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  1. Adaptation of Technology to Culture and Environment: Bloomery Iron Smelting in America and Africa
  2. Robert B. Gordon, David J. Killick
  3. pp. 243-270
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0086
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  1. Charles S. Storrow, Civil Engineer: A Case Study of European Training and Technological Transfer in the Antebellum Period
  2. Peter A. Ford
  3. pp. 271-299
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0087
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  1. Between Craft and Science: Plant Breeding, Mendelian Genetics, and British Universities, 1900–1920
  2. Paolo Palladino
  3. pp. 300-323
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0088
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  1. Farmers Deskilled: Hybrid Corn and Farmers’ Work
  2. Deborah Fitzgerald
  3. pp. 324-343
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0089
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  1. Research, Engineering, and Science in American Engineering Colleges: 1900–1960
  2. Bruce Seely
  3. pp. 344-386
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0090
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  1. Archimedes as an Advertising Symbol
  2. D.J. Bryden, D.L. Simms
  3. pp. 387-391
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0091
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  1. Problems in Exhibiting Labor in Museums and a Technological Fix
  2. Laurence F. Gross
  3. pp. 392-400
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0092
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  1. “That World’s Fair Feeling”: Control of Water in 20th-Century America
  2. Theodore Steinberg
  3. pp. 401-409
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0093
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  1. Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America by Neil Harris (review)
  2. Harold K. Skramstad Jr.
  3. pp. 410-411
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0094
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  1. Curators and Culture: The Museum Movement in America, 1740–1870 by Joel J. Orosz (review)
  2. Michael FitzGibbon
  3. pp. 412-413
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0095
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  1. Science and the Past ed. by Sheridan Bowman (review)
  2. Bayla Singer
  3. pp. 413-415
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0096
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  1. Ingenious Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector by Donald R. Hoke (review)
  2. Dennis Zembala
  3. pp. 416-417
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0097
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  1. Possible Dreams: Enthusiasm for Technology in America ed. by John L. Wright (review)
  2. Virginia Scharff
  3. pp. 417-419
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0098
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  1. Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm by H. F. Moorhouse (review)
  2. Rudi Volti
  3. pp. 419-420
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0099
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  1. Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia by Stephen J. Pyne (review)
  2. Thomas R. Dunlap
  3. pp. 420-422
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0100
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  1. Hard Places: Reading the Landscape of America’s Historic Mining Districts by Richard V. Francaviglia (review)
  2. Terence Young
  3. pp. 422-424
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0101
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  1. Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, 1755–1825 by John Seelye (review)
  2. Frances Robb
  3. pp. 424-425
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0102
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  1. America and the Daguerreotype ed. by John Wood, and: The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science by M. Susan Barger, William B. White (review)
  2. Peter Liebhold
  3. pp. 425-427
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0103
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  1. We Will Rise in Our Might: Workingwomen’s Voices from Nineteenth-Century New England by Mary H. Blewett (review)
  2. Edward Jay Pershey
  3. pp. 427-429
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0104
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  1. “Der glorreiche Lebenslauf unserer Fabrik”: Zur Geschichte von Dorf und Baumwollspinnerei Kuchen ed. by Christel Köhle-Hezinger, Walter Ziegler (review)
  2. Stephan Lindner
  3. pp. 429-430
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0105
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  1. Frankreich und Deutschland: Forschung, Technologie und industrielle Entwicklung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert ed. by Yves Cohen, Klaus Manfrass (review)
  2. Hans-Liudger Dienel
  3. pp. 430-432
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0106
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  1. Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by David M. Vrooman (review)
  2. Steven W. Usselman
  3. pp. 432-434
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0107
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  1. Road to Power: The Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850–1917 by Steven G. Marks (review)
  2. Benjamin D. Rhodes
  3. p. 434
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0108
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  1. An American Engineer in Stalin’s Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932–1934 by Zara Witkin (review)
