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Front Cover: A 1340 Velislav Bible Tower of Babel construction scene, including a treadwheel (bottom right) with a slewing crane. (From Pierre DuColombier, Les Chantiers des cathédrales, 2d ed. [Paris, 1973], Hg. 13.) See Andrea L. Matthies, “Medieval Treadwheels: Artists’ Views of Building Construction,” pp. 510—547.
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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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Volume 33, Number 3, July 1992Table of Contents

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View Summary of Centralizing Navigational Technology in America: The U.S. Navy’s Depot of Charts and Instruments, 1830–1842
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View Summary of “Smoke Signals: Cigarettes, Advertising, and The American Way of Life” at the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia
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View Summary of “The Working People of Richmond: Life and Labor in an Industrial City, 1865–1920” at the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia
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View Summary of The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880–1930 by Harold L. Platt (review)
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View Summary of “Hello, Central?” Gender, Technology, and Culture in the Formation of Telephone Systems by Michèle Martin (review)
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View Summary of Lord of Attention: Gerald Stanley Lee and the Crowd Metaphor in Industrializing America by Gregory W. Bush (review)
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View Summary of Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Ancient and Traditional Material Culture by Brian Cotterell, Johan Kamminga (review)
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View Summary of Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal: Workers and Workplace in the Preindustrial City by Robert C. Davis (review)
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View Summary of Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades by Michael Sonenscher (review)
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View Summary of Patterns of Labour: Work and Social Change in the Pottery Industry by Richard Whipp (review)
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View Summary of Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali by J. Stephen Lansing (review)
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View Summary of The Corncribs of Buzet: Modernizing Agriculture in the French Southwest by Peter H. Amann (review)
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View Summary of The Search for Purity: A Retrospective Policy Analysis of the Decision to Chlorinate Cincinnati’s Public Water Supply, 1890–1920 by Colleen K. O’Toole (review)
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View Summary of Damming the Colorado: The Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933–1939 by John A. Adams, Jr (review)
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View Summary of Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building by Catherine W. Bishir, et al (review)
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View Summary of The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition by William J. Mitchell (review)
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View Summary of The Age of Information: The Past Development and Future Significance of Computing and Communications by Stephen Saxby (review)
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View Summary of Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force, 1919–1939 by David E. Omissi (review)
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View Summary of Partners in Science: Foundations and Natural Scientists, 1900–1945 by Robert E. Kohler (review)
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View Summary of International Science and National Scientific Identity: Australia between Britain and America ed. by Roderick W. Home, Sally G. Kohlstedt (review)
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View Summary of Solomon’s House Revisited: The Organization and Institutionalization of Science ed. by Tore Frängsmyr (review)
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View Summary of Viewing the Earth: The Social Construction of the Landsat Satellite System by Pamela E. Mack (review)
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View Summary of Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance by Donald MacKenzie (review)
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View Summary of Instrumental Realism: The Interface between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology by Don Ihde (review)
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