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A world-leading journal for research on technology in history. Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Joined May 2017
Want to be the next Editor of @HistAndTech? Weโre currently recruiting ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ https://t.co/tONT9FL8YA
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Honoured to present my research work at the International Congress of History of Science & Technology in Dunedin, New Zealand! Engaging with global scholars & exchanging ideas in this inspiring setting is a true privilege. #ICHST #27ICHST #HistoryofScienceTechnology
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My new article, "Wild Horses," is now out in @AnnalsOfScience! It argues that the Manchu conquest of Chinaโas presented to Europeans by Martino Martiniโshaped dialectical theories of the rise and fall of empires, and of the role of horses therein ๐ https://t.co/OqcRdHhMsJ
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In 1644, the Manchus, a Tungusic population from northeast Asia, conquered Ming China, establishing the Qing Empire. Four years later, Crimean Tartar horsemen joined a major uprising against the Po...
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From petroleum to power sources: Big Oil and the technopolitics of energy conversion @HistAndTech #Oil #Energy #Technology
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This paper explores spillover into advanced energy conversion technologies as an oil industry response to US energy and environmental policies from the last third of the twentieth century. These po...
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Hegemony, co-production and the American Empire: essays in honor of John Krige https://t.co/Lw85P449kU
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Geoscience spillover: Gunnar Bรถรฐvarsson and the adoption of petroleum technologies in Icelandโs geothermal industry, 1940sโ1970s
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During the twentieth century, Iceland became a leader in geothermal energy use, with hot water and steam providing for the heating of 9 out of 10ย houses and almost one-third of the electricity supp...
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ถ๐น ๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ: ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ถ๐น ๐ถ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป๐ป๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ต๐ถ๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ Author: @ccmmody
#Energy #Climate #Oil #Nuclear #History #Technology
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Innovation studies scholars use the concept of โspilloversโ to explain how ideas and people move among firms and industries and how regions form industrial clusters. Historians of technology use di...
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Distinctive landmarks in the history of computing and engineering: the past, the present, and the future @NewcomenSoc @tandfSTEM #History #Computing
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๐ง๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฐ: โPrudence, Foresight, Courage, Oeconomyโ: glass beehives and English society, 1650โ1680 Author: Marlis Hinckley @JHU_History @JohnsHopkins @RoutledgeHist @tandfSTEM
https://t.co/JtNvrzW67H
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During the English Civil War and subsequent Restoration, beekeeping provided a ready set of moral examples for those seeking answers about the โnaturalโ structure of society. The practice itself al...
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We are recruiting for a Co-Editor! Details below: https://t.co/tONT9FLGO8
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The dangers of sharing knowledge with friends: the FSX Controversy and the use of US export controls against Japan in the 1980s and 1990s
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This article places the USโJapanese controversy over the co-development of the FSX jet fighter in the context of US debates about โeconomic securityโ. During the 1980s, this concept became the wide...
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New article online + open access! Swimming with the coelacanth: the UK and export controls of technology and knowledge in the Cold War Author = @jon_agar
#technology #history #ColdWar #UK #exports
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Contesting American hegemony: attacks to US scientific initiatives in Cold War Europe (and means to secretly defy these challenges)
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This article focuses on the French communist scientistsโ attack, executed in 1953, on US initiatives for the promotion of science in Europe. Collated in the anonymous booklet Un plan U.S.A. de main...
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Of comets and cosmology in Antonino Saliba's Nuova Figura di tutte le cose of 1582 https://t.co/Ile7cRcAIw
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๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ @NewcomenSoc #shipworm #History #Shipping #Technology @tandfSTEM @RoutledgeHist
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The promises and pitfalls of precision: random and systematic error in physical geodesy, c. 1800โ1910 https://t.co/509hmCvMQC
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While digging into the history of overhead wires, Ph.D. student Gloria Calhoun was struck by the way people created narratives around telegraph and telephone infrastructures, and how much they resembled the competing narratives around #AI today. https://t.co/ayTSFSET7W
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This article of mine is fresh off the press today! Computation, Data and AI in Anthropocene History, with a review nod to Jรผrgen Rennโs book Evolution of Knowledge @MPI_GEA @MPIWG @KTHEnvHumsLab @anthrocommons
https://t.co/6tF9qbVYeD
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This essay engages with recent scholarship on the epistemology of AI, data and automation, to assert how these practices are becoming increasingly central both to the projects of monitoring and of ...
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What an accomplishment! Mary Pickard (Polly) Winsor, IHPST Professor Emerita, had one of the most-read articles in the prestigious @AnnalsOfScience in 2023. Good news for you too: it is #OpenAccess #IHPSTResearch #UofTResearch #AcademicExcellence #Darwin
https://t.co/0cDXHVbY0z
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Now Online: History and Technology, Volume 39, Issue 1 (2023) https://t.co/jrrHIst0At
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Volume 39, Issue 1 of History and Technology
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