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History of Technology Volume 28 Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

History of Technology Volume 28 By Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

History of Technology Volume 28 by Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

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Focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. This title deals with the history of technical discovery and change. It explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic.

History of Technology Volume 28 Summary

History of Technology Volume 28 by Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

This special edition focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

History of Technology Volume 28 Reviews

Editors Graeme Gooday and James Sumner have selected a diverse set of articles ...[the book] adds value by challenging how we understand standardization in the realm of technology and industry. It should be read by all those interested in processes of standardization. -- British Journal for the History of Science

About Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University. He has broad research interests across the history of industrialisation and technological change, and in global history.

Table of Contents

- Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914; - Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination; - Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938; - Battery birds, 'stimulighting' and 'twilighting': the ecology of standardized poultry technology; - Basicode: co-producing a microcomputer Esperanto; - Standards and compatibility: the rise of the PC platform; IPv6: a history of the next-generation Internet.

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NPB9780826438751
9780826438751
082643875X
History of Technology Volume 28 by Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)
Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)
History of Technology
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2009-03-31
192
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