LEADER 03496nam 22006371 450 001 9910459337103321 005 20101203105117.0 010 $a1-350-01910-0 010 $a1-282-87447-0 010 $a9786612874475 010 $a1-4411-4121-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350019102 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056151 035 $a(EBL)601473 035 $a(OCoLC)682540677 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000419723 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12210122 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419723 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10383867 035 $a(PQKB)10177237 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC601473 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL601473 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427139 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287447 035 $a(OCoLC)893335001 035 $a(OCoLC)1162870045 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260205 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056151 100 $a20161128d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHistory of technology$hVolume twenty-eighth, 2008 /$fedited by Ian Inkster 210 1$aLondon :$cContinuum,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (186 p.) 225 0 $aHistory of technology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-3875-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction: does standardization make things standard? / James Sumner and Graeme Gooday -- Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914 / Efstathios Arapostathis -- Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination / Chris Otter -- Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938 / Andrew L. Russell -- Battery birds, 'stimulighting' and 'twilighting': the ecology of standardized poultry technology / Karen Sayer -- Basicode: co-producing a microcomputer Esperanto / Frank Veraart -- Standards and compatibility: the rise of the PC platform / James Sumner -- IPv6: a history of the next-generation Internet / Laura DeNardis. 330 $a"Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into 'everyday life'. Includes the Special Issue By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aHistory of Technology 517 3 $aHistory of technology. 606 $aTechnology$xHistory 606 $2General & world history 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory. 676 $a609 702 $aInkster$b Ian 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459337103321 996 $aHistory of technology$956332 997 $aUNINA