TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE:
THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF
TECHNOLOGY
Volume 41 Number 3
July 2000
§ In This Issue
Articles
David Mindell, "Opening Black's Box: Rethinking Feedback's Myth of Origin"
Joanne Abel Goldman, "National Science in the Nation's Heartland: The Ames
Laboratory and
Iowa
State University, 1942-1965"
Yuzo Takahashi, "A Network of Tinkerers: The Advent of the Radio and Television
Receiver
Industry in Japan"
Wiebe E. Bijker and Karin Bijsterveld, "Women Walking through Plans: Technology,
Democracy,
and Gender Identity"
Museum Reviews
Wolf Peter Fehlhammer and Wilhelm Fuessl, "The Deutsches Museum: Idea,
Realization,
and
Objectives"
Eva Mayring, "Munich's Technology Collections"
Stefan Zeilinger and Michael Hascher, "Poised for the New Millenium: The
Technical Museums
of
Prague, Vienna, and Berlin"
Louis P. Hutchins, "Poised for the New Millenium: The Technical Museums of
Prague, Vienna,
and
Berlin"
Review Essay
Kenneth Lipartito, "The Historian in the Rose Garden?"
Book Reviews
James E. McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History:
An
Introduction. Reviewed by Peter Hugill.
Peter Hugill, Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology.
Reviewed
by
Richard R. John.
Arnulf Grübler, Technology and Global Change. Reviewed by Wybren
Verstegen.
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Reviewed by
Suzanne
M. Moon.
Roger Guesneries and François Hartog, eds., Des sciences et des techniques: Un
debat.
Reviewed by Guillaume de Syon.
Arnold Pacey, Meaning in Technology. Reviewed by George Basalla.
The Twenty-One Books of Engineering and Machines of Juanelo Turriano. 2 vols.
Reviewed
by
José Altshuler.
Roderick Webster and Marjorie Webster, Western Astrolabes. Reviewed by Emilie
Savage-Smith.
Marika Hedin and Ulf Larsson, eds., Teknikens landskap: En teknikhistorisk
antologi
tillägnad
Svante Lindqvist. Reviewed by Ole Hyldtoft.
Maria Ågren, ed., Iron-Making Societies: Early Industrial Development in Sweden
and
Russia,
1600-1900. Reviewed by Larry Lankton.
Donald B. Wagner, The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and Its Modern Fate.
Reviewed
by
Roland Spickermann.
Anne-Françoise Garçon, Mine et métal, 1780-1880: Les non-ferreux et
l'industrialisation.
Reviewed by John R. Pannabecker.
Michel Cotte, Le fonds d'archives Seguin: Aux origines de la révolution
industrielle en
France
1790-1860. Reviewed by J. B. Gough.
Antoine Picon, trans. Martin Thom, French Architects and Engineers in the Age
of
Enlightenment. Reviewed by Ken Alder.
Mary N. Woods, From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture
in
Nineteenth-Century America. Reviewed by Sharon L. Irish.
Betsy Hunter Bradley, The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United
States.
Reviewed
by Charles K. Hyde.
Gail Cooper, Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled
Environment,
1900-1960. Reviewed by Regina L. Blaszczyk.
Mikael Hård and Andrew Jamison, eds., The Intellectual Appropriation of
Technology:
Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939. Reviewed by Jeffrey Lewis.
Hans-Liudger Dienel, ed., Der Optimismus der Ingenieure: Triumph der Technik in
der
Krise
der Moderne um 1900 . Reviewed by Mikael Hård.
Paula A. Treichler, Lisa Cartwright, and Constance Penley, eds., The Visible
Woman:
Imaging
Technologies, Gender, and Science. Reviewed by Karen Newman.
Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and
Women's
Sexual
Satisfaction. Reviewed by Julie Wosk.
Klaus Plitzner, ed., Elektrizität in der Geistesgeschichte. Reviewed by Maria
Osietzki.
Beate Binder, Elektrifizierung als Vision: Zur Symbolgeschichte einer Technik im
Alltag.
Reviewed by Maria Osietzki.
Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention. Reviewed by Ronald R.
Kline.
Wilfried Feldenkirchen, Siemens, 1918-1945. Reviewed by Kees
Gispen.
Jay L. Brigham, Empowering the West: Electrical Politics Before FDR. Reviewed by
James
C.
Williams.
Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay, eds., The Atomic West. Reviewed by William
Deverell.
Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside
in
California. Reviewed by Jack Kirby.
Dirk van Laak, Weiße Elefanten: Anspruch und Scheitern technischer Großprojekte
um
20.
Jahrhundert. Reviewed by Alexander Gall.
Thomas P. Hughes, Rescuing Prometheus. Reviewed by Thomas K.
McCraw.
Bob Johnstone, We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the
Electronic
Age. Reviewed by Richard Florida.
Herbert Kubicek, William H. Dutton, and Robin Williams, eds., The Social Shaping
of
Information Superhighways: European and American Roads to the Information
Society.
Reviewed by Gregory A. Marks.
Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information
Age.
Reviewed by Arthur P. Molella.
Erik Mattie, World's Fairs. Reviewed by John W. Stamper.
Keith Walden, Becoming Modern in Toronto: The Industrial Exhibition and the
Shaping of
a
Late Victorian Culture. Reviewed by Norman R. Ball.
E. A. Heaman, The Inglorious Arts of Peace: Exhibitions in Canadian Society
during
the
Nineteenth Century. Reviewed by Elwood Jones.
Donald H. Avery, The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military
Technology
during the Second World War. Reviewed by Randall C. Brooks.
James L. George, History of Warships: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First
Century.
Reviewed by David McGee.
Dwayne A. Day, John M. Logsdon, and Brian Latell, eds., Eye in the Sky: The
Story of
the
Corona Spy Satellites. Reviewed by Dag Spicer.
Lena Andersson-Skog and Ollie Krantz, eds., Institutions in the Transport and
Communications
Industries: State and Private Actors in the Making of Institutional Patterns,
1850-1990.
Reviewed by Colin Divall.
David O. Stowell, Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877. Reviewed by
Scott Molloy.
David M. Young, Chicago Transit: An Illustrated History. Reviewed by Zachary
Schrag.