Technology & Culture 64.3 (2023) now published!

On the Cover

Stamping Soviet Cosmonauts, Craft and Cosmos │Rachel Hill

Debate

Why Study the Precolonial African Technology and Material Culture? │Bertram Mapunda

Research Articles

Missionaries of Light and Progress in Mexico: Engineers and Technological Pilgrims Craft Necaxa Falls,1890s-1914 │ Diana Montaño

From Hand to Machine: How Indian Cloth Quality Shaped British Cotton Spinning Technology │AlkaRaman

The Camera and the Railway: Framing the Portuguese Empire and Technological Landscapes in Angola and Mozambique, 1880s-1910s │Hugo Silveira Pereira

Visions of Control: The Head-Up Display, Perceptual Labor, and a Lesson for Augmented Reality │Daniel Akselrad

Women, Reactors and Nuclear Weapons: From Revolutionary Liberation to the “Miss Atom” Pageant in (Post) Soviet Russia │Tatiana Kasperski and Paul Josephson

Atomville: Architects, Planners, and How to Survive the Bomb │Arthur Molella and Robert Kargon

Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians: Political Use of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Venice │Giacomo Bonan

The Living Machine: A Computational Approach to the Nineteenth-century Language of Technology │Daniel Wilson, Mariona Coll Ardanuy, Kaspar Beelen, Barbara McGillivray, and Ruth Ahnert

Public History

Introduction: Unearthing Technology in Public Histories of Food │Xaq Frohlich

Technology and Subaltern Knowledge at the Catalan Olive Oil Museum │Ximo Guillem-Llobat

A Historian of Technology Watches “The King, His Kitchen, and Other Stories”│Barkha Kagliwal

Book Reviews

Review of Germs and Governance: The Past, Present and Future of Hospital Infection, Prevention and Control by Ann Marie Rafferty, Marguerite Dupree, and Fay Bound Albertini│Stephan Curtis

Review of The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War by Susan R. Grayzel│Peter Thompson

Review of Les Réparations dans l’Histoire: Cultures techniques et savoir-faire dans la longue durée ed. by Gianenrico Bernasconi et al.│Jérôme Baudry

Review of The Persistence of Technology: From Maintenance and Repair to Reuse and Disposal ed. by Heike Weber and Stefan Krebs│Kevin L. Borg

Review of Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960by Elizabeth LaCouture│Irene Cieraad

Review of Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique by David Morton, and: The Politics of Housing in (Post-) Colonial Africa ed. by Kirsten Rüther et al.│Luce Beeckmans

Review of Every Household Its Own Government: Improvised Infrastructure, Entrepreneurial Citizens, and the State in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith│RobertHeinze

Review of African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development by Joshua Grace│Marcus Filippello

Review of Urban Infrastructure: Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World ed. by Joseph Heathcott, Jonathan Soffer, and Rae Zimmerman│DhanZunino Singh

Review of Conflict in Cooperation: Crossborder Infrastructures in Europe Facing the Second World War ed. by Valentine Aldebert et al.│Falk Flade

Review of Technology, Temporality and the Study of Central Asia ed. by Jonas van der Straeten and Julia Obertreis│Artemy Kalinovsky

Review of The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India by Aashique Ahmed Iqbal, and: Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998 by John D. Wong│Jürgen P. Melzer

Review of The British Aircraft Industry and American-Led Globalisation, 1943–1982 by Takeshi Sakade│Waqar H. Zaidi

Review of The Rise and Decline of Communist Czechoslovakia’s Railway Sector by Tomáš Nigrin│Michal Ďurčo

Review of No Bicycle, No Bus, No Job: The Making of Workers’ Mobility in the Netherlands, 1920–1990 by Patrick Bek│Colin Pooley

Review of Edmond Pâris et l’art naval: Des pirogues aux cuirassés by Géraldine Barron│Yao Dazhi

Review of Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty: Paper Navigators by Erika Behrisch│Penelope K. Hardy

Review of Turret versus Broadside: An Anatomy of British Naval Prestige, Revolution and Disaster, 1860–1870 by Howard J. Fuller│David Plouviez

Review of Claude-Pierre Molard (1759–1837): Un technicien dans la cité ed. by Liliane Hilaire-Pérez and François Jarrige│Claudine Fontanon

Review of 清末手工藝近代化研究 [Research on the modernization of Chinese handicrafts (1840–1911)] by Chen Cong│Shaoming Duan

Review of Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival by Jesse Adams Stein│Amanda Lanzillo

Review of Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks ed. by Lauren R. Cannady and Jennifer Ferng│Marco Storni

Review of Technocratic Visions: Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico ed. by Justin Castro and James A. Garza│Carlos S. Dimas

Review of Itineraries of Expertise: Science, Technology and the Environment in Latin America’s Long Cold War ed. by Andra B. Chastain and Timothy W. Lorek│Edna Suárez-Díaz

Review of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment by Renny Thomas│Claudia Lang

Review of Science, Technology, and the Cultural Cold War in Asia: From Atoms for Peace to Space Flight by Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya│Arif Ainur Rafiq and Hefri Asra Omika

Review of Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation by Silvia M. Lindtner│Jairui Wu

Review of Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War by Jayita Sarkar│Monamie Bhadra Haines

Review of Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha by Robert A. Jacobs│Melina Antonia Buns

Review of Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis by Toshihiro Higuchi│Néstor Herran

Review of Engaging the Atom: The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Presented. by Arne Kaijser et al.│Laura Ciglioni

Review of Ausgestrahlt: Die mediale Debatte um “Tschernobyl” in der Bundesrepublik und in Frankreich 1986/87 by Katrin Jordan│Alicia Gutting

Review of The Extraction State: A History of Natural Gas in America by Charles Blanchard│Robert Lifset

Review of Faith in a Beam of Light: Magic Lantern and Belief in Western Europe, 1860–1940 ed. by Sabine Lenk and Natalija Majsova│Daniel Pérez-Zapico

Review of Serving a Wired World: London’s Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital by Katie Hindmarch-Watson│Michael Kay

Reviewof Radiobilder: Eine Kulturgeschichte des Radios in Österreich by Christine Ehardt│Hans-Ulrich Wagner

Review of Dissensuous Modernism: Women Writers, the Senses, and Technology by Allyson De Maagd│Lena Wånggren

Review of The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media by Kevin Driscoll│Ian Milligan

Review of Arcade Britannia: A Social History of the British Amusement Arcade by Alan Meades│Dustin Abnet

Review of Switched On: Bob Moogand the Synthesizer Revolution by Albert Glinsky│Leah Kardos

Review of Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry by Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly│Noah Arceneaux

Review of Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age by Alexander R. Galloway│Jacob Gaboury

Review of The Riviera, Exposed: An Ecohistory of Postwar Tourism and North African Labor by Stephen L.Harp│Robert Groß

Review of Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction by Helen Anne Curry│Barbara Hahn

Review of Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile by Joshua Frens-String│Samuel J. Martland

Review of Designing Modern Japan by Sarah Teasley│Jessamyn R. Abel

Review of The Culture of Nature in the History of Design ed. by Kjetil Fallan│Regina Lee Blaszczyk