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Technology and choice : readings from Technology and culture / edited by Marcel C. LaFollette and Jeffrey K. Stine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226467767
  • 9780226467764
  • 0226467775
  • 9780226467771
Uniform titles:
  • Technology and culture.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 20
LOC classification:
  • T14.5 .T44138 1991
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
Contemplating choice : historical perspectives on innovation and application of technology / Marcel C. LaFollette and Jeffrey K. Stine -- The movement for smoke abatement in 19th-Century Britain / Carlos Flick -- Bursting boilers and the federal power / John G. Burke -- Waves of change : mechanization in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry, 1864-1914 / Patrick W. O'Bannon -- "Touch Someone" : the telephone industry discovers socialbility / Claude S. Fischer-- More "Small Things Forgottten" : domestic electrical plugs and receptacles, 1881-1931 / Fred E. H. Schroeder -- The garbage disposer, the public health, and the good life / SueEllen Hoy -- Government and technology in the Great Depression / Carroll W. Pursell -- "Very Risky Business" : a power reactor for New York city / George T. Mazuzan.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 303.483 TEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A150337B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contemplating choice : historical perspectives on innovation and application of technology / Marcel C. LaFollette and Jeffrey K. Stine -- The movement for smoke abatement in 19th-Century Britain / Carlos Flick -- Bursting boilers and the federal power / John G. Burke -- Waves of change : mechanization in the Pacific Coast canned-salmon industry, 1864-1914 / Patrick W. O'Bannon -- "Touch Someone" : the telephone industry discovers socialbility / Claude S. Fischer-- More "Small Things Forgottten" : domestic electrical plugs and receptacles, 1881-1931 / Fred E. H. Schroeder -- The garbage disposer, the public health, and the good life / SueEllen Hoy -- Government and technology in the Great Depression / Carroll W. Pursell -- "Very Risky Business" : a power reactor for New York city / George T. Mazuzan.

Also issued online.

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