Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry
Editors: Joerges, B., Shinn, T. (Eds.)
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these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of research-technology, and ex tend it to many other phenomena which are less stable and less localized in time and space than the Zeeman/Cotton situation. In the following pages, we use the concept for instances where research activities are orientated primarily toward technologies which facilitate both the production of scientific knowledge and the production of other goods. In particular, we use the tenn for instances where instruments and meth ods· traverse numerous geographic and institutional boundaries; that is, fields dis tinctly different and distant from the instruments' and methods' initial focus. We suggest that instruments such as the ultra-centrifuge, and the trajectories of the men who devise such artefacts, diverge in an interesting way from other fonns of artefacts and careers in science, metrology and engineering with which students of science and technology are more familiar. The instrument systems developed by re search-technologists strike us as especially general, open-ended, and flexible. When tailored effectively, research-technology instruments potentially fit into many niches and serve a host of unrelated applications. Their multi-functional character distin guishes them from many other devices which are designed to address specific, nar rowly defined problems in a circumscribed arena in and outside of science. Research technology activities link universities, industry, public and private research or me trology establishments, instrument-making finns, consulting companies, the military, and metrological agencies. Research-technology practitioners do not follow the career path of the traditional academic or engineering professional.
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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A Fresh Look at Instrumentation an Introduction
Pages 1-13
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From Theodolite to Spectral Apparatus: Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Invention of a German Optical Research-Technology
Pages 17-28
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The Research-Technology Matrix: German Origins, 1860–1900
Pages 29-48
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Displacing Radioactivity
Pages 51-68
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Strange Cooperations The U.S. Research-Technology Perspective, 1900–1955
Pages 69-95
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry
- Editors
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- B. Joerges
- T. Shinn
- Series Title
- Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
- Series Volume
- 22
- Copyright
- 2001
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-010-9032-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-010-9032-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-0242-7
- Series ISSN
- 0167-2320
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 272
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics
