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Table of Contents

Cover Essay: How to Interpret Postcards

Lynn Spigel
pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951048
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Roundtable: Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change

Erik van der Vleuten, Evelien de Hoop, Jonas van der Straeten, Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Animesh Chatterjee, Matthias Heymann, Prakash Kumar
pp. 11-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951049
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Telehospitality

Lynn Spigel
pp. 39-70
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951050
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The Safari and the Screen: How Visual Technologies Shaped Italian Colonial Narratives

Beatrice Falcucci, Gianmarco Mancosu
pp. 71-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951051
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The Waterwheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting, and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice

David Gentilcore
pp. 107-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951052
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Dynamics of Doubt: How ASHRAE Engineers Became Ozone Skeptics, 1974–89

Abeer Saha
pp. 135-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951053
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Americanization Through Innovation: Polish American Women, Domestic Appliances, and the Household Revolution Debate, 1900–40

Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska
pp. 161-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951054
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The Guild and the Laboratory: Shifting Sensory Regimes at Stockholms Bryggerier in the Early Twentieth Century

Ingemar Pettersson, Daniel Normark
pp. 185-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951055
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Delivering Airpower: How Innovation in Wartime Foreshadowed Modern Supply Chain Strategies

Peter Dye
pp. 209-235
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951056
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Silver "Thieves," Tin Barons, and Conquistadors: Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia by Mary Van Buren (review)

Kris Lane
pp. 236-238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951057
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Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context ed. by Enrique R. Lamadrid and José A. Rivera (review)

Michael Holleran
pp. 238-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951058
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Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan by Ijlal Naqvi (review)

Priyanka Guha Roy
pp. 240-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951059
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Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (review)

Emily Brownell
pp. 241-243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951060
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Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science by Kassandra J. Miller (review)

Irene Calà
pp. 243-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951061
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Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, Gender and Sex ed. by Maria Gerolemou and Giulia Maria Chesi (review)

Colin Webster
pp. 245-246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951062
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Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 by Elizabeth O'Brien (review)

Jethro Hernández Berrones
pp. 247-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951063
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Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc ed. by Anna Toropova and Claire Shaw (review)

Maria Cristina Galmarini
pp. 249-251
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951064
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Vorhersagen und Kontrollieren: Verhaltenswissen und Verhaltenspolitik in der Zeitgeschichte [Predicting and controlling: Behavioral knowledge and behavioral politics in contemporary history] by Rüdiger Graf (review)

Viola Balz
pp. 251-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951065
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Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China by Joseph W. Ho (review)

Xintong Wang
pp. 253-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951066
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Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society by John Alekna (review)

Anatoly Detwyler
pp. 255-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951067
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The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East by Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil (review)

Andrea Stanton
pp. 257-259
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951068
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Transatlantic Radio Dramas: Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II by Daniel Mandur Thomaz (review)

Nelson Ribeiro
pp. 259-260
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951069
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Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution by Eleanor Patterson (review)

Christina Dunbar-Hester
pp. 261-263
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951070
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No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure by Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren (review)

Isabelle Gouarné
pp. 263-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951071
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The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans by Jason Puskar (review)

Fernando Secomandi
pp. 265-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951072
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Sex Sounds: Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music by Danielle Shlomit Sofer (review)

Susan Schmidt Horning
pp. 267-268
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951073
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Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory by Douglas R. Reside (review)

Kelly Kessler
pp. 269-270
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951074
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Energy in the Nordic World by Anna Åberg and Mogens Rüdiger (review)

Peder Anker
pp. 271-272
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951075
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Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ran Zwigenberg (review)

James Dunk
pp. 273-274
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951076
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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey A. Huegel (review)

William M. Knoblauch
pp. 275-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951077
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Critical Connections: The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Present by Lee Riedinger et al. (review)

Annamaria Haden
pp. 277-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951078
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Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War, 1945–1970 by Matthew S. Wiseman (review)

Liza Piper
pp. 279-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951079
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The People's Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski (review)

Anna Reser
pp. 281-282
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951080
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Transatlantische Rivalitäten: Deutsche und amerikanische Einstellungen zu Technik, Kultur und Moderne [Transatlantic rivalries: German and American attitudes toward technology, culture, and modernity] by Frank Trommler (review)

Philipp Aumann
pp. 283-285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951081
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The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the History, the People, the Region by David Alff (review)

Jeff Schramm
pp. 285-286
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951082
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La mobilité au cœur du patrimoine: Genève: 120 ans de transports publics entre "Grande Histoire" et petites histoires [Mobility at the heart of heritage: Geneva: 120 years of public transportation between "Great History" and small stories] by Moreno Berva and Ludovic Maugué with Vincent Kaufmann (review)

Laurent Tissot
pp. 287-288
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951083
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Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World by Konstantinos Chatzis (review)

Veit Damm
pp. 288-290
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951084
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From Automated to Autonomous Driving: A Transnational Research History on Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change (1950–2000) by Fabian Kröger (review)

Matthew N. Eisler
pp. 290-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951085
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Fahrassistenz: Historische Perspektiven auf automobile Assistenzsysteme [Driver assistance: Historical perspectives on automotive assistance systems] by Silke Zimmer-Merkle (review)

Gian Marco Secci
pp. 292-294
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951086
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Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic by Lloyd Strickland and Harry Lewis (review)

Samuel Mckee
pp. 294-296
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951087
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Konrad Zuse's Early Computers: The Quest for the Computer in Germany by Raúl Rojas (review)

Michael Homberg
pp. 296-298
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951088
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Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools by Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard (review)

David E. Dunning
pp. 298-299
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951089
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Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting by Ira Chinoy (review)

Alma Steingart
pp. 300-301
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951090
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Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine by Chaim Gingold (review)

Daniel Whelan-Shamy
pp. 301-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951091
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R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life by Karel Čapek (review)

Stefan Poser
pp. 303-304
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951092
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Vom Verschwinden der Technik [On the disappearance of technology] by David Gugerli (review)

Stefan Krebs
pp. 304-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951093
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From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World's Columbian Exposition by Zachary L. Brodt (review)

Dan Holland
pp. 306-308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951094
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The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara (review)

Erik Loomis
pp. 308-309
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951095
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Ingénieurs mais apprentis [Engineers trained by apprenticeship] by Arnaud Pierrel (review)

Norbert Verdier
pp. 310-311
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2025.a951096
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