History of Technology Volume 28
Special Issue: By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr
Published on 31. March 2009
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-8264-3875-1 (ISBN)
Description
This special edition focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Reviews / Votes
Editors Graeme Gooday and James Sumner have selected a diverse set of articles ...[the book] adds value by challenging how we understand standardization in the realm of technology and industry. It should be read by all those interested in processes of standardization. -- British Journal for the History of ScienceMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From Preschool to Kindergarten
Illustrations
15
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-3875-1 (9780826438751)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Ian Inkster
History of Technology Volume 28
Special Issue: By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies
E-Book
03/2009
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€185.19
Available for download
Person
Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University. He has broad research interests across the history of industrialisation and technological change, and in global history.
Content
- Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914; - Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination; - Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938; - Battery birds, 'stimulighting' and 'twilighting': the ecology of standardized poultry technology; - Basicode: co-producing a microcomputer Esperanto; - Standards and compatibility: the rise of the PC platform; IPv6: a history of the next-generation Internet.