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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.12.20.03 PDF: Twagira_Mills_Kranzberg Third and Sixth Laws Kranzberg’s Third Law By Laura Ann Twagira “Technology comes in packages, big and small” In 1986 Melvin Kranzberg wrote: “If we look into the history of any mechanical device, we find that the basic invention required other innovative changes to…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 4 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.12.20.04 PDF: Rogers_Curating Art Science and Technology Shadows and Ashes: The Peril of Nuclear Weapons Exhibits on the history of technology make arguments for the future of technologies. Along with the turn toward material practice in a variety of humanities fields and the urgency of science and…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.01 Davis_Levees Slavery and Maintenance Why is the U.S. Army in charge of the levees on the Mississippi River? There’s no one-sentence answer to this question. Even answering it in a paragraph would be difficult. The story of how the military became entwined with the great river…
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Technology’s Stories vol 6, no. 3 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.02 PDF: Wilk_Brief Histry of Dusting Cleaning kicks up dust, and dust takes its time to settle. In the early twentieth century, as business boomed and corporations clogged the sky, skyscraper managers scheduled a gap of hours between cleaning and dusting. They wrote about it in trade…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3: DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.03 PDF: Rostvik_Feminine Waste Only Every fortnight one man enters all the women’s toilets at our university, removes and replaces the sanitary bins, and drives away in a van. Observing this system, I became curious about the grey rectangle with foot-operated pedals, “modesty flaps”, bearing the warning “for…
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Technology’s Stories vol. 6, no. 3 – DOI:10.15763/jou.ts.2018.08.20.04 PDF: Benevento_LongLeases As landlord of the King’s Court Shopping Plaza, I pick up lots of trash. Once upon a time, I took the litter personally, as if picking it up one day, the place should stay clean the next. Now, I take it like weather. Heavy or…
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