In This Issue - Society for the History of Technology

SHOT Newsletter 22
July 2006
Chris McGahey, Georgia Institute of Technology:
"'Traffic Cop of the Ether': Quartz Crystal and the
Development of a National Radio Frequency
Measurement and Control Industry in Interwar
America"
Rebecca P. Scales, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick: "Cosmopolitanism and Cacophony on the
Airwaves: Radio Static, Signals, and Geopolitical
Imagination in 1930s France"
Michael A. Krysko, Kansas State University:
"Blasting and Building Borders: International
Broadcasting and American Identity in the 1930s"
Terry Hamblin, SUNY-Delhi: "Selling America: The
ÔVoice of America' and U.S. Radio Propaganda to
Western Europe during the early Cold War, 1945-
1954"
54. Ghost in the Machine: Science,
Industrialization and Rostow's Legacy
Organizer: Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College
Chair: Daryl Hafter, Michigan Technological
University
Comment: Gabriel Finkelstein, University of
Colorado, Denver
Leonard Rosenband, Utah State: "The Path of Least
Resistance: Enlightenment, Mechanization, and
English Papermaking, 1750-1820"
William J. Ashworth, University of Liverpool:"
Technology, Regulation, and the British Industrial
Revolution Reconsidered"
Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College: "Backward States
as Scientific Incubators"
Lissa Roberts, University of Twente: "From the
Chemical Revolution to the Knowledge Economy"
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