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Acknowledgements
This special issue emerged from a symposium that we co-organized at the International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine in July 2013 in Manchester, UK. We are very grateful to the two commentators, Graeme Gooday and Jon Agar, for their insightful comments as well as to our authors for working with us to create this special issue. Many thanks also to David Hochfelder for his very useful suggestions and to Martin Collins for his excellent editing.
Notes
1. Weaver, Inside the Weird World of Cryonics.
2. Bijker et al., The Social Construction of Technological Systems; Moon, Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention.
3. Marx, “Technology”; Schatzberg, “Technik Comes to America”.
4. Edgerton, “Innovation, Technology, or History”.
5. Edgerton, “From Innovation to Use”; Edgerton, The Shock of the Old.
6. Winner, “Upon Opening the Blackbox and Finding it Empty,” 370.
7. Müller, “Beyond the Means of 99 Percent of the Population”. See also Hochfelder, The Telegraph in America; John, “Letters, Telegrams, News”.
8. The history of consumption has become an important field. See, for example, Trentmann, Empire of Things.
9. Turschwell, Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking; Goody, Technology, Literature, and Culture; Dickens, “On an Amateur Beat”; Twain, “Mental Telegraphy”; Poole, “Henry James and the Mobile Phone”.
10. On technology and the subaltern see Headrick, “A Double-Edged Sword”.
11. Cave, “Is Predicting the Future Futile or Necessary?”.
12. Krige and Wang, “Nation, Knowledge, and Imagined Futures”.
13. Ross, The Industries of the Future; Häggström Here Be Dragons; Batt, Visions of the Future.
14. Pursell, “Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production”; Hård and Jamison, Hubris and Hybrids; Jamison, A Hybrid Imagination.
15. Müller and Tworek, “The Telegraph and the Bank”; Müller-Pohl, “By Atlantic Telegraph”.
16. John, Network Nation.
17. Ahvenainen, “The Role of Telegraphs”.
18. Boyd-Barrett and Rantanen, The Globalization of News. Tworek, “Magic Connections”.
19. Müller, “Beyond the Means of 99 Percent of the Population”.
20. Hughes, Networks of Power; Mayntz and Hughes, The Development of Large Technical Systems; Oudshoorn and Pinch, “How Users Matter”; Edgerton, “From Innovation to Use”; MacKenzie and Wajcman, The Social Shaping of Technology. On critique of the linear model see the contributions by Glen Asner and David Edgerton in Grandin, Wormbs and Widmalm, The Science-Industry Nexus.
21. Forman, “The Primacy of Science in Modernity”.
22. Latour and Woolgar, Laboratory life; Woolgar, “The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science”; Dietz, Technische Intelligenz und ‘Kulturfaktor Technik’. Mazlish, The Fourth Disconitunity.
23. Edgerton, “From Innovation to Use: Ten Ecclectic Theses”.
24. Fallan, Design History, 7.
25. Adamson et al., Global Design History.
26. Dilnot, “The State of Design History”; Dilnot, “The State of Design History Part II”; Clark and Brody, “The Current State of Design History”.
27. Winner, “Upon Opening the Blackbox and Finding it Empty”. Similar critique was also voiced by Russell, “The Social Construction of Artefacts”.
28. Ross, The Industries of the Future; Häggström Here Be Dragons; Batt, Visions of the Future.
29. Giddens, “Runaway World”; similarly Kossellek, Modernity and the Planes of Historicity.
30. Luhmann, Soziologie des Risikos.
31. Engel, “Buying Time”.
32. Starr, The Creation of the Media.
33. Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New.
34. Eisenstadt, Multiple Modernities.
35. Egan and Betts, Thomas Alva Edison, 67–70; Engineering and Technology History Wiki, Franklin Pope, http://ethw.org/Franklin_Pope Accessed July 24, 2015; Pederson and Carlat, Thomas Edison, 38; Elihu Thompson: Carlson, Innovation as a Social Process.
36. Hughes, American Genesis.
37. Collins, “The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge”.
38. On the relation of science and technology see, Forman, “The Primacy of Science in Modernity”.
39. Winner, “Upon Opening the Blackbox and Finding it Empty,” 370.
40. http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/news/features/feature37, Accessed July 29, 2015.
41. http://www.tensionsofeurope.eu/ e.g. Lagendijk, Electrifying Europe; Lommers, Europe – On Air; Schipper and Schot, “Infrastructural Europeanism”; Schot and Lagendijk, “Technocratic Internationalism”.
42. Simone M. Müller, Hazardous Travels. Ghost Acres and the Global Waste Economy. Book project.
43. Wells, The Wheels of Chance; Wells, The War of the Worlds; Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau.
44. Bonnicksen, Crafting a Cloning Policy.
45. Müller, “Beyond the Means of 99 Percent of the Population”.
46. Müller and Tworek, “The Telegraph and the Bank,” 263–4.
47. Finn and Yang, Communications under the Seas; Headrick, The Invisible Weapon; Headrick and Griset, “Submarine Telegraph Cables”; Hills, The Struggle for Control; John, Network Nation; Kennedy, “Imperial Cable Communications and Strategy”; Winseck and Pike, Communication and Empire; For a historiographical overview, see Hampf and Müller-Pohl, “Global Communication Electric,” 7–34.
48. Wenzlhuemer, “The Dematerialization of Telecommunication”; Wenzlhuemer, Connecting the Nineteenth-Century World.
49. Balbi, Network Neutrality; Laborie, L’Europe mise en réseaux.
50. Finn, “Submarine Telegraphy”; Noakes, “Industrial Research at the Eastern Telegraph Company”.
51. Laborie, “Global Commerce in Small Boxes”; Shulman, “Ben Franklin’s Ghost”.
52. Kaukiainen, “Shrinking the World”.
53. Arapostathis and Gooday, Patently Contestable.
54. Balbi and Natale, “The Double Birth of Wireless”; Schipper, “Access for All”.
55. Hochfelder, The Telegraph in America.