History of technology. Volume twenty-eighth, 2008 / edited by Ian Inkster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inkster, Ian, editor.

Series:

History of Technology

History of technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--History.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

History of technology. Volume 28

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into 'everyday life'. Includes the Special Issue By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: does standardization make things standard? / James Sumner and Graeme Gooday

Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914 / Efstathios Arapostathis

Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination / Chris Otter

Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938 / Andrew L. Russell

Battery birds, 'stimulighting' and 'twilighting': the ecology of standardized poultry technology / Karen Sayer

Basicode: co-producing a microcomputer Esperanto / Frank Veraart

Standards and compatibility: the rise of the PC platform / James Sumner

IPv6: a history of the next-generation Internet / Laura DeNardis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612874475

9781350019102

1350019100

9781282874473

1282874470

9781441141217

1441141219

OCLC:

682540677