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September 1st, 2015 by: Laura Ann Twagira
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September 1st, 2015 by: Drew Thompson
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September 1st, 2015 by: Jennifer Hart
Technology’s Stories vol. 3, no. 3 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2015.9.1.03 PDF: Hart_Automobility On May 31, 1940, the President of the Accra Town Council (ATC) wrote to the Colonial Secretary, complaining that “pirate passenger lorries” were plying the roads between the Gold Coast’s capital, Accra, and the eastern suburb of Labadi. A heavily traveled route, the road…
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September 1st, 2015 by: Tara Dosomu Diener
Technology’s Stories vol 3, no. 3 – doi:10.15763/JOU.TS.2015.9.1.04 PDF: Diener_Wards Apart Two continents, two hospitals Hospital A has problems. Exterior security is heavy with electronic technology meant to restrict access, but behind the doors the image of order fades. The night shift is so under-staffed that an off-duty EMT is recruited from the emergency department…
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June 21st, 2015 by: Christian Gelzer
Technology’s Stories vol. 3, no. 2 – doi: 10.15763/JOU.TS.2015.9.1.05 PDF: Gelzer_Speed is a Virtue In 1830 the Lancaster, Ohio school board observed with one voice that if God had meant “his creatures” to travel at the “frightful speed of 15 miles per hour He would have foretold it through His holy prophets.” Such speed was…
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