Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

154 370. Twentieth century
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.
(xiii + 255 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN: 080186559X.
Reviews: [ref. 630, R855]
3374. STIVERS, Richard. “Roderick Seidenberg.”
Bull. Sci. Tech. Soc. 24 (2004): 151–154.
3375. THOMAS, Bruce MacA., and Brian J. ROBIN-
SON. “Harry Clive Minnett 1917–2003.” Hist. Rec.
Aust. Sci. 16 (2005): 199–220.
He was known for his work on radars as well as radio and
optical telescopes.
3376. TOMITA Tetsuo. “Patents Granted in Korea
in the Colonial Era.” [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002): 214–219.
3377. VERMIJ, Rienk. “Mededeling van redactie en
bestur.” Special Issue: De betwiste modernisering
van Nederland. Gewina 28 (2005): 5–6.
Articles about the history of technology in the Netherlands
include: Harry LINTSEN et al, “De betwiste mondernisering
van Nederland,” 9–11; Karel DAVIDS, “Keuzes en patronen
in de techniekgeschiedenis van Nederland in de Twintigste
eeuw,” 12–22; Geert VANPAEMEL, “De techniek van
de Nederlandse samenleving,” 23–31; Harry LINTSEN et
al, “De bijdrage van de techniekgeschiedenis aan de geschiedenis
van Nederland. Een reactie op Karel Davids en
Geert Vanpaemel,” 32–36; J. H. M. JANSSEN, “Wonderstof
en Sluipmoordenaar. De perceptie van het asbestgevaar als
spiegel van de tijd 1930–1990,” 38–53.
3378. WOLFE, Maynard Frank. Rube Goldberg:
Inventions. (191 pp.; ill.; bibl.) New York: Simon &
Schuster, 2000. ISBN: 0684867249.
3379. ZHAO Yanghui. “Soviet Union’s Aid to China
in Navy Technology Education: The Case of Naval
Engineering Department, Harbin Institute of Military
Engineering, 1952–1956.” [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Chinese J. Hist. Sci. Tech. 27 (2006): 19–31.
370-161. COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
3380. BODDY, William. New Media and Popular
Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital
Media in the United States. Oxford Television
Studies. (x + 172 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Oxford:
Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. ISBN: 0198711468.
3381. FERRY, Georgina. A Computer Called LEO:
Lyons Teashops and the World’s First Office Computer.
(xi + 221 pp.; ill.) London: Fourth Estate,
2003. ISBN: 1841151858.
3382. FOLTA, Jaroslav. V´yvoj v´ypočetní techniky.
Práce z dějin techniky a pˇrírodních věd, 5. (128 pp.)
Praha: Národní technické muzeum, 2005.
Overview from the 1930s to the construction of large mainframes;
looks at Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and
USA.
3383. HEINTZ, Bettina. “When Is a Proof a Proof?”
Soc. Stud. Sci. 33 (2003): 929–943.
Essay review of Donald A. MACKENZIE, Mechanizing Proof
(2001).
3384. HONG, Sungook. “Marconi’s Error: The First
Transatlantic Wireless Telegraphy in 1901.” Special
Issue: Errors: Consequences of Big Mistakes in the
Natural and Social Sciences [ref. 13]. Soc. Res. 72
(2005): 107–124.
3385. LÉCUYER, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley:
Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–
1970. Inside Technology. (x + 393 pp.; ill.; bibl.;
index.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006. ISBN:
0262122812.
3386. MOSCO, Vincent. The Digital Sublime:
Myth, Power, and Cyberspace. (232 pp.; bibl.; index.)
Cambridge/London: MIT Press, 2004. ISBN:
0262633299.
3387. MUSSIO, Laurence B. Telecom Nation:
Telecommunications, Computers and Governments
in Canada. (328 pp.; ill.) Montreal: McGill/Queen’s
Univ. Press, 2001. ISBN: 0773521755.
3388. PENG Yongdong. “The Early Diffusion of
Cybernetics in China (1929–1966).” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 23 (2004):
299–318.
3389. WEDGE, John. “The United States, Radio
Architecture, and Global Space, 1933–1951.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/01 (2005): 298.
Dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, 2004. Adviser: Hoddeson, Lillian. UMI pub.
no. 3160970. 331 pp.
3390. WINKLER, Jonathan Reed. “Wiring the World:
United States Foreign Policy and Global Strategic
Communications, 1914–1921.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A
65/03 (2004): 1088.
Dissertation at Yale University, 2004. Adviser: Gaddis, John
Lewis. UMI pub. no. 3125329. 424 pp.
370-163. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
3391. BESLEY, John C., and James SHANAHAN.
“Media Attention and Exposure in Relation to Support
for Agricultural Biotechnology.” Sci. Commun.
26 (2005): 347–367.
3392. BOWLEY, Patricia. “The Committee on Lands
of the Conservation Commission, Canada, 1909–
1921: Romantic Agrarianism in Ontario in an Age
of Agricultural Realism.” Sci. Canadensis 21 (1997):
67–87.
3393. CASTONGUAY, Stéphane. “L’Institut de Belleville
: expansion et déclin de la recherche sur le
contrôle biologique au Canada, 1909–1972.” Sci.
Canadensis 22-23 (1998-1999): 51–101.
3394. CECCATTI, John S. “Resisting Insects: Shifting
Strategies in Chemical Control.” Endeavour 28
(2004): 14–19.
3395. COTTER, Joseph. Troubled Harvest: Agronomy
and Revolution in Mexico, 1880–2002. Contributions
in Latin American studies, 22. (xxvi + 393
pp.; bibl.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003. ISBN:
0313325154.
3396. GILFOYLE, Daniel. “Veterinary Immunology
as Colonial Science: Method and Quantification in
the Investigation of Horsesickness in South Africa,
c. 1905–1945.” J. Hist. Med. Allied Sci. 61 (2006):
26–65.
3397. GRIGGS, Peter. “Entomology in the Service of
the State: Queensland Scientists and the Campaign
against Cane Beetles, 1895–1950.” Hist. Rec. Aust.
Sci. 16 (2005): 1–29.
3398. HU Xianxiao and HU Zong-gang. “A General
Survey of Research Institutions for Agriculture