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History of technology. Vol. 28, 2008 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
Ã2008.
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| Colección: | History of Technology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Contributors; Editorial; Notes for Contributors; Special Issue: ''By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electrical Technologies''; Introduction; IPv6: Standards Controversies around the Next-Generation Internet; Standardization across the Boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-38; Morality, Locality and ''Standardization'' in the Work of British Consulting Electrical Engineers, 1880-1914; Perception, Standardization and Closure: The Case of Artificial Illumination.
- Standards and Compatibility: The Rise of the PC Computing PlatformBasicode: Co-Producing a Microcomputer Esperanto; Battery Birds, ''Stimulighting'' and ''Twilighting'': The Ecology of Standardized Poultry Technology; Contents of Former Volumes.