| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 171 pages). |
| Series |
History of Technology |
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History of Technology.
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
The Contributors; Editorial; Notes for Contributors; Special Issue: ''By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electrical Technologies''; Introduction; IPv6: Standards Controversies around the Next-Generation Internet; Standardization across the Boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-38; Morality, Locality and ''Standardization'' in the Work of British Consulting Electrical Engineers, 1880-1914; Perception, Standardization and Closure: The Case of Artificial Illumination. |
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Standards and Compatibility: The Rise of the PC Computing PlatformBasicode: Co-Producing a Microcomputer Esperanto; Battery Birds, ''Stimulighting'' and ''Twilighting'': The Ecology of Standardized Poultry Technology; Contents of Former Volumes. |
| Summary |
Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explor. |
| Subject |
Technology -- History.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- General.
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Technology. (OCoLC)fst01145078
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Technology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01145202
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Inkster, Ian.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: History of technology. Vol. 28, 2008. London : Continuum, 2008 9780826438751 (OCoLC)434303391 |
| ISBN |
9781441141217 (electronic bk.) |
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1441141219 (electronic bk.) |
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