Knowing machines : essays on technical change / Donald MacKenzie.
Material type: TextSeries: Inside technologyPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0262133156
- 9780262133159
- 306.46
- T14.5. M32 1996
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Marx and the Machine -- 3. Economic and Sociological Explanations of Technological change -- 4. From the Luminiferous Ether to the Boeing 757 -- 5. Nuclear Weapons Laboratories and the Development of Supercomputing -- 6. The Charismatic Engineer -- 7. The Fangs of the VIPER -- 8. Negotiating Arithmetic, Constructing Proof -- 9. Computer-Related Accidental Death -- 10. Tacit Knowledge and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons -- Notes -- Index.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.46 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A163176B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Marx and the Machine -- 3. Economic and Sociological Explanations of Technological change -- 4. From the Luminiferous Ether to the Boeing 757 -- 5. Nuclear Weapons Laboratories and the Development of Supercomputing -- 6. The Charismatic Engineer -- 7. The Fangs of the VIPER -- 8. Negotiating Arithmetic, Constructing Proof -- 9. Computer-Related Accidental Death -- 10. Tacit Knowledge and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons -- Notes -- Index.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
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