History of Technology Volume 28: Special Issue: By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr - Hardcover

Ian Inkster

 
9780826438751: History of Technology Volume 28: Special Issue: By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 082643875X ISBN 13: 9780826438751
Publisher: Continuum, 2009

Synopsis

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""

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About the Author

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University. He has broad research interests across the history of industrialisation and technological change, and in global history.

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Publisher
Continuum
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
082643875X
ISBN 13 
9780826438751
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192
Editor
Ian Inkster