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  1. “The Most Reliable Time”: William Bond, the New England Railroads, and Time Awareness in 19th-Century America
  2. Carlene Stephens
  3. pp. 1-24
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0141
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  1. The Adoption of Standard Time
  2. Ian R. Bartky
  3. pp. 25-56
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0144
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  1. “Society Improved the Way You Can Improve a Dynamo”: Charles P. Steinmetz and the Politics of Efficiency
  2. John M. Jordan
  3. pp. 57-82
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0145
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  1. Engineers and Economists: Historical Perspectives on the Pricing of Electricity
  2. William J. Hausman, John L. Neufeld
  3. pp. 83-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0146
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  1. “The Automobile in American Life,” an Exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
  2. Charles K. Hyde
  3. pp. 105-111
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0147
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  1. Iron in the Wilderness: The Michigan Iron Industry Museum
  2. Terry S. Reynolds
  3. pp. 112-117
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0148
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  1. Smithsonian Videohistory Program Symposium—Washington, D.C., May 5, 1988
  2. Terri A. Schorzman
  3. pp. 118-121
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0149
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  1. International Symposium on Lewis Mumford—University of Pennsylvania, November 5–7, 1987
  2. Jane Morley
  3. pp. 122-127
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0150
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  1. The Lewis Mumford Reader ed. by Donald L. Miller (review)
  2. Arthur P. Molella
  3. pp. 128-130
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0151
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  1. Made in America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets by Lisa M. Steinman (review)
  2. Joseph W. Slade
  3. pp. 130-131
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0152
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  1. Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895–1984 by Paul Brians (review)
  2. Paul Boyer
  3. pp. 131-133
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0153
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  1. The Dragon’s Tail: Radiation Safety in the Manhattan Project, 1942–1946 by Barton C. Hacker (review)
  2. A. Costandina Titus
  3. pp. 133-134
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0154
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  1. Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America by Peter J. Kuznick (review)
  2. Elizabeth Hodes
  3. pp. 135-136
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0155
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  1. The Launching of Modern American Science 1846–1876 by Robert V. Bruce (review)
  2. Charlotte M. Porter
  3. pp. 136-138
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0156
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  1. The Civilized Engineer by Samuel C. Florman (review)
  2. Elting Morison
  3. pp. 138-139
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0157
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  1. FDR’s Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the TVA by Roy Talbert (review)
  2. Jean Christie
  3. pp. 139-141
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0158
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  1. Water Power in the “Wilderness”: The History of Bonneville Lock and Dam by William F. Willingham (review)
  2. Terry S. Reynolds
  3. pp. 141-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0159
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  1. Kingsport, Tennessee: A Planned American City by Margaret R. Wolfe (review)
  2. Howard P. Segal
  3. pp. 143-144
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0160
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  1. Prime Cut: Livestock Raising and Meatpacking in the United States, 1607–1983 by Jimmy M. Skaggs (review)
  2. Mark Wilde
  3. pp. 145-146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0161
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  1. Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin’ Johnny: A History of the Farm Tractor and Its Impact on America by Robert C. Williams (review)
  2. Homer E. Socolofsky
  3. pp. 146-147
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0162
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  1. Just New from the Mills: Printed Cottons in America, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, from the Collection of the Museum of American Textile History by Diane L. F. Affleck (review)
  2. Maureen Quimby
  3. pp. 147-149
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0163
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  1. The Roman Port and Fishery of Cosa: A Center of Ancient Trade by Anna Marguerite McCann, et al (review)
  2. Nicholas Hartmann
  3. pp. 149-150
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0164
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  1. Ancient Chinese Bridges by Tang Huancheng (review)
  2. Tom F. Peters
  3. pp. 151-152
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0165
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  1. Die Song-Dynastie (960 bis 1279): Eine neue Gesellschaft im Spiegel ihrer Kultur by Dieter Kuhn (review)
  2. R. P. Multhauf
  3. pp. 152-153
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0166
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  1. Harvesting the Air: Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England by Edward J. Kealey (review)
  2. Alex Keller
  3. pp. 153-155
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0167
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  1. The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times by Peter Brimblecombe (review)
  2. Carlos Flick
  3. pp. 155-156
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0168
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  1. The Mexican Colonial Copper Industry by Elinore M. Barrett (review)
  2. Michael L. Wayman
  3. pp. 156-157
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0169
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  1. Technological Education—Technological Style ed. by Melvin Kranzberg (review)
  2. Steven L. Goldman
  3. pp. 158-159
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0170
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  1. Education for the Industrial World: The Écoles d’Arts et Métiers and the Rise of French Industrial Engineering by Charles R. Day (review)
  2. Janis Langins
  3. pp. 159-160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0171
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  1. La France des électriciens 1880–1980 ed. by Fabienne Cardot (review)
  2. Robert L. Frost
  3. pp. 160-162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0172
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  1. The History of N. V. Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken. Vol. 1: The Origin of the Dutch Incandescent Lamp Industry by A. Heerding (review)
  2. W. Bernard Carlson
  3. pp. 162-164
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0173
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  1. Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830–1930 by Geoffrey Tweedale (review)
  2. Robert B. Gordon
  3. pp. 164-165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0174
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  1. The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850–1940 by Daniel R. Headrick (review)
  2. Rondo Cameron
  3. pp. 166-167
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0175
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  1. The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898–1937 by Randall E. Stross (review)
  2. Bruce Stone
  3. pp. 167-169
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0176
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  1. Another Icarus: Percy Pilcher and the Quest for Flight by Philip Jarrett (review)
  2. William F. Trimble
  3. pp. 169-170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0177
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  1. History of Rocketry and Astronautics ed. by R. Cargill Hall (review)
  2. James R. Hansen
  3. pp. 170-172
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0178
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  1. A Few Good Men from Univac by David E. Lundstrom (review)
  2. Gary Wren
  3. pp. 173-174
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0179
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  1. The Post-Industrial Utopians by Boris Frankel (review)
  2. Kenneth M. Roemer
  3. pp. 174-175
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0180
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  1. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (review)
  2. Peggy Kidwell
  3. pp. 175-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0181
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  1. “A Problem for Archimedes”
  2. D. L. Simms
  3. pp. 177-178
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0182
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  1. Simeon North, John Hall, and Mechanized Manufacturing
  2. Robert B. Gordon
  3. pp. 179-188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0183
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  1. Bern Dibner (1897–1988)
  2. Silvio A. Bedini
  3. pp. 189-193
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0184
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  1. Lynn Townsend White, Jr. (1907–1987)
  2. Bert S. Hall
  3. pp. 194-213
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0185
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  1. Directory of Individual Members: The Society for the History of Technology
  3. pp. 215-247
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1989.0186
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