Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry
these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of research-technology, and ex tend it to many other phenomena which are less stable and less localized in time and space than the Zeeman/Cotton situation. In the following pages, we use the concept for instances where research activities are ori...
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Table of Contents:
- 1 A Fresh Look at Instrumentation: An Introduction
- Research-Technology
- A Specific Kind of Instrumentation
- The Book
- I Origins of the Research-Technology Community
- 2 From Theodolite to Spectral Apparatus: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Invention of a German Optical Research-Technology
- 3 The Research-Technology Matrix: German Origins, 1860–1900
- II Interstitial Worlds
- 4 Displacing Radioactivity
- 5 Strange Cooperations: The U.S. Research-Technology Perspective, 1900–1955
- 6 Mediating Between Plant Science and Plant Breeding: The Role of Research-Technology
- III Purviews of Generic Instruments
- 7 In Search of Space: Fourier Spectroscopy, 1950–1970
- 8 Putting Isotopes to Work: Liquid Scintillation Counters, 1950–1970
- 9 Making Mice and Other Devices: The Dynamics of Instrumentation in American Biomedical Research (1930–1960)
- IV Standardized Languages
- 10 From Dynamometers to Simulations: Transforming Brake Testing Technology Into Antilock Braking Systems
- 11 From the Laboratory to the Market: The Metrological Arenas of Research-Technology
- In Conclusion
- 12 Research-Technology in Historical Perspective: An Attempt at Reconstruction
- Bibliography of Selected References
- List of Contributors
- Bibliographical Notes on Contributors
- Author Index