  2. Robert McCutcheon
  3. pp. 435-436
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0109
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  1. Power at Cost: Ontario Hydro and Rural Electrification, 1911–1958 by Keith R. Fleming (review)
  2. Gail Evans
  3. pp. 436-438
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0110
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  1. Electrifying Finland: The Transfer of a New Technology into a Late Industrialising Economy by Timo Myllyntaus (review)
  2. David E. Nye
  3. pp. 438-439
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0111
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  1. A Nation of Fliers: German Aviation and the Popular Imagination by Peter Fritzsche (review)
  2. Michael J. Neufeld
  3. pp. 440-441
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0112
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  1. Farther and Faster: Aviation’s Adventuring Years, 1909–1939 by Terry Gwynn-Jones (review)
  2. Leonard S. Reich
  3. pp. 441-442
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0113
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  1. The Politics of Aircraft: Building an American Military Industry by Jacob A. Vander Meulen, and: Airshipmen, Businessmen, and Politics, 1890–1940 by Henry Cord Meyer (review)
  2. William F. Trimble
  3. pp. 443-445
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0114
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  1. Fortress California, 1910–1961: From Warfare to Welfare by Roger W. Lotchin (review)
  2. Daniel Cornford
  3. pp. 445-447
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0115
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  1. Henry E. Huntington and the Creation of Southern California by William B. Friedricks (review)
  2. John E. Baur
  3. pp. 447-448
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0116
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  1. Constructing Urban Culture: American Cities and City Planning, 1800–1920 by Stanley K. Schultz (review)
  2. Christine M. Rosen
  3. pp. 448-450
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0117
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  1. Buy Now, Pay Later: Advertising, Credit, and Consumer Durables in the 1920s by Martha L. Olney (review)
  2. Pamela Walker Laird
  3. pp. 450-452
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0118
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  1. Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes by Allan D. Wallis (review)
  2. Michael L. Berger
  3. pp. 452-453
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0119
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  1. Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer by James L. Adams (review)
  2. Stephen H. Cutcliffe
  3. pp. 454-455
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0120
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  1. Science, Technology, and Social Progress ed. by Steven L. Goldman (review)
  2. Susan Cozzens
  3. pp. 455-456
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0121
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  1. Les révolutions de la communication XIXe–XXe siècle by Pascal Griset, and: Une histoire de la communication moderne: Espace public et vie privée by Patrice Flichy, and: La communication par la bande: Introduction aux sciences de l’information et de la communication by Daniel Bougnoux (review)
  2. Catherine Bertho Lavenir
  3. pp. 457-458
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0122
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  1. The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech by Avital Ronell (review)
  2. B. Morgan, Pauletta Morse
  3. pp. 458-459
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0123
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  1. Strange Weather: Culture, Science, and Technology in the Age of Limits by Andrew Ross (review)
  2. Rosalind Williams
  3. pp. 459-461
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0124
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  1. Blueprint for Space: Science Fiction to Science Fact ed. by Frederick I. Ordway, Randy Liebermann (review)
  2. Sylvia K. Kraemer
  3. pp. 461-462
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0125
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  1. Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI by Gregg Herken (review)
  2. Bruce L. R. Smith
  3. pp. 462-464
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0126
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  1. The Advisers: Scientists in the Policy Process by Bruce L. R. Smith (review)
  2. Gregg Herken
  3. pp. 464-465
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0127
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  1. The Technology Pork Barrel by Linda R. Cohen, Roger G. Noll (review)
  2. Derek W. Elliott
  3. pp. 465-467
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0128
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  1. Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate by Otis L. Graham, Jr (review)
  2. Robert W. Rycroft
  3. pp. 467-469
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0129
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  1. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism by Robert B. Reich (review)
  2. Nelson R. Kellogg
  3. pp. 469-471
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0130
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  1. Technology and Culture Editorship
  3. pp. 472-473
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1993.0131
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