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Technology and Culture 1999 July The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher
Technology and Culture 1999 July Vol.40 #3
Pages 455 - 722
ARTICLES
455When Computers Were Women I JENNIFER S. LIGHT
484Ski-Dogs, Pol-Cats, and the Mechanization of Winter: The Development of Recreational Snowmobiling in North America I LEONARD S. REICH
517System in the South: John W. Mallet, Josiah Gorgas, and Uniform Production at the Confederate Ordnance Department I STEVEN G. COLLINS
545Mulholland Highway and the Engineering Culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s I MATTHEW W. ROTH
RESEARCH NOTE
576Longbow and Hackbutt: Weapons Technology and Technology Transfer in Early Modern England I GERVASE PHILLIPS
ON THE COVER
594Kill Devil Hills, 17 December 1903 I Tom D. CROUCH
REVIEW ESSAY
599A History of Modern European Technology: The Propylaen Technikgeschichte I MICHAEL ALLEN
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
607No Mere Technicalities: How Things Work and Why It Matters I ROBERT C. POST
AWARDS
623The Dexter Prize
624The Abbott Payson Usher Prize
625The Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize
626The Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize
627The IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History
628The Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
630The Leonardo da Vinci Medal
ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES
638The Baltimore Meeting, 15-18 October 1998
BOOK REVIEWS
648Merritt Roe Smith and Gregory Clancey, eds., Major Problems in the History of American Technology I STEPHEN H. CUTCLIFFE
650Jeremy Black, Maps and Politics I JOSEF W. KONVITZ
652Steven Vogel, Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People I FREDERICK ALLEN
654Lu Ann De Cunzo and Bernard L. Herman, eds., Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture I LAURIE A. WILKIE
655Boel Berner, ed., Gendered Practices: Feminist Studies of Technology and Society I REBECCA HERZIG
657Lynn T. Courtenay, ed., The Engineering of Medieval Cathedrals I RICHARD A. SUNDT
659Elizabeth Bradford Smith and Michael Wolfe, eds., Technology and Resource Use in Medieval Europe I JOHN MUENDEL
660Chandra Mukerji, Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles I CLAUDIA LAZZARO
662James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826 I C. M. HARRIS
664Jane Kate Leonard, Controlling from Afar: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1924-1926 I MARK ELVIN
666John F. Stover, American Railroads I JON R. HUIBREGTSE
667Stephan Deutinger, Bayerns Weg zur Eisenbahn: Joseph von Baader and die Friihzeit der Eisenbahn in Bayern, 1800 bis 1835 I FREDERICK C. GAMST
669James Brophy, Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 1830-1870I RAYMOND STOKES
671Erik Baark, Lightning Wires: The Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860-1890I J. ROBERT SELMAN
673Nasir Tyabji, Colonialism, Chemical Technology, and Industry in Southern India, 1880-1937I TARA SETHIA
675Alan Dye, Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production: Technology and the Economics of the Sugar Central, 1899-1929 I ALEJANDRO GARCIA ALVAREZ
677Lindy Biggs, The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and
Work in America's Age of Mass Production I BRUCE E. SEELY
679Gary Bryan Magee, Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry: Labour, Capital, and Technology in Britain and America, 1860-1914I RICHARD L. HILLS
681Jeffrey L. Cruikshank and David B. Sicilia, The Engine That Could: 75 Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company I ALBERT CHURELLA
683Louis Galambos and Jane Eliot Sewell, Networks of Innovation:
Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 I W BERNARD CARLSON
685G. Pascal Zachary, Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century I Ross BASSETT
687Crawford MacKeand, Sparks and Flames: Ignition in Engines -An Historical Approach I RAY E. HOOLEY
688John D. Anderson Jr., A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines I ROGER D. LAUNIUS
690Eric Rieth, Technologies, Ideologies, Pratiques: Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances 13, no. 1 (1998) I LARRIE D. FERREIRO
692Kenneth Poolman, The Winning Edge: Naval Technology in Action, 1939-1945 I RUSSELL I. FRIES
694Armand Mattelart, The Invention of
Communication I ARISTOTLE TYMPAS
696Thomas C. Jepsen, Ma Kiley: The Life of a Railroad Telegrapher I JANET F. DAVIDSON
697William S. Rodner, J.M. W. Turner: Romantic Painter of the Industrial Revolution and Betsy Fahlman, John Ferguson Weir: The Labor of Art I JOHN E KASSON
701Patrick Maynard, The Engine of Visualization: Thinking Through Photography I JOANNE LUKITSH
702Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography I PATRICIA JOHNSTON
705Patricia Johnston, Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography I REGINA LEE BLASZCZYK
707Leo Charney and Vanessa R. Schwartz, eds., Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life I GEORGE POTAMIANOS
709Paul Theberge, Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/ Consuming Technology I SUSAN SCHMIDT HORNING
711Toru Mitsui and Shushei Hosokawa, eds., Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing I EDWARD JAY PERSHEY
713Sarah Stage and Virginia B. Vincenti, eds., Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession I JANET GOLDEN
715James L. Cooper, Artistry and Ingenuity in Artificial Stone:
Indiana's Concrete Bridges, 1900-1942 I STEVEN A. WALTON
716Keith Wailoo, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century America I MELBOURNE TAPPER
719Marc Berg, Rationalizing Medical Work: Decision-Support Techniques and Medical Practices I MARCIA L. MELDRUM
720Daniel C. Dennett, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds I STUART BENNETT
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