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Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into 'everyday life'.
The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into 'everyday life'.
Includes the Special Issue "By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies"
Table of Contents
Introduction: does standardization make things standard?
James Sumner and Graeme Gooday
Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914
Efstathios Arapostathis
Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination
Chris Otter
Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938
Andrew L. Russell
James Sumner and Graeme Gooday
Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914
Efstathios Arapostathis
Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination
Chris Otter
Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938
Andrew L. Russell
Battery birds, 'stimulighting' and 'twilighting': the ecology of standardized poultry technology
Karen Sayer
Karen Sayer
Basicode: co-producing a microcomputer Esperanto
Frank Veraart
Standards and compatibility: the rise of the PC platform
James Sumner
IPv6: a history of the next-generation Internet
Laura DeNardis
Product details
| Published | 30 Sep 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 192 |
| ISBN | 9781350019096 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Illustrations | 15 |
| Series | History of Technology |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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