Technology and Culture 64.2(2023) published!

We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists.

April 2023, Volume 64, No. 2

On the Cover 

Visual Images in Sound Studies | Keisuke Yamada

Research Articles

Debating New Media: Rethinking Communications History | Richard John

Mobilizing Citizens’ Ears: Aural Training as Civil Defense, 1941-45 | Keisuke Yamado  

Sound on the Quiet: Speaker Identification and Auditory Objectivity in Czechoslovak Fonoscopy, 1975-90 | Anna Kvicalova 

Patents In Miniature: The Effects of Microfilm as an Information Technology, 1938-68 | Jose Bellido

The Engineer as Economist: Sewers and the Making of the Water Consumer in Colonial Cairo, 1890 | Shebab Ismail

To Dam or Not to Dam: The Social Construction of an Ottoman Hydraulic Project, 1701–02 | Faisal H. Husain

The Search for Independence: Planning for France’s Information Technology Autonomy, 1958–66 | Laureen Kuo

Improving Swedish Steelmaking: Circulation and Localized Knowledge-Making in Early Modernity | Måns Jansson and Göran Rydén

Essay

Taking Up Neglected Histories | Suzanne Moon

Awards

Society for the History of Technology Awards and Fellowships 2022

Review Essays

The Machine Age: Curation and Memory in Two U. S. Exhibits | Thomas C. Cornillie

Portuguese History Since the Late Middle Ages Through the History of Technology: A Four Volume Overview | Lino Camprubí

Book Reviews

Review of Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History by Arnold Pacey and Francesca Bray | Jennifer Karns Alexander

Review of Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects edited by Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Miranda Critchley | Allison Marsh

Review of L’animal et l’homme: De l’exploitation à la sauvegarde edited by Anne-Marie Flambard-Héricher and François Blary | Violette Pouillard

Review of The History of Forensic Science in India by Saumitra Basu | Saurav Kumar Rai

Review of From Savage Minds to Savage Machines: Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design by Ginger Nolan |Émeline Brulé

Review of Performance Space and Stage Technologies: A Comparative Perspective on Theatre History edited by Nawata Yuji and Hans Joachim Dethlefs | Pascale Aebischer

Review of Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union by Christina E. Crawford | Iva Glisic

Review of Robo sapiens japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation by Jennifer Robertson | Rodrigo Ochigame

Review of The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 by Autumn Womanck | Rayvon Fouché

Review of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner | Richard F. Hirsh

Review of Making Energy Markets: The Origins of Electricity Liberalisation in Europe by Ronan Bolton | Yves Bouvier

Review of Tóxicos invisibles: La construcción de la ignorancia ambiental edited by Ximo Guillem-Llobat and Agustí Nieto-Galan | Laura Barbier

Review of The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion by Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing | Ray Brescia

Review of When the Nerds Go Marching In: How Digital Technology Moved from the Margins to the Mainstream of Political Campaigns by Rachel K. Gibson | Ken Rogerson

Review of Assembly Codes: The Logistics of Media edited by Matthew Hockenberry, Nicole Starosielski, and Susan Zieger | Noah Arceneaux

Review of Papal Bull: Print, Politics and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome by Margaret Meserve | Christa Lundberg

Review of The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child by Morgan G. Ames | Daniel Lövheim

Review of Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy by Lindsay Caplan | W. Patrick McCray

Review of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick | Valérie Schafer

Review of Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age by Ashley Sweetman | Jacob Ward

Review of A History of Financial Technology and Regulation: From American Incorporation to Cryptocurrency and Crowdfunding by Seth C. Oranburg | Florian Vetter

Review of Software Rights: How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America by Gerardo Con Díaz | Dan L. Burk

Review of Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness by Michael Black | Luke Fernandez

Review of Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by James L. Nolan, Jr. | Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

Review of Une longue marche vers l’indépendance et la transparence: l’histoire de l’Autorité de sûreté nucléaire française by Philippe Saint Raymond and Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator by Gregory B. Jaczko | Albert Presas i Puig

Review of Discordant Memories: Atomic Age Narratives and Visual Culture by Alison Fields | Robert Jacobs

Review of Life in Space: NASA Life Sciences Research during the Late Twentieth Century by Maura Phillips Mackowski | Alwin J. Cubasch

Review of Assured Access: A History of the US Air Force Space Launch Enterprise, 1945–2020 by David N. Spires | Michael W. Hankins

Review of Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race: The Origins of Global Satellite Communications by Hugh R. Slotten |Roger D. Launius

Review of Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial Complex by Alex Roland | Jonson Miller

Review of Science and Apocalypse in Bertrand Russell: A Cultural Sociology by Javier Pérez-Jara and Lino Camprubí | Carl Mitcham

Review of Knowledge Regulation and National Security in Postwar America by Mario Daniels and John Krige | Torsten Kathke

Review of Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy by Alex Sayf Cummings | Karen A. Rader

Review of Chasing Automation: The Politics of Technology and Jobs from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Society by Jerry Prout | G. Pascal Zachary

Review of Strands of Modernization: The Circulation of Technology and Business Practices in East Asia, 1850–1920edited by David B. Sicilia and David G. Wittner | Mila Davids

Review of Railways’ Economic Impact on Uttar Pradesh and Colonial North India (1860–1914): The Iron Raj by Ian D. Derbyshire | David Arnold

Review of Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development: Steamship Building in Nineteenth-Century China, 1828–1895 by Hsien-ch’un | Bert Becker

Review of Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market by Meng Zhang | Faizah Zakaria

Review of Chronicles of Mechanical Engineering in the United States edited by Thomas H. Fehring and Terry S. Reynolds | Peter Liebhold