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October 2022, Volume 63, No. 4
On the Cover
Working in the Electronic Garden: The Visual Rhetoric of Herman Miller's Action Office | Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
Debate
Systemic and Epistemic Racism in the History of Technology | Chandra Bhimull, Gabrielle Hecht, Edward Jones-Imhotep, C. Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Lisa Nakamura, and Asif Siddiqi
Socializing the Technosphere | Chris Otter
Research Articles
Crafted for Mass Production: Imported Spinning Machinery on the Shop Floor, China, 1910s–1920s | Yuan Yi
Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body | Richard Hornsey
Designing for Maintenance: Plant Care Technology in the Office | Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
Beautiful Sounds, Beautiful Life: Cultivating Musical Listening through Hearing Aids in 1950s Japan | Frank Mondelli
Neither Nation nor Empire: Situating Shanghai Radio in a Global Technological Moment, 1922–25 | John Alekna
Manning the Torpedo Boats: How Gendered Insecurities Shaped Naval War in the United States and Britain, 1860–1900 | Tommy Jamison
Public History
Going Digital: The Research Library and the Pandemic | Benjamin Gross and Allison Marsh
Research in the Time of COVID: Virtual Fellowships at the Linda Hall Library | Benjamin Gross
Fellows Online: The User Experience | Interviews by Allison Marsh
Essay
Review of Twenty-Six Volumes of History of Science and Technology in China | Xing Huang and Xiaowu Guan
Book Reviews
Review of Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin by Maya K. Peterson | Marianne Kamp
Review of In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism by J. P. Daughton | Friedrich N. Ammermann
Review of The Panama Railroad by Peter Pyne | Michael K. Bess
Review of A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen: Material Remains and Textual Foundations by Ingrid Hehmeyer | Jethron Ayumbah Akallah
Review of Une histoire politique du canal de Göta: Technique, infrastructure et pouvoirs en Europe du Nord (années 1790–1832) [A political history of Göta Canal: Technology, infrastructure and power in northern Europe (1790–1832)] by Thomas Gauchet | Björn Hasselgren
Review of Cesty a dial'nice na Slovensku v medzivojnovom období [Roads and highways in Slovakia during the interwar period] by Michal Ďurčo | Jan Stemberk
Review of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving by Peter Norton | Brian Ladd
Review of Silver Veins, Dusty Lungs: Mining, Water, and Public Health in Zacatecas, 1835–1946 by Rocio Gomez | Saul Guerrero
Review of Timber, Sail, and Rail: An Archaeology of Industry, Immigration, and the Loma Prieta Mill by Marco G. Meniketti | Erik Loomis
Review of Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Townby Jonathan Parry | Smritikumar Sarkar
Review of Enduring Change: The Labor and Social History of One Third-Front Industrial Complex in China from the 1960s to the Presentby Ju Li | Valeria Zanier
Review of Cuba's Digital Revolution: Citizen Innovation and State Policyed. by Ted A. Henken and Sara Garcia Santamaria | Jennifer M. Lozano
Review of Hacked Transmissions: Technology and Connective Activism in Italy by Alessandra Renzi | Stefania Milan
Review of Homebrew Gaming and the Beginnings of Vernacular Digitality by Melanie Swalwell | Anne Ladyem McDivitt
Review of Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America by Michael Z. Newman | Casey O’Donnell
Review of The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons | James Inglis
Review of Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931–2002 by Marissa J. Moorman | Vincent Kuitenbrouwer
Review of The Cinema in Flux: The Evolution of Motion Picture Technology from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Era by Lenny Lipton | Sabrina Negri
Review of Chinatown Film Culture: The Appearance of Cinema in San Francisco's Chinese Neighborhood by Kim K. Fahlstedt | Xin Peng
Review of Photography's Materialities: Transatlantic Photographic Practices over the Long Nineteenth Century ed. by Geoff Bender and Rasmus R. Simonsen | Elisa DeCourcy
Review of Samuel Beckett and Technology ed. by Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, and Mark Nixon
| Lois Oppenheim
Review of Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana I: Desde los orígenes hasta la modernidad [A history of Latin American science fiction: From its origins to modernity] ed. by Teresa López-Pellisa and Silvia G. Kurlat Ares | David S. Dalton
Review of Mapping AIDS: Visual Histories of an Enduring Epidemic by Lukas Engelmann | Janet Greenlees
Review of Radiation Evangelists: Technology, Therapy and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century by Jeffrey Womack | Maria Rentetzi
Review of The Lure of the Beach: A Global History by Robert C. Ritchie | Douglas Booth
Review of Camp Century: The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base under the Greenland Ice by Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen | Antoine Bousquet
Review of La Puissance du vent: Des moulins à vent aux éoliennes modernes [The power of the wind: From windmills to modern wind turbines] by Philippe Bruyerre | Elisa Grandi
Review of The Green Revolution in the Global South: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences by R. Douglas Hurt | Corinna R. Unger
Review of On an Empty Stomach: Two Hundred Years of Hunger Relief by Tom Scott-Smith | Ralf Futselaar
Review of The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food by Jonathan Rees | Florence Hachez-Leroy
Review of Atomic Americans: Citizens in a Nuclear State by Sarah E. Robey | William M. Knoblauch
Review of A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947–1969: Autarky and Foreign Aid by William A. T. Logan | Marc Reyes
Review of The Doomsday Clock at 75 ed. by Robert K. Elder and J. C. Gabel | Casper Sylvest
Review of Autarchia e multinazionali: Casi di imprese estere del settore chimico in Italia durante il Fascismo [Autarky and multinationals: Cases of foreign companies in Italy's chemical sector during Fascism] ed. by Marco Bertilorenzi | Franco Calascibetta
Review of Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design ed. by Bill Addis | David F. Channell
Review of Les artilleurs et la monarchie hispanique (1560–1610): Guerres, savoirs techniques, État [Artillerymen and the Hispanic monarchy (1560–1610): Wars, technical knowledge, and the State] by Brice Cossart | Emmanuel de Crouy-Chanel
Review of Limiting Outer Space: Astroculture After Apollo ed. by Alexander C. T. Geppert, and: Militarizing Outer Space: Astroculture, Dystopia and the Cold War ed. by Alexander C. T. Geppert, Daniel Brandau, and Tilmann Siebeneichner | Thomas Ellis
Review of Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire ed. by Martina Siebert, Kai Jun Chen, and Dorothy Ko | Susan Naquin
Review of Warmes Wasser – Weiße Ware: Energiewende im Badezimmer, 1880–1939 [Warm water – White goods: Energy transition in the bathroom, 1880–1939] by Nina Lorkowski | Christian Stadelmann
Indices
Author Index Vol. 63 (2002)
Title Index Vol. 63 (2022)