The transformation of acoustics into electro-acoustics, a field at the intersection of science and technology, guided by electrical engineering, industry, and the military.At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science o...Lasīt vairāk
How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawingsamong them Leonardo da Vincis...Lasīt vairāk
The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles.Electric cars were once as numerous as internal co...Lasīt vairāk
How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships.In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure t...Lasīt vairāk
How data gathered from national conscriptions in preWorld War I Europe influenced understandings of population fitness and redefined society as a collective body.In preWorld War I Europe, individual fitness was increasingly related...Lasīt vairāk
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied genealogy of CCR5 -- intellectual property, natural selection, Big...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Nov-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262035262)
At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically trained ear was the ultimate reference. Just a few decades into the twentieth century, acoustics had undergone a transform...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jul-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262034777)
In the 1950s and the 1960s, U.S. administrations were determined to prevent Western European countries from developing independent national nuclear weapons programs. To do so, the United States attempted to use its te...Lasīt vairāk
Staffan Müller-Wille, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Christina Brandt, Staffan Müller-Wille, Christina Brandt, Ulrike Vedder, Diane B. Paul, Hamish G. Spencer, Theodore M. Porter, Veronika Lipphardt...
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jul-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262034432)
Investigations of how the understanding of heredity developed in scientific, medical, agro-industrial, and political contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Apr-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262028509)
During World War II, the Allied military forces faced severe problems integrating equipment, tactics, and logistics into successful combat operations. To help confront these problems, scientists and engineers developed new means of studying which...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Feb-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262028660)
In The Genealogy of a Gene, Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied "genealogy" of CCR5 -- intellectual property, natural selec...Lasīt vairāk
Naomi Oreskes, Benjamin Wilson, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell, Asif Siddiqi, John Krige, Erik Conway...
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262027953)
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to nat...Lasīt vairāk
Naomi Oreskes, Benjamin Wilson, John Krige, Naomi Oreskes, Angela N. H. Creager, Sigrid Schmalzer, Matthew Shindell, Asif Siddiqi, John Krige, Erik Conway...
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
The Cold War period saw a dramatic expansion of state-funded science and technology research. Government and military patronage shaped Cold War technoscientific practices, imposing methods that were project oriented, team based, and subject to nat...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262019507)
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Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818--1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocat...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Nov-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262018388)
In the middle of the nineteenth century, German and Austrian concertgoers began to hear new rhythms and harmonies as non-Western musical ensembles began to make their way to European cities and classical music introduced new compositional trends....Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Mar-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262016759)
In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the originsof the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network.Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network,...Lasīt vairāk
For much of the first half of the twentieth century, meteorology was more art thanscience, dependent on an individual forecasters lifetime of local experience. In Weatherby the Numbers, Kristine Harper tells the story of the transformation...Lasīt vairāk
