Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

AisthomANVARAramisAravalArianeAT-2000Automatisme etTechniqueBalladurBarde!A large company that has long specialized in manufacturinglocomotives, electrical turbines, and railwaycars.Agence Nationale pour la Valorisation de la RechercheC National Agency for the Valorization of Research" ) .This state organization providcs matching fu nds for innovativeprojects to bc carried out by small privatecompanies in collaboration with public research laboratories.Acronym for Agencement en Rames Automatisc.es deModules Independants dans lcs Stations ("arrangementin automated trains of independent modules in stations"). The name is an allusion to one of the four heroesof Alexandre Dumas' well-known novel The ThreeMusketeers.A transit system that, like VAL, would have been automated;but unlike Aramis, it would have run on a standardline, without a dense network, withoutbranchings, and thus without the state-of-the-art electronicsof the nominal Aramis. Orly-Val is in effect abelated realization of this "downgrding" of Aramis.The European space rocket, which was developedwith the aim of breaking the American and Russianmonopoly on satellite launchers. The enterprise isboth a technological and a commercial success, and isoften cited as an example of the usefulness of cooperationamong European nations.One of the many PRT systems dreamed up by GerardBardet. The direct ancestor of Aramis, it was based onthe rather wild idea that train cars could be dividedlengthwise into separable parts. The carrier functionwould thus be distinct from the feeder function, as ifthe aisles were detachable from the seats.An engineering company, founded in 1951 by GerardBardet, that specialized in transport technology.Edouard Balladur was minister of finance in the governmentof Jacgues Chirac (1986-1988), during theperiod when Aramis was being developed. He laterserved as prime minister, from 1993 to 1995.Gerard Bardet was a brilliant engineer responsible formany technological innovations, especially in the fieldof transportation. Trained at the Ecole Poly technique,he was director of Automatisme et Te chnique (g. v. )and held the first patents on Aramis.GLOSSARY