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Front Cover: Cover: Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the home of Thomas and Agatha Hughes for many years. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. See Ann Greene, “Reflections on Tom Hughes,” p. 960.

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Technology and Culture, the preeminent journal of the history of technology, draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists. Subscribers include scientists, engineers, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, museum curators, archivists, scholars, librarians, educators, historians, and many others. In addition to scholarly essays, each issue features 30-40 book reviews and reviews of new museum exhibitions. To illuminate important debates and draw attention to specific topics, the journal occasionally publishes thematic issues. Technology and Culture is the official journal of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

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Learning from Disaster?: The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research

Scott Gabriel Knowles

pp. 773-784

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0110

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Translating Time: Habits of Western-Style Timekeeping in Late Edo Japan

Yulia Frumer

pp. 785-820

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0116

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Mining Engineers and Fraud in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, 1860–1910

Sarah E. M. Grossman

pp. 821-849

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0122

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Technology and Learning: Automating Odd-Lot Trading at the New York Stock Exchange, 1958–1976

Phillip G. Bradford, Paul J. Miranti

pp. 850-879

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0128

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In the Shadow of ARPANET and Internet: Louis Pouzin and the Cyclades Network in the 1970s

Andrew L. Russell, Valérie Schafer

pp. 880-907

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0096

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How Astronomers Digitized the Sky

W. Patrick McCray

pp. 908-944

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0102

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From Order to Messy Complexity: Thoughts on the Intellectual Journey of Thomas Parke Hughes

W. Bernard Carlson

pp. 945-952

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0108

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Tom Hughes—International Scholar

Arne Kaijser

pp. 953-957

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0114

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Reflections on Tom Hughes

Ann N. Greene

pp. 958-963

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0120

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On the Importance of the Visual … and of Mentoring

Gabrielle Hecht

pp. 964-969

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0126

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Notes for Tom Hughes’s Funeral Homily: University of Virginia Chapel, 6 April 2014

John Staudenmaier S.J.

pp. 970-972

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0132

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Sultans of Science: An Opportunity Lost

Leif Inge Ree Petersen

pp. 973-987

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0100

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Exploring the Heavens: Space Technology and Religious Implications

Tilmann Siebeneichner

pp. 988-994

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0106

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Ethics in Technology: A Philosophical Study by Topi Heikkerö (review)

Hans Oberdiek

pp. 995-996

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0112

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Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World by Steven Mithen (review)

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

pp. 997-998

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0118

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Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounters by Roger Hart (review)

Dagmar Schaefer

pp. 998-1000

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0124

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Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder by David Cressy (review)

Brenda J. Buchanan

pp. 1000-1002

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0130

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Media, Technology and Literature in the Nineteenth Century: Image, Sound, Touch ed. by Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley (review)

Ivan Kreilkamp

pp. 1002-1003

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0098

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Past and Present Energy Societies: How Energy Connects Politics, Technologies, and Cultures ed. by Nina Möllers and Karin Zachmann (review)

James C. Williams

pp. 1004-1005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0104

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Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America by Jonathan Rees (review)

Amrys O. Williams

pp. 1006-1007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0109

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Pure and Modern Milk: An Environmental History since 1900 by Kendra Smith-Howard (review)

Deborah Warner

pp. 1007-1009

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0115

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Tesla: Inventor of the Electric Age by W. Bernard Carlson (review)

John Bowditch

pp. 1009-1010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0121

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Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles (review)

Stéphane Castonguay

pp. 1011-1012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0127

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Pastoral and Monumental: Dams, Postcards, and the American Landscape by Donald C. Jackson (review)

Francesca Russello Ammon

pp. 1012-1014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0133

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Lake Effect: Tales of Large Lakes, Arctic Winds, and Recurrent Snows by Mark Monmonier (review)

Lou McNally

pp. 1014-1015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0101

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Imperial Contagions: Medicine, Hygiene, and Cultures of Planning in Asia ed. by Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret (review)

Angela Ki Che Leung

pp. 1016-1017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0107

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Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity by David Arnold (review)

Pratik Chakrabarti

pp. 1017-1019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0113

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Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931–1945 by Aaron Stephen Moore (review)

Philip C. Brown

pp. 1019-1021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0119

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The Strange Death of the British Motor Cycle Industry by Steve Koerner (review)

Leslie Hannah

pp. 1021-1023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0125

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Blue Sky Metropolis: The Aerospace Century in Southern California ed. by Peter J. Westwick (review)

Jeremy R. Kinney

pp. 1023-1024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0131

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Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendency by Jenifer Van Vleck (review)

Joseph J. Corn

pp. 1025-1026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0099

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Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa by Timothy S. Wolters (review)

Craig C. Felker

pp. 1027-1028

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0105

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Arguments that Count: Physics, Computing, and Missile Defense, 1949–2012 by Rebecca Slayton (review)

Martin Collins

pp. 1028-1030

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0111

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Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty by Edwin A. Martini (review)

Rich Hamerla

pp. 1030-1032

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0117

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Creating a Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine by Elizabeth Popp Berman (review)

Martin Kenney

pp. 1032-1033

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0123

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SPAM: A Shadow History of the Internet by Finn Brunton (review)

Jonathan Coopersmith

pp. 1034-1035

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0129

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Taken for Grantedness: The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society by Rich Ling (review)

Jon Agar

pp. 1035-1037

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0097

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pp. 1038-1057

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2014.0103

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