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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"history of technology"”.
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Characterizing radio channels : the science and technology of propagation and interference, 1900-1935
… wireless experiment in 1900 marked the beginning of a communication revolution that transformed the open space above the earth into channels of information flow. This dissertation grapples with the historical conditions that gave rise to such a transformation: the studies of radio-wave propagation …
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Partisanship and Opportunities for Additional Bipartisanship in Tech Immigration and Privacy Reform
This paper explores the history of technology and government by analyzing the longstanding partisan advantage Democrats have had in the Silicon Valley and other tech hubs. Additionally, this paper seeks out opportunities for bipartisanship, specifically in the legislative realms of tech privacy and …
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Progress and its complications: Kuangch'i Program Service and the introduction of television technology to Taiwan
"This study examines the role of Kuangch'i Program Service in the introduction of television into Taiwan using a model for the contextual history of technology developed by John Staudenmaier. Central to the dissertation is the thesis that technologies are not ""autonomous,"" but rather arise as a …
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The Soviet Farm Complex : industrial agriculture in a Socialist context, 1945-1965
"The Soviet Farm Complex" is a history of food, farming and the environment in the postwar Soviet Union. It tells the story of how different technical and institutional authorities created an industrial Soviet countryside in the generation after World War II. Beyond the leadership of the Soviet …
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The MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft : humans and machines in action
… know? In an ethnographic and historical analysis of the Air Force's preeminent weapon system for the counterinsurgencies in the two countries, this study describes how social, technical, and cognitive factors mutually constitute remote air operations in war. Armed with perspectives and methods …
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Uncertainty Medicine: The Development of Radiation Therapy, 1895-1925
This dissertation offers an overview of the development of x-ray and radium therapy in both the United States and Great Britain in the period from 1896 to 1925. Specific attention is paid to the early work of pioneering radiation therapists, many of whom had not completed a traditional medical …
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Towards a deep ecology of art, technology and being - an ontological investigation with particular reference to the rock-cut edifices of Ellora, India, and Tadao Ando’s water temple
This practice-based thesis is an interrogation of ‘being’, one not centred on the human being. It concerns a being that manifests through dynamic inter-relation between human and other entities and phenomena in the universe. It considers several interrelated questions, interrogating notions of …
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Seeing the Screen: A History of Electrified Visuality
This thesis gives an account of the material history of the electronic screen, with a view to explicating its impact on visual culture and visuality from the nineteenth century to the present. The work argues that in its electrification, the screen has engendered its own distinctive forms of seeing …
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Engineering Education and the Spirit of Samurai at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo, 1871-1886
… the revolution that overthrew the feudal regime of the Tokugawa period in late nineteenth-century Japan. It was also the time of the opening of the country to the rest of the world, and Japan had to confront with Western powers. The Meiji government boldly accepted the new technologies from the …
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Beyond the Aesthetic Machine: Disney's Multiplane Camera and the Role of Special Effects Technologies in the Animation Industry
The Walt Disney Company, throughout its history, has foregrounded a commitment to technological innovation as a tool for creating stories and entertaining audiences. One of Disney's most celebrated exemplars of this commitment is the multiplane camera, a special effects device first introduced in …
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De la escucha atenta a la escucha visual. Aproximación teórica a los modelos de percepción de la música
From various branches of knowledge we have wondered about the where, when, what and who of listening to music, but we have done little research on how we do it. It is only since the 1980s, with the so-called "auditory turn", that we have been trying to build an account that has listening as the …
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Cheated by deepfakes? deepfake detection ability, people’s reactions, and ethical implications
Recent dramatic developments in the fields of computer vision and deep learning technology have opened up a range of possibilities not previously imagined. The applications of computer vision technology include manipulating any face in any video and changing the environment of photos, just to name …
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Student Perceptions and Use of Electronic Financial Aid Service Delivery
… argue the premise that financial aid is one of the most vital services offered to college students. Over fifty percent of today's college tuition is actually paid by some form of student aid, whether it is from federal, state, private, or institutional resources. The public perception of the …
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The Technological Infrastructure of Science
In this dissertation, I explore a selection of recent work in the philosophy and history of experiment, with an eye toward reformulating its focus and redirecting its future path. Specifically, I re-examine a traditional problem in the philosophy of experiment: how to make sense of scientists' …
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Tracking Technology and Society along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, 1890-1914
The construction of the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, along with its extension, the Baghdad Railroad, is often considered a case of foreign-driven modernization and pseudo-colonial investment in the Ottoman Empire and is assigned primary importance as a diplomatic problem aggravating tensions between …
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The Steep Climb to Low Earth Orbit: A History of the Space Elevator Community's Battle Against the Rocket Paradigm
This thesis examines the growth of the space elevator community in America from 1975 to 2010. It argues that the continued practical failures of the space elevator, a proposed technology for efficiently transporting payloads and people into space without conventional propulsion sources, resulted …
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The Power Production Paradox: Revealing the Socio-Technical Impediments to Distributed Generation Technologies
… environmental, technical, and financial promise of renewable energy systems and DG technologies, such generators still constitute a very small percentage of electricity generation capacity in the United States. This relative neglect occurs despite remarkable gains in their technical performance …
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Precarious printers : labour, technology & material culture at the NSW Government Printing Office 1959-1989
From 1959 to 1989 the NSW Government Printing Office (hereafter ‘the Gov’) was a government-run printing establishment that operated from a centralised factory in Ultimo, Sydney. Over a 30-year period marked by dramatic technological change and political transitions, the Gov was pulled in …
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Paper Towns: Sense of Place in Industrial, Small-Town New England, 1869-1927
… New England. In the late 1860s, the introduction of wood pulp paper technology transformed formerly small market and manufacturing communities into centers of heavy industry. This dissertation is a study of this transformation. It focuses on three communities: Bellows Falls, Vermont, Franklin, New …
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Open Systems in Practice and Theory
… there has been a dramatic shift in the role of amateurs, volunteers and hobbyists as it pertains to the production, distribution and use of information and communication technologies. The work presents four case studies that explore this transition and aim to explain how and why large-scale, …
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