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Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.05 Gordon_Driving Jim Crow The twentieth century saw the rise of the automobile as the most important consumer product and economic lever in the United States. Driving became a required expression of American nationalism and citizenship. Yet American car culture was also inextricably intertwined with race. The…
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Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.06 Montano_Visuaizing Imprudentes Jacinto S. García arrived to Mexico City in the summer of 1909. Astonished to find a “beautiful, clean, grand and Europeanized city,” the business representative of the Argentine government judged it deserved to be listed among the urban centers of the civilized world.[1] Throughout…
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Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.07 Wolfe_Cuba’s Battle of Spare Parts People tell many stories about the Cuban Revolution of 1959 but two tend to predominate. The first marks the triumph of the revolution through armed struggle, either celebrating (or, depending upon the politics of the writer, lamenting) the end of Cuba’s…
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Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.08 Robles_Good Luck From the mid-1920s to the 1930s hundreds of shortwave radio amateurs in the United States and Canada including DXers (distance fiends, as they called themselves), Mexican citizens, European immigrants, housewives, and teenagers, frequently tuned in to transmissions from Mexican stations and penned letters…
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Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.09.28.09 Pineda et al_Dialogues Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Maseno University, Kenya Christiane Berth, University of Graz, Austria Fon Gordon, Department of History, University of Central Florida, USA Robert Heinze, University of Trier, Germany Diana Montaño, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Yovanna Pineda, University…
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Technology’s Stories v. 8, no. 1 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2020.06.08.01 PDF: Perez_Aesthetics Walking the streets of Madrid at dusk is a splendid occasion to encounter the dazzling night life of a European capital that never sleeps. However, I found it particularly striking to stumble across a tiny chapel hiding in a corner of one of the…
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