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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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