Elena Kochetkova
Elena Kochetkova
This essay discusses the history of technology in Russia, focusing on several major developments. Its twofold aim is to provide insights into the current state of research, with a brief reference to the technological history that evolved du...
Chenxiao Li
Chenxiao Li
Tracing the history of Japan's electrification prior to the 1930s reveals how energy infrastructure expanded under the logic of fossil capitalism. Under market logic, privately owned utilities converted abundant coal and hydropower resource...
Georgi Georgiev
Georgi Georgiev
Technical monitoring-the routine assessment of radio signal quality-gained unexpected significance during the Cold War. In an era marked by unreliable sources and propaganda, quantifiable technical data became especially valuable. Radio Fre...
When the Lamps Went Out: Emotion, Memory, and Rural Electrification in England and Finland, 1880s-1910s [0.03%]
当灯光熄灭时：情感、记忆与英国和芬兰农村电气化（1880年代-1910年代）
Tiia Sahrakorpi,Cherish Watton
Tiia Sahrakorpi
At the turn of the twentieth century, rapid technological change impacted urban and rural areas in different yet interconnected ways. By comparing how electricity affected Finnish and English inhabitants through essays collected between 195...
Early Digital Technologies and the Harmonization of Traffic Information Systems in Europe, 1974-96 [0.03%]
20世纪70至90年代欧洲交通信息系统和谐化过程中的早期数字技术研究(1974-96)
Christian Franke,Veit Damm
Christian Franke
Traffic congestion and disruptions caused by mass motorization posed a huge challenge for transportation in Europe by the 1970s. One of the earliest responses was traffic radio, which became a key feature of public broadcasting during the 1...
Pipe Dreams: Technological Utopianism and the Global Pursuit of Desalination for Development in the 1960s [0.03%]
一管长梦：20世纪六七十年代的技术乐观主义与全球海水淡化开发计划
Elizabeth Hameeteman
Elizabeth Hameeteman
In the early 1960s, global actors and international organizations embraced desalination as a promising development tool and a fresh expression of technology's power to control nature. Amid postwar reconstruction, decolonization, and Cold Wa...
Crafting the Maritime Metalwork: Global Tin, Local Hands, and Pewter Innovation in South China [0.03%]
海上铜金属工艺锻造：全球 tin 和本地手工与南方中国 pewter 创新
Yijun Wang
Yijun Wang
Pewter was widely used in Chinese daily life, yet it features in few studies. This article examines technological change and stylistic innovation in China's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pewter making to reveal how maritime connections...
The Technological Vagina: Kegel's Perineometer and the Rehabilitation of Womanhood [0.03%]
技术阴道：凯格尔会阴测量仪与女性康复史上的一页
Madeleine S L Ware
Madeleine S L Ware
This article argues that the endurance of Arnold Kegel's name derives not from his exercises but from his device-the perineometer-a 1940s vaginal pressure gauge that transformed ideas of sexual health and disability in postwar America. By s...
Losing the Salmon: Technology, Science, and Ecological Decline on the Rhine [0.03%]
逝去的鲑鱼：莱茵河的技术、科学与生态衰落
Nil Disco
Nil Disco
By the 1930s, the once flourishing salmon fishing industry on the Rhine River ended. Concerns about decimating salmon stocks since 1850 had led to regulation efforts by riparian states, based on the assumption that overfishing was the chief...
Georgi Georgiev
Georgi Georgiev
While radio was central to Cold War conflicts between Western democracies and communist regimes, it largely escaped the period's familiar visual iconography due to the medium's acoustic and clandestine nature. This essay examines over two h...