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Volume 65, Number 4, October 2024
On The Cover
Cover Essay: Fusing Technology with Art in Advertising | Elizabeth Stephens
Debate
Debate: Building a U.S. Regulatory Empire in the Chip War with China | John Krige
Research Articles
“Artificial Mothers” on Display: How Public Exhibits Shaped the Development of Incubators | Elizabeth Stephens
Poisonous Workplaces: What Workers Faced in British Chemical Weapons Factories | Peter Thorsheim
Identity Instrumentalized: Pattern Recognition as an Epistemology of Surveillance, 1960–66 | Aaron Gluck-Thaler
Toward a Symmetrical Global History of Technology: The Adoption of Chlorination in Bogotá, London, and Jersey City, 1900–1920 | Edisson Aguilar Torres
Extreme, Outrageous, and (Un)reliable: Navigating Uncertainty in the Development of Sound-Based Fog Signals in Scotland, 1860–1900 | Rachel Dishington
Automating Power: Cybernetics and Sovereignty in Cold War North Korea | Benoit Berthelier
Old Wine in New Bottles: The Technological Promise of Biorefinery In Historical Perspective | Marcin Krasnodębski
Public History
Public History: Infrastructural Imaginaries and the Production of Affective Power | Felix Mauch
Public History: Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Radical Action | Jan Hansen
Public History: Quantum Computing as Imagined Infrastructure | Daniela Zetti
Public History: The Infrastructural Utopia of Metropa | Stefan Esselborn and Martin Meiske
Organizational Notes
Da Vinci Medal Address: A Centrifugal Maelstrom? | Alex Roland
Book Reviews
Review of Technikwenden: Historische Perspektiven auf soziotechnische Um- und Aufbrüche [Technological turns: Historical perspectives on socio-technical upheavals and changes] ed. by Heike Weber | Felix Mauch
Review of Developing to Scale: Technology and the Making of Global Health by Heidi Morefield | Cal Biruk
Review of Pious Labor: Islam, Artisanship, and Technology in Colonial India by Amanda Lanzillo | Bidisha Dhar
Review of Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects by Kirsten Moore-Sheeley | Kundai Manamere
Review of Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development by Anto Mohsin | George Wilkenfeld
Review of The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in Cuba by Gustav Cederlöf | Albert Gil Gil
Review of States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean by Elizabeth R. Wlliams | Önder Eren Akgül
Review of Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety by Philipp Lehmann | Brock Cutler
Review of Die Geburt des Geoengineerings: Großbauprojekte in der Frühphase des Anthropozäns [The Birth of Geoengineering: Large-scale construction projects in the early phase of the Anthropocene] by Martin Meiske | Leander Diener
Review of Bien au chaud: Histoire du chauffage au XXe siècle [Keeping warm: The history of heating in the twentieth century] by Renan Viguié | Alain Beltran
Review of Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America by Caleb Wellum | James Allison
Review of The Toxic Ship: The Voyage of the Khian Sea and the Global Waste Trade by Simone M. Müller | Adam M. Romero
Review of Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia by Kjetil Fallan | Rob Gioielli
Review of Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire by Malcolm F. Purinton | Kenneth Bertrams
Review of Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America by Beth Linker | Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
Review of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit by Kaveh Askari | Pedram Partovi
Review of Sounding Human: Music and Machines, 1740–2020 by Deirdre Loughridge | Joeri Bruyninckx
Review of High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape by Marc Masters | John Hajduk
Review of Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus | Joris Mercelis
Review of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization by Nina Lager Vestberg | Darren Newbury
Review of Capturing Glaciers: A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming by Dani Inkpen | Josh Ellenbogen
Review of Variable Conditions: Para-computational Arts in Canada, 1965–1995 ed. by Adam Lauder | Lindsay Caplan
Review of Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu | John Alekna
Review of Die Stadtrohrpost: Geschichte einer kritischen Infrastruktur in Berlin und Hamburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [The city tube post office: the history of a critical infrastructure in Berlin and Hamburg in the 19th and 20th centuries] by Cleopatra Schuhmacher | Christian Franke
Geschichten der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland [Histories of artificial intelligence in the Federal Republic of Germany] ed. by Rudolf Seising | Ricky Wichum
Review of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy by Ben Collier | Anushah Hossain
Review of Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications by Jacob Ward | Rita Zajácz
Review of The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion by Iván Chaar López | Salem Elzway
Review of A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768–1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America by Phillip Reid | Karel Davids
Review of If Cars Could Walk: Postsocialist Streets in Transformation ed. by Ger Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene | Lyubomir Pozharliev
Review of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport by Eric Porter | Victor Marquez
Review of Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan (2 vols.) ed. by Erich Pauer and Regine Mathias | Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Review of “Culture” of Science and the Making of Modern India by Deepak Kumar |
Kamlesh Mohan
Review of Transforming American Science: Universities, the Government, and the Cold War by Jonathan Engel | Jason Krupar
Review of Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program by Siegfried S. Hecker with Elliot A. Serbin | John P. Dimoia
Review of Craft is Political ed. by D Wood | Joshua Grace
Review of Precision: A History of American Warfare by James Patton Rogers | Tim Schultz
Review of Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan by Gennifer Weisenfeld | Peter Thompson
Review of Sonar to Quartz Clock: Technology and Physics in War, Academy, and Industry by Shaul Katzir | Arne Schirrmacher
Review of Mysteries of the Deep: How Seafloor Drilling Expeditions Revolutionized Our Understanding of Earth History by James Lawrence Powell | Samantha Muka