Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them.
Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this fi...
Spotlighting technology users, this book presents a European history in which ordinary people wielded the power to affect designs and innovations. The authors show that mechanization has not taken command of our lives in the last 150 years. Instead, user movements have appropriated technology and shaped Europe in their own image.
Spotlighting technology users, this book presents a European history in which ordinary people wielded the power to affect designs and innovations. The...
Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools and techniques. In more recent years, however, activists, researchers, and policymakers have increasingly turned to mobilizing older technologies in their pursuit of sustainability. In fascinating case studies ranging from the Early Modern secondhand trade to utopian visions of human-powered vehicles, the contributions gathered here explore the historical fortunes of two such technologies-bicycling and waste recycling-tracing their development...
Technology has long been an essential consideration in public discussions of the environment, with the focus overwhelmingly on creating new tools ...
