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Showing papers in "Technology and Culture in 1983"




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229 citations


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TL;DR: This article explored the history of work, workers, and working class culture in America from the founding of the first colonies to the beginning of the twentieth century, focusing on how working men and women constantly strived to make sense of the profound socioeconomic and technological changes taking place in this period.
Abstract: This course will explore the history of work, workers, and working class culture in America from the founding of the first colonies to the beginning of the twentieth century. We will focus on how working men and women constantly strived to make sense of the profound socioeconomic and technological changes taking place in this period. We will discuss a wide variety of issues including: workers' organizations and unions, radicalism and working class political culture, the effects of immigration and urbanization on American workers, and the significance of race and gender on workers' solidarity.

164 citations





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107 citations






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TL;DR: In this article, a new book about trade and technology in soviet western relations to read is presented, which can be found in the library of the University of Warsaw in the Czech Republic.
Abstract: Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What about now? Do you still love reading? Is reading only for you who have obligation? Absolutely not! We here offer you a new book enPDFd trade and technology in soviet western relations to read.


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TL;DR: The relationship between scientific and technological knowledge has been investigated in a wide range of areas, including the creation of technological knowledge in engineering science through parameter variation and the application of technologically relevant concepts such as control volume theory as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: An increasingly central concern among historians of technology is the nature of technological knowledge as distinct both from science and from the design of specific artifacts. This concern is reflected in diverse scholarship addressing such issues as the relationships among scientific investigation, technological research, and the process of innovation;1 the creation of technological knowledge in engineering science through such specifically technological methodologies as parameter variation and through the application of technologically relevant concepts such as control-volume theory;2 and the sociological and epistemological relationship between scientific and technological knowledge.3 At the same time, recent research by Edwin T. Layton, Norman Smith, Louis Hunter, and Terry Reynolds has provided basic


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TL;DR: Somerville and Brougham as mentioned in this paper described the first trip to Italy and the second trip to France, and the third trip to the United States of America, 1837-39.
Abstract: 1. Scottish Beginnings.- 2. London Beginnings.- 3. The First Trip Abroad.- 1. Paris and its Scientific Society, 1817.- 2. Switzerland.- 3. Italy.- 4. The Return.- 4. In the Mainstream of London Science.- 1. Scientific Training in the 1820s.- 2. Mary Somerville's Apprenticeship.- 3. The First Experimental Paper.- 4. Brougham's Commission.- 5. The Mechanism of the Heavens.- 1. The Atmosphere of 1830.- 2. Creation and Publication.- 3. Reception.- 6. The Second Stay Abroad.- 1. Paris, 1832.- 2. Mary Somerville and French Science, 1832-33.- 3. Foreign Visitors, English Correspondence.- 7. On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences.- 1. The Physical Sciences, 1830-33.- 2. The Final Revision.- 3. Publication and Review.- 4. New Honours and a New Edition.- 5. Mary Somerville and a Few Scientific Women.- 8. The Civil List and Mary Somerville.- 9. 'The Comet', an Experiment and a Third Edition.- 10. The Last London Years.- 1. A New Pattern of Existence, 1836.- 2. The Fourth Edition of the Connexion of the Sciences.- 3. A Scientific Intermediary.- 11. Outside the Mainstream of Science.- 1. Italy, 1838-40.- 2. And After ...- A Guide to Notes and Citations.- Notes.


