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January 5th, 2021 by: Kang Yeonsil
Technology’s Stories vol 8, no. 3 – DOI: https://doi.org/10.15763/jou.ts.2021.01.05.01 Kang On August 25, 1995, my family drove uphill, in the pouring rain, towards the Soyang Multipurpose Dam. We planned to watch the spectacle of water being discharged from three flood gates of the largest rock-fill dam in East Asia. With the water level reaching just…
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January 5th, 2021 by: Manuel, Jeffrey T.
Technology’s Stories vol. 8, no. 3 – DOI: https://doi.org/10.15763/jou.ts.2021.01.05.04 Manuel We historians of technology are constantly assessing technology and placing it in historical context. But from time to time, it is useful to consider how the technologies we rely on shape the stories we tell about technology. Specifically, how has the so-called digitized turn within…
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September 28th, 2020 by: Yovanna Pineda
Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.01 Pineda_Ways of Seeing Maintenance Introduction: Representation of Machinery Use in Argentine Culture and Film In this technology story, I use ethnographic material from my original documentary film, Stories of the Harvester (https://vimeo.com/395115057), to discuss how the camera evokes spectators’ feelings about the subculture of farm…
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September 28th, 2020 by: Christiane Berth
Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.02 Berth_Fear Curiosity and New Social Rules In the late nineteenth century, local governments began to install telephone lines in Latin American cities. Among the first countries to introduce telephone service were Cuba, Chile, and Mexico, all of whom did so in the 1880s. At first, the…
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September 28th, 2020 by: Jethron Ayumbah Akallah
Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.03 Akallah_Technologies From Below In a study on water vending in Tanzania, Marianne Kjellén points out that in most developing countries, a piped water supply in the city is the norm for the richer households, while poorer households struggle to access water by other means.[1] Most of…
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September 28th, 2020 by: Robert Heinze
Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.04 Heinze_Le Gyrobus In the history of technology, there is no shortage of artefacts that, once propagated as supremely modern and useful, quickly disappeared and were forgotten as more practicable standards, simpler technological solutions for the same problem or just a company with better market coverage brought…
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