 Keizai no isshin to shokusan kôgyô 1859–1890 [Economy of the Meiji Restoration and the promotion of industry, 1859–1890] ed. by 鈴木淳 Suzuki Jun (review)

Aleksandra Kobiljski
pp. 930-932
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965864
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Cold War Museology ed. by Jessica Douthwaite, Holger Nehring, and Samuel J. M. M. Alberti (review)

Jennifer Levasseur
pp. 932-933
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965865
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Speeding Up Sport: Technology and the Indian Premier League by Vidya Subramanian (review)

Anand Rampersad
pp. 934-935
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a965866
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