Isbn: 9780826438751 - History of Technology Volume 28: Special Issue: by Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr (13 results)

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Condition: New. Focuses on morality, locality and standardization in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. This title deals with the history of technical discovery and change. It explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life -.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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" Focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. This title deals with the history of technical discovery and change. It explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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" Focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. This title deals with the history of technical discovery and change. It explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. History of Technology Volume 28 | Special Issue: By Whose Standards? Standardization, Stability and Uniformity in the History of Information and Electr | Ian Inkster (u. a.) | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2009 | Continnuum-3PL | EAN 9780826438751 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seven case studies in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century histories of information and electrical technologies, addressing tensions between standardizing and localist tendencies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.>.…