Project MUSE: Technology and Culture

Erratum | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

Cover Essay: About the Series | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

Cover Essay: Visualizing Oil's Pubic Image | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Sarah Stanford-Mcintrye

A Long History: From Universal Language to Artificial Intelligence | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Mostafa H. Abdou

Before Utility: The MingKwai Typewriter as Democratic Alternative | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Miaofeng Yao

Computing Kinship: How Genealogy and Religion Shaped Our Digital Infrastructure | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Meg Leta Jones,

Securitized Etiquette: How Intercoms Reshaped Domestic Interaction in Modern Japan | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Misha Bykowski

Predictive Numbers: Labor, Data, and Power in the U.S. Oil Industry | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre

Making Passengers Work: Infrastructural Labor and Exclusion in Mid-Twentieth-Century Stockholm's Public Transit | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Elise Perrault,

Beyond Diffusion: Maintenance, Craft, and the Rise of Technical Prestige in Colonial Lima | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Ruggero Pace Gravina

Constructing the State: Materiality, Imaginaries and the Politics of Chilean Electrification, 1939–43 | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: José Soto Vejar,

Why Concorde Failed: Political Economy and the Limits of Techno-Nationalism | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Tom Kelsey

Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600–1600 by Pamela O. Long (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Adam Lucas

Technology and Performance during the Renaissance: The Musical World of Leonardo da Vinci by Plinio Innocenzi (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 20...

by: Francesca Fiorani

Pseudo-Māshā'allāh, On the Astrolabe: A Critical Edition of the Latin Text with English Translation by Ron B. Thomson (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, ...

by: Charles Burnett

Making an Industrial Revolution: Skill, Knowledge, Community and Innovation by Gillian Cookson (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Sean Bottomley

Historias de ingenieros en América Latina: Entre el Estado y los desafíos productivos, 1870–1980 [Histories of engineers in Latin America: Between the...

by: Israel G. Solares

Huellas, Ashiato, Paulkhuna: La impronta asiática en la ciencia y la tecnología en Venezuela durante el siglo XX [Footprints, Ashiato, Paulkhuna: The ...

by: Hebe Vessuri

Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry of Spanish Modernization by Óscar Iván Useche (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Daniel Pérez-Zapico

Les traits de l'invention: Production et usages du dessin d'objet technique en Angleterre au tournant du XIXe siècle [The features of invention: Produ...

by: Valérie Nègre

In Search of Technological Excellence: Education and Engineering in Post-War Britain by John Heywood (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Stéphane Lembré

Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany by Anthony J. Knowles, and: The Human and the Mac...

by: Jason Resnikoff

Cultivating Machines: The Use and Maintenance of Technology in Midwestern Agriculture, 1845–1900 by James Rick (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2...

by: Peter Simons

Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments by Gretchen Heefner (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Matthew S. Wiseman

Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood by Abigail A. Van Slyck (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Meredith A. Bak

Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean by Erica Morawski (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Alejandra Bronfman

The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles by Seth Long (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Kyle Devine

Czechoslovakia at the World's Fairs: Behind the Façade by Marta Filipová (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Michal Ďurčo

Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano, 1915–1965 by Thomas J. Campanella (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2...

by: Edward Slavishak

The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois ed. by Marci S. Uihlein (review) | Volume 67, Number 2,...

by: Louis P. Cain

The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication by Carlotta Darò (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Andrea Giuntini

Architecture, Empire and Trade: The United Africa Company by Iain Jackson et al. (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Gregory Valdespino

Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015 by Kundai Manamere (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Denis Mwanyanja Mwiba

The Product of Medicine: How Efficiency Made American Health Care by Caitjan Gainty (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Kirsten E. Gardner

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography by Jeremy Stolow (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Claire Rostov

La ronde des bêtes: Le moteur animal et la fabrique de la modernité [The circle of beasts: The animal engine and the factory of modernity] by François...

by: Raphaël Morera

Coal in Modern Britain: A Social and Cultural History from 1830 to the Second World War by Charles-François Mathis (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, Apr...

by: Chris Evans

Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia's Fossil Economy by Katja Bruisch (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Elena Kochetkova

Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade, and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin by Jeronim Perović (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Peter Rutland

Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age by Marc Landry (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Robert Groß

The Nuclear-Water Nexus ed. by Per Högselius and Siegfried Evens (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Michiel Bron

Contaminated Country: Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia by Jessica Urwin, and: Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism across...

by: Willow Ross

Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China by Xiangli Ding (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: John Kanbayashi

Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States by Sandeep Vaheesan (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Julie A. Cohn

Wegwerfprodukt Auto: Automobilentsorgung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Österreich, 1960–2000 [The car as a disposable product: Car disposal in...

by: Christopher Neumaier

Reclaiming the Road: Mobility Justice beyond Complete Streets by David L. Prytherch (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Adonia E. Lugo

Im Morgengrauen der Digitalisierung: Die IG Metall und die Zweite Industrialisierung (1950−1970) [At the dawn of digitalization: IG Metall and the Sec...

by: Johannes Kleinmann

Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Technological Futures by Luis Felipe R. Murillo (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Verónica Uribe del Águila

Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyrights Made the Online World by Gerardo Con Díaz (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Jose Bellido

A User's Guide to the Age of Tech by Grant Wythoff (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Zachary Loeb

Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism by Mauro Lubrano (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Emilie Grybos

Why War? by Richard Overy (review) | Volume 67, Number 2, April 2026

by: Marcel Berni

On the Cover: Cold War Imagery and the History of Technology | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Georgi Georgiev

