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We are proud to present the next issue of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; we draw on scholarship from diverse disciplines and publish insightful pieces intended for general readers as well as specialists. This is a Special Issue on bovine technologies, guest edited by Tamar Novick.
 

 

October 2023, Volume 64, No. 4

 

 

On the Cover

Speculations with Vaginal Specula | Tamar Novick

 

 

Introduction

Introducing Bovine Regimes: When Animals Become Technologies | Tamar Novick

 

 

Special Section – Bovine Regimes

The Camera and the Cattle: Bovine Photography and Technologies of “Improvement” in Colonial South India | David Arnold

 

Sex Panic and the Productive Infertility of the Freemartin | Lucy Beech, Tamar Novick

 

Cows and Humans as Technology Users: Multispecies Agency and Gender in Automated Milking Systems in Finland | Taija Kaarlenkaski

 

Skin and Sound: Caring for and Crafting Bovine Hide in South India | Tamar Salvan Kannan

 

Maintaining Bovine | Nicole Welk-Joeger

 

 

Research Articles

Do Microscopes Have Politics? Gendering the Electron Microscope in Laboratory Biological Research | Nicola Williams

 

Shaping Communications: The Development of the National Telegraph Network in Ireland, 1850–70 | Adrian Kirwan

 

 

Methodology

Animating History: Digitally Mapping the United States Telegraph System | Edmund Russell, Lauren Winckler

 

 

Public History

Introducing the Act of Looking at Technology-in-Operation | Rachel Hill

 

Eye Appeal Is Buy Appeal | Ai Hsano

 

Why Don’t We Look at Television? | Emily Rees Koerner

 

Imaging Landscapes, Roads, Race, and Power | Thomas Zeller

 

 

Essay

Beyond Imagined Discontinuity: Review of the Book Series Science and Civilization in Korea | Seunghyun Oh, Sangwoon Yoo

 

Book Reviews

 

Review of Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu ed. by Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Michael Nylan | Daniel Patrick Morgan

 

Review of Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby | Rabun Taylor

 

Review of Technical Knowledge in Europe, 1200–1500 AD ed. by Ricardo Córdoba de la Llave and Javier López Rider | Elspeth Whitney

 

Review of The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Automata, Waxworks, Fountains, Labyrinths by Angela Vanhaelen | Joseph Wachelder

 

Review of Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum by Mike Jones | Annemarie De Wild

 

Review of At the Limits of Cure by Bharat Jayram Venkat | Amit Prasad

 

Review of Gendered Capitalism: Sewing Machines and Multinational Business in Spain and Mexico, 1850–1940 by Paula A. de la Cruz-Fernández | Rachel Maines

 

Review of Plasticidade: Plasticity—A History of Plastics in Portugal ed. by Maria Elvira Callapez, Sara Marques da Cruz, and Vânia Carvalho | Jeffrey L. Meikle

 

Review of Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births by Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick | S. Y. Cheung

 

Review of Building Medical Schools, Making Doctors: Architecture and the Modern American Physician by Katherine L. Carroll | Joel Howell

 

Review of The Architecture of Steam: Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis by James Douet | Tom Crook

 

Review of Imperial Steam: Modernity on the Sea Route to India, 1837–74 by Jonathan Stafford | Tommy Jamison

 

Review of The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History by George Demidowicz | Christopher Ferguson

 

Review of Scientific Americans: Invention, Technology, and National Identity by Susan Branson | Paul Israel

 

Review of Northern Sparks: Innovation, Technology Policy, and the Arts in Canada from Expo 67 to the Internet Age by Michael Century | Dawna Schuld

 

Review of The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge by David Larsson Heidenblad | Sverker Sörlin

 

Review of Valuing Clean Air: The EPA and the Economics of Environmental Protection by Charles Halvorson | Jennifer Thomson

 

Review of Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move by Vincanne Adams | David D. Vail

 

Review of The Age of the Soybean: An Environmental History of Soy During the Great Acceleration ed. by Claiton Marcio da Silva and Claudio de Majo | Kregg Hetherington

 

Review of Justice and the Interstates: The Racist Truth about Urban Highways ed. by Ryan Reft, Amanda Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca Retzlaff | David Prytherch

 

Review of The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postcolonial Tanzania by Michael Degani | Frank Edward

 

Review of The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750–1850 by David Gwyn | Albert Churella

 

Review of Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters by Thomas Zeller | Peter Norton

 

Review of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight by Nicholas Dagen Bloom | Bob Post

 

Review of Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation by Jürgen P. Melzer | Takashi Nishiyama

 

Review of The Development of Nuclear Propulsion in the Royal Navy, 1946–1975 by Gareth Michael Jones | Timothy S. Wolters

 

Review of Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900 by Viktoria Tkaczyk | Anna Kvicalova

 

Review of Horn, or The Counterside of Media by Henning Schmidgen | Mark Paterson

 

Review of Cine-Mobility: Twentieth-Century Transformations in Korea’s Film and Transportation by Han Sang Kim | Keung Yoon Bae

 

Review of Rare Merit: Women in Photography in Canada, 1840–1940 by Colleen Skidmore | Siobhan Angus

 

Review of Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt by Andrew Simon | Arthur Asseraf

 

Review of Under the Radar: Tracking Western Radio Listeners in the Soviet Union by R. Eugene Parta | Ana Cohle

 

Review of Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans by Bala James Baptiste, and: Black Radio/Black Resistance: The Life & Times of the Tom Joyner Morning Show by Micaela di Leonardo | Alisha Lola Jones

 

Review of Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age by Brian Jefferson | Jason Ludwig

 

Review of The Prison House of the Circuit: Politics of Control from Analog to Digital by Jeremy Packer et al. | Matthew Hockenberry

 

Review of Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing ed. by Dick van Lente | James W. Cortada

 

Review of Algorithmic Culture Before the Internet by Ted Striphas | Jeffrey M. Binder

 

Review of Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard D. Geoghegan | Ronan Le Roux

 

Review of Hot Tubs and Pac-Man: Gender and the Early Video Game Industry in the United States (1950s–1980s) by Anne Ladyem McDivitt | Carly A. Kocurek

 

Review of The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: Technology, History, and the Limits of Telehealth by Jeremy A. Greene | James Stark