The "Script" of a New Urban Layout: Mobility, Environment, and Embellishment in Lisbon's Streets (1850-1910) [0.03%]
“剧本”与新城市布局：里斯本街道上的移动性、环境和美化（1850—1910）
Lvaro Ferreira da Silva,M Luísa Sousa
Lvaro Ferreira da Silva
This article is at the crossroads of two scholarly traditions: the history of technology studying urban infrastructures and the history of urban planning. Using Actor Network Theory's concept of "script," it analyzes the strategic role play...
The Locksmith, the Surgeon, and the Mechanical Hand: Communicating Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Europe [0.03%]
锁匠、外科医生和机械手：早期现代欧洲的技术知识交流
Heidi Hausse
Heidi Hausse
This article uses a locksmith's design for a mechanical hand in the surgeon Ambroise Paré's widely influential Oeuvres (1575) to examine the transmission of technical knowledge in early modern Europe. The article interprets Paré's chapter...
Parliament's Debates about Infrastructure: An Exercise in Using Dynamic Topic Models to Synthesize Historical Change [0.03%]
议会有关基础设施的辩论内容：利用动态主题模型归纳历史变迁的一个案例研究
Jo Guldi
Jo Guldi
Can "distant reading" and digital tools enhance the history of technology by revealing hitherto undetected patterns in the record? Using the parliamentary debates of Britain in the nineteenth century, this essay revisits the history of infr...
A Hard Sell: Factors Influencing the Interwar Adoption of Tungsten Carbide Cutting Tools in Germany, Britain, and the United States [0.03%]
艰难的销售： tungsten 碳化物在德国、英国和美国之间的战争采用因素的影响
Hermione Giffard
Hermione Giffard
Cemented tungsten carbide cutting tools-virtually unknown to historians-came on the market in the late 1920s. Although existing literature alleges that their adoption was rapid and universal, contemporary data indicate that the rate of adop...
Designing to the Test: Performance Standards and Technological Change in the U.S. Automobile after 1966 [0.03%]
以测试为导向的设计：1966年以后美国汽车性能标准与技术变革的关系研究
Lee Jared Vinsel
Lee Jared Vinsel
Performance standards have played an important part in the regulation of technology for many years, yet they have received little attention from historians. This article presents a three-part framework of analysis for examining the role of ...
Exhibiting Cosmos [0.03%]
展示宇宙
Nasser Zakariya
Nasser Zakariya
London's Water Supply before 1800 and the Roots of the Networked City [0.03%]
伦敦在1800年之前的供水系统及网络化城市的根源
Leslie Tomory
Leslie Tomory
The New River Company was founded in London in the early seventeenth century to provide water for its inhabitants through a network of pipes. Although it grew slowly at first, after 1660 the company began to take on tens of thousands of cus...
Resource Geopolitics: Cold War Technologies, Global Fertilizers, and the Fate of Western Sahara [0.03%]
资源地缘政治：冷战技术、全球肥料以及西撒哈拉的未来
Lino Camprubí
Lino Camprubí
When, after years of geological and geophysical exploration, a phosphate mine was discovered at Bu-Craa in 1964, Western Sahara received renewed geopolitical attention. Several countries competing for the control of the world fertilizer mar...
Mechanizing the Merc: The Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Rise of High-Frequency Trading [0.03%]
机械化谷物市场：芝加哥商业交易所与高频交易的崛起
Donald MacKenzie
Donald MacKenzie
This article investigates one important strand in the evolution of today's high-frequency trading or HFT (the fast, automated trading of large numbers of financial securities). That strand is the history of the automation of trading on what...
Americanization Through Innovation: Polish American Women, Domestic Appliances, and the Household Revolution Debate, 1900-40 [0.03%]
创新促同化：波兰裔美国妇女、家用电器及家庭革命辩论（1900—1940）
For Polish-American women, household appliances-promoted in Polish-language magazines in the United States in 1930s-were not merely labor-saving tools, but symbols of Americanization and social mobility. Revisiting Ruth Schwartz Cowan's arg...