FBI Files on Nikola Tesla (1940-1983)
Filed under records | Tags: · electricity, history, history of science, invention, marxism, politics, science, security, yugoslavia
Released through the Freedom of Information Act.
Publisher Federal Bureau of Information, undated
FBI Records: The Vault series
290 pages
publisher
Myth: The FBI has Nikola Tesla’s plans for a “death ray” (FBI: Top 10 Myths)
The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (1987)
Filed under book | Tags: · history of technology, invention, neuroscience, social constructivism, sociology, sociology of science, technology
The impact of technology on society is clear and unmistakable. The influence of society on technology is more subtle. The 13 essays in this book draw on a wide array of case studies from cooking stoves to missile systems, from 15thÂcentury Portugal to today’s AI labs – to outline an original research program based on a synthesis of ideas from the social studies of science and the history of technology. Together they affirm the need for a study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.
Edited by Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hudges and Trevor J. Pinch
Publisher MIT Press, 1987
ISBN 0262022621, 9780262022620
419 pages
Key words and phrases: cognitivism, azo dyes, ultrasound, expert systems, Parkesine, Michel Callon, Trevor Pinch, sociology of science, gyroscope, social constructivist, consumption junction, Wiebe Bijker, Elmer Sperry, Congo red, nitrocellulose, Cape Bojador, accelerometer, turbojet, Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Celluloid
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