Losing the Salmon: Technology, Science, and Ecological Decline on the Rhine | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Nil Disco

The Technological Vagina: Kegel's Perineometer and the Rehabilitation of Womanhood | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Madeleine S. L. Ware

Crafting the Maritime Metalwork: Global Tin, Local Hands, and Pewter Innovation in South China | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Yijun Wang

Pipe Dreams: Technological Utopianism and the Global Pursuit of Desalination for Development in the 1960s | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Elizabeth Hameeteman

Early Digital Technologies and the Harmonization of Traffic Information Systems in Europe, 1974–96 | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Christian Franke,

When the Lamps Went Out: Emotion, Memory, and Rural Electrification in England and Finland, 1880s–1910s | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Tiia Sahrakorpi,

Deafening Data: Sound Measurement and Knowledge Making in the Cold War | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Georgi Georgiev

Powering Modernity: Fossil Capitalism and Japan's Electrification | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Chenxiao Li

History of Technology in Russia: Navigating a Shifting Terrain | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Elena Kochetkova

Anchoring Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity ed. by Miko Flohr, Stephan T. A. M. Mols, and Teun Tieleman (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, ...

by: Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Technology, Crafting and Artisanal Networks in the Greek and Roman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ceramics ed. by Diego Elia, Ele...

by: Valentina Limina

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality by Kylie Crane (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Maria Elvira Callapez

Spectacles of Waste by Warwick Anderson (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Baptiste Monsaingeon

The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air by Bruno J. Strasser and Thomas Schlich (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Nancy Tomes

Energy's History: Toward a Global Canon ed. by Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Anna Åberg

More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Christopher F. Jones

Kontroverse Sicherheit: Atomwirtschaft und Kernenergiediskussion in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1975–1992) [Controversy over safety: The nuclear i...

by: Felix Schöber

Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center by Ksenia Tatarchenko (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Andy Bruno

The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832 by Sebastian Giessmann (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Maria Paula Diogo

Agricultural Science as International Development: Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era ed. by Helen Anne Curry and Timothy W. Lorek (review) | Vo...

by: Leida Fernández-Prieto

Interrogating Development: The Mobilisation of Science, Technologies, and Technical Assistance in Postwar Mexico ed. by Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-...

by: Justin Castro

Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina by María de los Ángeles Picone (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January...

by: Diego Arango López,

Chile Underground: The Santiago Metro and the Struggle for a Rational City by Andra B. Chastain (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Mónica Humeres

Los ingenieros en España: El nacimiento de una élite [Engineers in Spain: The institution of an elite] by Darina Martykánová (review) | Volume 67, Num...

by: Óscar Iván Useche

在来的発展と大都市:20世紀日本における中小経営の展開 Zairaiteki hatten to daitoshi: 20 seiki nihon niokeru chūshōkeiei no tenkai [Indigenous development and metropolis: The ex...

by: Asuka Imaizumi

Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya by Fiona Williamson (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Togo Tsukahara

Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France by Patrick Luiz Sullivan de Oliveira (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2...

by: Mi Gyung Kim

Beautiful New Sky: Fabricating Bodies for Outer Space in East Germany's Military Laboratories by Ines Geipel (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2...

by: Alexander C. T. Geppert

Cosmonaut: A Cultural History by Cathleen S. Lewis (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Alexei Kojevnikov

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA's Space Complex by Jeffrey S. Nesbit (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Stuart W. Leslie

Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain by Rebecca Charbonneau (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Jérôme Lamy

From the Laboratory to the Moon: The Quiet Genius of George R. Carruthers by David H. DeVorkin (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: James Schwoch

CRASH! Aviation Disasters and the Cultural Debris Fields by Randy Malamud (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Jie Zhong

Time Machines: Telegraphic Images in Nineteenth-Century France by Richard Taws (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Jérôme Baudry

Der diachrone Telegrafist: Figurationen der Drahtlosigkeit und ihre nostalgische Prospektion [The diachronic telegraph operator: Figurations of wirele...

by: Torsten Kathke

The Global Wireless: Transnational Radiotelegraphy and Its Disruption in World War I by Maria Rikitianskaia (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 20...

by: Sarah Nelson

Contested Airwaves: American Radio at Home and Abroad, 1914–1946 by Michael A. Krysko (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Christine Ehrick

Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home by Beaty Rubens (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Maria Rikitianskaia

Counting on Computers: New Information Technologies and Curricular Change in East Germany, 1960s to 1990 by Carmen Flury (review) | Volume 67, Number ...

by: Johannes Kleinmann

The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive by Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic (review) | Volume 67, Number...

by: Colin Post

Infrastructure in Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic Film, 1968–2021 by Christian B. Long (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece

After the End: Cold War Culture and Apocalyptic Imaginations in the Twenty-First Century by David L. Pike (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Marie Cronqvist

Graph Vision: Digital Architecture's Skeletons by Theodora Vardouli (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Matthew Allen

Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 by Alexander Wood (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2...

by: Adam Longenbach

Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism by Jason A. Heppler (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Jeremy Vetter

Age of Auto Electric: Environment, Energy, and the Quest for the Sustainable Car by Matthew N. Eisler (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Mathieu Flonneau

Les ateliers de la parure: Savoirs et pratiques des artisans en France XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles [The workshops of adornment: Knowledge and practices of ar...

by: Yohann Guffroy

Type Designers of the Twentieth Century by David Jury (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Dori Griffin

War Underground: A History of Military Mining in Siege Warfare by Earl J. Hess (review) | Volume 67, Number 1, January 2026

by: Matthew Ford