Knowing machines : essays on technical change /
Donald MacKenzie.
- viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Inside technology .
- Inside technology. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Marx and the Machine -- Economic and Sociological Explanations of Technological change -- From the Luminiferous Ether to the Boeing 757 -- Nuclear Weapons Laboratories and the Development of Supercomputing -- The Charismatic Engineer -- The Fangs of the VIPER -- Negotiating Arithmetic, Constructing Proof -- Computer-Related Accidental Death -- Tacit Knowledge and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons -- Notes -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.