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Front Cover: Cover: The brothers Paul and Prosper Henry, making observations with their astrograph at the Paris Observatory in the mid-1880s. (Courtesv of Cambridge University Press, from Owen Gingerich, ed., Astrophysics and 'Twentieth-Century, Astronomy to 1950: Part A, vol. 4A of Michael Hoskin, general ed.. The Genera! History of Astronomy [1984b). See John Lankford, “Photography and the 19th-Centurv Transits of Venus," pp. 648-657.
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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 28, Number 3, July 1987Table of Contents

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View Summary of Models of Invention and Enterprise: 150 Years of the American Patent System-Two Exhibits at the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
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View Summary of Workshop on the Military and Postwar Academic Science—Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, April 17–18, 1986
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View Summary of Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances; Listening Once Again by Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen (review)
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View Summary of Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture ed. by George W. Stocking, Jr (review)
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View Summary of The Playfair Collection: And the Teaching of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh 1713–1858 by R. G. W. Anderson, and: Joseph Black 1728–1799: A Commemorative Symposium ed. by A. D. C. Simpson, and: “Martyr of Science”: Sir David Brewster 1781–1868 ed. by A. D. Morrison-Low, J. R. R. Christie (review)
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View Summary of Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts by Peter Stansky (review)
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View Summary of Inventions: The Patented Works of R. Buckminster Fuller by R. Buckminster Fuller, and: The Artifacts of Buckminster Fuller: A Comprehensive Collection of His Designs and Drawings. Vol. 1: The Dymaxion Experiment, 1926–1943; vol. 2: Dymaxion Deployment, 1927–1946; vol. 3: The Geodesic Revolution, Part 1, 1947–1959; vol. 4: The Geodesic Revolution, Part 2, 1960–1983 ed. by James Ward (review)
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View Summary of The History of the Typewriter, Successor to the Pen by George Carl Mares, and: The Typewriter Legend ed. by Frank T. Masi (review)
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View Summary of Mass Media between the Wars: Perceptions of Cultural Tension, 1918–1941 ed. by Catherine L. Covert, John D. Stevens (review)
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View Summary of Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the, American Experience ed. by Merritt Roe Smith (review)
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View Summary of Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare by Milton F. Perry (review)
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View Summary of Sharps Rifles and Spanish Mules: The San Antonio—El Paso Mail, 1851–1881 by Wayne R. Austerman (review)
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View Summary of Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West by Donald Worster (review)
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View Summary of Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890–1950 by Philip V. Scarpino (review)
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View Summary of Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880 by Pete Daniel (review)
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View Summary of Underdeveloping the Amazon: Extraction, Unequal Exchange, and the Failure of the Modern State by Stephen G. Bunker (review)
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View Summary of A Calculus of Suffering: Pain, Professionalism, and Anesthesia in Nineteenth-Century America by Martin S. Pernick (review)
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The Language of Risk: Conflicting Perspectives on Occupational Health ed. by Dorothy Nelkin (review)

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View Summary of Quest for Performance: The Evolution of Modern Aircraft by Laurence K. Loftin, Jr (review)
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