
History of Technology Volume 28
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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"
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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.More details
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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
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
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