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  1. Engineering and Politics: The Channel Tunnel in the 1880s
  2. Anthony S. Travis
  3. pp. 461-497
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0041
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  1. The Internal Functions of a 14th-Century Florentine Flour Factory
  2. John Muendel
  3. pp. 498-520
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0042
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  1. Canada’s Mines Branch and Its Synthetic Fuel Program for Energy Independence
  2. Anthony N. Stranges
  3. pp. 521-554
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0043
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  1. Industry, Technology, and the “Labor Question” in 19th-Century America: Seeking Synthesis
  2. Merritt Roe Smith
  3. pp. 555-570
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0044
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  1. The Dibner Award
  3. pp. 571-572
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0045
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  1. The IEEE Life Members Prize in Electrical History
  3. pp. 572-573
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0046
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  1. The Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize
  3. p. 573
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0047
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  1. The Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize
  3. pp. 573-574
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0048
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  1. The Abbott Payson Usher Prize
  3. pp. 574-575
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0049
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  1. The Dexter Prize
  3. pp. 575-578
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0050
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  1. The Leonardo da Vinci Medal
  3. pp. 579-586
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0051
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  1. The Cleveland Meeting, October 18–21, 1990
  3. pp. 587-593
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0052
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  1. The International Committee for the History of Technology Meeting, Paris, July 1990
  2. Miriam R. Levin, Arwen Mohun
  3. pp. 594-595
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0053
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  1. Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures by Anthony F. Aveni (review)
  2. David S. Landes
  3. pp. 596-599
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0054
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  1. The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat by Martin Kemp (review)
  2. Nicholas Adams
  3. pp. 599-601
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0055
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  1. Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics, Psychology, and Style by Debora L. Silverman (review)
  2. Miriam R. Levin
  3. pp. 601-602
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0056
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  1. Samuel F. B. Morse by Paul J. Staiti (review)
  2. Lillian B. Miller
  3. pp. 602-604
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0057
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  1. New Profession, Old Order: Engineers and German Society, 1815–1914 by Kees Gispen (review)
  2. Donald Thomas
  3. pp. 604-605
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0058
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  1. Government and Expertise: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 1860–1919 ed. by Roy MacLeod (review)
  2. David H. Guston
  3. pp. 606-607
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0059
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  1. A Promising Field: Engineering at Alabama, 1837–1987 by Robert J. Norrell (review)
  2. Terry S. Reynolds
  3. pp. 607-608
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0060
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  1. The Conrey Placer Mining Company: A Pioneer Gold-dredging Enterprise in Montana, 1897–1922 by Clark C. Spence (review)
  2. Alan S. Newell
  3. pp. 609-610
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0061
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  1. Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America’s Bloody Coal Industry by Priscilla Long (review)
  2. Gay Bindocci
  3. pp. 610-611
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0062
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  1. Vertical Transportation in Old Back Bay: A Museum Case Study—the Acquisition of a Small Residential Hydraulic Elevator by Robert M. Vogel (review)
  2. Anne Millbrooke
  3. pp. 611-612
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0063
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  1. Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West by Mark S. Foster, and: Henry J. Kaiser—American Empire Builder: An Insider’s View by Albert P. Heiner (review)
  2. Donald C. Jackson
  3. pp. 612-614
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0064
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  1. Second Century of the Skyscraper ed. by Lynn S. Beedle, and: Hongkong Bank: The Building of Norman Foster’s Masterpiece by Stephanie Williams (review)
  2. Jane Morley
  3. pp. 615-617
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0065
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  1. Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700–1865 by Richard D. Brown (review)
  2. Richard R. John
  3. pp. 617-619
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0066
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  1. Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management by JoAnne Yates (review)
  2. Steven Lubar
  3. pp. 619-621
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0067
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  1. Behind, the Tube: A History of Broadcasting Technology and Business by Andrew F. Inglis (review)
  2. R. William Maule
  3. pp. 621-622
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0068
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  1. New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America by Richard S. Tedlow (review)
  2. Pamela Walker Laird
  3. pp. 622-624
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0069
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  1. The Piano in America, 1890–1940 by Craig H. Roell (review)
  2. Karen Linn
  3. pp. 624-626
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0070
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  1. Transportation in Iowa: A Historical Summary by William H. Thompson (review)
  2. George W. Hilton
  3. p. 626
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0071
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  1. America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform and Social Change, 1893–1923 by Peter J. Ling (review)
  2. Lindy Biggs
  3. pp. 627-628
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0072
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  1. Visions of a Flying Machine: The Wright Brothers and the Process of Invention by Peter L. Jakab (review)
  2. Joseph J. Corn
  3. pp. 628-630
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0073
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  1. Knights of the Air: The Life and Times of the Extraordinary Pioneers Who First Built British Aeroplanes by Peter King (review)
  2. Alfred Gollin
  3. pp. 630-631
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0074
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  1. Where Eagles Land: Planning and Development of U.S. Army Airfields, 1910–1941 by Jerold E. Brown (review)
  2. Frank N. Schubert
  3. pp. 631-632
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0075
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  1. Race to the Stratosphere: Manned Scientific Ballooning in America by David H. DeVorkin (review)
  2. Virginia P. Dawson
  3. pp. 633-634
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0076
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  1. Apollo: The Race to the Moon by Charles Murray, Catherine Cox (review)
  2. John M. Logsdon
  3. pp. 634-636
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0077
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  1. Astronomer by Chance by Bernard Lovell (review)
  2. Robert W. Smith
  3. pp. 636-637
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0078
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  1. The Space Telescope: A Study of NASA, Science, Technology, and Politics by Robert W. Smith (review)
  2. Richard P. Barke
  3. pp. 637-639
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0079
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  1. Sandia National Laboratories: The Postwar Decade by Necah S. Furman (review)
  2. Catherine Westfall
  3. pp. 639-641
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0080
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  1. A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative by Sanford Lakoff, Herbert F. York (review)
  2. Sylvia Doughty Fries
  3. pp. 641-643
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0081
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  1. Science, Technology and the Military ed. by Everett Mendelsohn, et al (review)
  2. Barton C. Hacker
  3. pp. 643-646
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0082
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  1. The Patterns of War through the Eighteenth Century by Larry H. Addington (review)
  2. Kelly DeVries
  3. pp. 646-648
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0083
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  1. Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445–1871 ed. by John A. Lynn (review)
  2. Daniel R. Headrick
  3. pp. 648-650
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0084
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  1. “Vulgar and Mechanick”: The Scientific Instrument Trade in Ireland, 1650–1921 by J. E. Burnett, A. D. Morrison-Low (review)
  2. Deborah Jean Warner
  3. pp. 650-651
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0085
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  1. History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment ed. by Warren Leon, Roy Rosenzweig (review)
  2. Harold K. Skramstad Jr.
  3. pp. 651-653
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0086
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  1. The Exploratorium: The Museum as Laboratory by Hilde Hein (review)
  2. Marcel C. LaFollette
  3. pp. 653-655
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0087
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  1. The “Military Revolution”: Military History or History of Europe?
  2. Harold Dorn
  3. pp. 656-658
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0088
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  1. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1989)
  2. Henry Lowood, Judith A. Adams, Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Jane Morley, Christine M. Roysdon, Ian Winship
  3. pp. 659-776
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0089
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  1. Author Index (1989)
  3. pp. 777-835
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1991.0184
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