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TL;DR: The American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution began at the same time, and ever since the development of America and development of technology have proceeded in tandem, each dependent on and contributing to the other.
Abstract: The American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution began at the same time, and ever since the development of America and the development of technology have proceeded in tandem, each dependent on and contributing to the other. From the beginning until well into the twentieth century, technical innovation was largely the work of the rugged individualists who have since entered the pantheon of American folklore: their names, coupled with the enterprises they opened up in the chapter titles below, are still for the most part familiar to American readers.Contents: "The Artisan during America's Wooden Age, " Brooke Hindle; "Thomas Jefferson and a Democratic Technology, " Hugo A. Meier; "Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the Transfer of Technology, " Darwin H. Stapleton; "Eli Whitney and the American System of Manufacturing, " Merritt Roe Smith; "Thomas P. Jones and the Evolution of Technical Education, " Bruce Sinclair; "Cyrus Hall McCormick and the Mechanization of Agriculture, " Carroll W. Pursell, Jr.; "James Buchanan Eads and the Engineer as Entrepreneur, " John A. Kouwenhoven; "James B. Francis and the Rise of Scientific Technology, " Edwin T. Layton, Jr.; "Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, " Robert V. Bruce; "Thomas Alva Edison and the Rise of Electricity, " Thomas Parke Hughes; "George Eastman and the Coming of Industrial Research, " Reese V. Jenkins; "Ellen Swallow Richards: Technology and Women, " Ruth Schwartz Cowan; "Gifford Pinchot and the Conservation Movement, " Samuel P. Hays; " Henry Ford and the Triumph of the Automobile, " James J. Flink; "Charles A. Lindbergh: His Flight and the American Ideal, " John William Ward; "Keaton and Chaplin: The Silent Film's Response to Technology, " George Basalla; "Morris L. Cooke and Energy for America, " Jean Christie; "Enrico Fermi and the Development of Nuclear Power, " Lawrence Badash; "Robert H. Goddard and the Origins of Space Flight, " Barton C. Hacker.The book was originally published in 1979 in the Voice of America Forum Series for distribution outside the United States. This MIT Press edition contains a new preface by the editor.







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TL;DR: An industrial researcher of tremendous capability and diverse interests, Irving Langmuir was at once a chemist, physicist, engineer, and employee of the General Electric Company (GE) for over forty years as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: An industrial researcher of tremendous capability and diverse interests, Irving Langmuir was at once a chemist, physicist, engineer, and employee of the General Electric Company (GE) for over forty years. He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry (1932) and was awarded sixty-three U.S. patents, some of considerable value. Not surprisingly, understanding Langmuir's work presents a problem to those who approach his career equipped with preconceptions about the roles of scientists and engineers in industry. Physicist Percy Bridgman recognized this dilemma in his introduction to Langmuir's collected works: "It is not easy to separate Langmuir's work into physical, chemical, and engineering components, but all three are intertwined with an intimacy not often exhibited in the work of other scientists."1 Bridgman thought of Langmuir as a "scientist," not as an "engineer" or, more broadly, an "industrial researcher." Yet the term "scientist" alone does not clearly describe Langmuir, nor would it fit some of the other excellent American industrial researchers of the


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TL;DR: A review of spatial abilities in teaching and learning mathematics education can be found in this article, with a focus on the Papua New Guinea experience and cultural and social aspects of mathematics education.
Abstract: Developing a Festschrift with a Difference.- In Conversation with Alan Bishop.- Teacher Decision Making.- Decision-Making, the Intervening Variable.- Teachers' Decision Making: from Alan J. Bishop to Today.- Spatial Abilities, Visualization, and Geometry.- Spatial Abilities and Mathematics Education - A Review.- Spatial Abilities Research as a Foundation for Visualization in Teaching and Learning Mathematics.- Spatial Abilities, Mathematics, Culture, and the Papua New Guinea Experience.- Cultural and Social Aspects.- Visualising and Mathematics in a Pre-Technological Culture.- Cultural and Social Aspects of Mathematics Education: Responding to Bishop's Challenge.- Chinese Culture, Islamic Culture, and Mathematics Education.- Social and Political Aspects.- Mathematical Power to the People.- Mathematical Power as Political Power - The Politics of Mathematics Education.- Teachers and Research.- Research, Effectiveness, and the Practitioners' World.- Practicing Research and Researching Practice.- Reflexivity, Effectiveness, and the Interaction of Researcher and Practitioner Worlds.- Values.- Mathematics Teaching and Values Education - An Intersection in Need of Research.- Valuing Values in Mathematics Education.


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TL;DR: The relationship between classical music and electronic technology was discussed in this paper, where the authors reveal Bell Laboratories' generally unrecognized role in the development of high-fidelity sound reproduction and sheds light on the process of innovation for many modern technologies.
Abstract: performing artist and an eminent group of research scientists and engineers, the relationship is of considerable intrinsic interest. It also reveals Bell Laboratories' generally unrecognized role in the development of high-fidelity sound reproduction and sheds light on the process of innovation for many modern technologies. Finally, it marks an aesthetic turning point in the relationship between classical music and electronic technology.