Technology and Culture October 2020

October 2020, Vol 61, No 4

Special Issue: Manufacturing Modernity: Innovations in Early Modern Europe

Manufacturing Modernity. Innovations in Early Modern Europe—An Introduction | Adam Lucas

A Politics of Intellectual Property: Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France | Jérôme Baudry

Illuminated Publics: Representations of Street Lamps in Revolutionary France | Benjamin Bothereau

Changing Scale to Master Nature: Promoting Small-scale inventions in Eighteenth-century France and Britain | Marie Thébaud-Sorger

Machines, Motion, Mechanics: Philosophers Engineering the Fountains of Versailles | Luciano Boschiero

A New Perspective on the Natural Philosophy of Steams and its Relation to the Steam Engine | David Philip Miller

Public History
Public History Take 1: Historians of Technology Watching Chernobyl

Chernobyl the TV Series: On Suspending the Truth or What’s the Benefit of Lies? | Sonja D. Schmid

Ukrainian Memory Spaces: the Musealization of Chornobyl’s Nuclear Disaster | Anna Veronika Wendland

Reading Chernobyl as Technoscience | Eglė Rindzevičiūtė

Conference Proceedings
“Technology and Power:” Forty-Sixth Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology, University Of Silesia, Katowice, Poland 22 – 27 July 2019 | Sławomir Łotysz, Ciro Paoletti, Glen O’Sullivan, Kamna Tiwary, Magdalena Zdrodowska

Archives Revisited
Sixty-years of Scholarship in Technology and Culture

Urban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture | Peter Norton

Book Reviews

Eric Schatzberg, Technology: Critical History of a Concept (review)| David E. Nye
Steven A. Walton, ed., Fifty Years of Medieval Technology and Social Change (review)| | Adam Lucas
Dirk van Laak., Alles im Fluss: Die Lebensadern unserer Gesellschaft [Everything Flows: The Lifeblood of our Society] (review)| Nil Disco
Richard Butsch, Screen Culture: A Global History (review)| Noah Arceneaux
Smritikumar Sarkar, Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India 1830-1980 (review)| Animesh Chatterjee
Peter Jordan and Kevin Gibbs, eds., Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory: Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine (review)| Ian Gilligan
Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt, Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter (review)| Martina Hessler
Ai Hisano, Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat (review)| Barkha Kagliwal
Jason Farman, Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World (review)| David Zvi Kalman
Grame Gooday and Karen Sayer, Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930 (review)| Coreen McGuire
David Parisi, Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computers (review)| Rachel Plotnick
Barbara Tepa Lupack, Silent Serial Sensations: The Wharton Brothers and the Magic of Early Cinema (review)| J. P. Telotte
Kerim Yasar, Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (review)| Daqing Yang
Michael Brian Schiffer, Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed (review)| Jonathan Coopersmith
Douglas O’Reagan, Taking Nazi Technology: Allied Exploitation of German Science after the Second World War (review)| Bruce Seely
C. Bruce Tarter, The American Lab: An Insider’s History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (review)| Benjamin Sims
Gross, Benjamin, The TVs of Tomorrow: How RCA’s Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (review)| Michael Aaron Dennis
Lothar Schilling and Jacob Vogel, eds., Transnational Cultures of Expertise. Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th Centuries (review)| Göran Rydén
Mathias Irlinger, Die Versorgung der Hauptstadt der Bewegung. Infrastrukturen und Stadtgesellschaft im nationalsozialistischen München [Supplying the Capital of the Movement: Infrastructures and Urban Society in National Socialist Munich] (review)| Jens Ivo Engels

Amahia K. Mallea, A River in the City of Fountains: An Environmental History of Kansas City and the Missouri River (review)| Brian Frehner
Helen Godfrey, Submarine Telegraphy and the Hunt for Gutta Percha: Challenge and Opportunity in a Global Trade (review)| Bruce J. Hunt
Frank Bösch ed., Wege in die Digitale Gesellschaft: Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik 1955-1990 [Towards a Digital Society: Computer Use in West Germany 1955-1990] (review)| Corinna Schlombs

Colin Milburn, Respawn: Gamers, Hackers, and Technogenic Life (review)| Pieter Van den Heede
Daniel French, When They Hid the Fire: A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America (review)| Michael Kay
Liz Gunner, Radio Soundings: South Africa and the Black Modern (review)| Marissa J. Moorman
Dana E. Powell, Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (review)| Caleb Wellum
Gordon H. Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, eds., The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad (review)| Robert Cliver
Derek S. Oden, Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940 -1975 (review)| Mark D. Hersey
Sharra L. Vostral, Toxic Shock: A Social History (review)| Donna J. Drucker
Rachel Emma Rothschild, Poisonous Skies: Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution (review)| Blair Stein
Molly Wright Steenson, Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (review)| Orit Halpern
Pamela M. Lee, Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (review)| B. Jack Hanly
Canadelli, Elena, Marco Beretta, and Laura Ronzon, eds., Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century (review)| Morris Low