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

BertinBienvenueBus DivisionCabinentaxiCantoreatadiopterCElCGTChaussonChiraeCMDJean Bertin (1919-1975), French engineer who firstworked for SNECMA (q.v.), then set up his own consultingand engineering firm. With Paul Guyenne, heinvented the aero train (q. v. ).Fulgence Bienvenue, one of the engineers who designedthe Paris subway. See the excellent report producedunder the direction of Maurice Daumas, Analysehistori q ue de l'evolution des transports en commun dans 1aregion parisienne, 1855-1 930 (Paris: Editions du CNRS,1977) .The " Routier" : one of the two major divisions of theRATP (q.v.). The other is the "Ferroviaire," the RailDivision.One of the many PRT systems-a cross between atrain and a taxi. It was developed in Germany over anumber of years, at the same time that Aramis was beingbuilt and tested.Georg Cantor (1845-1 918), German mathematicianwho developed set theory and demonstrated the existenceof transfinite numbers.A type of reflector, invented by a French astronomer(at least, this is what the French claim) , that is madeof mirrors and lenses-i.e., that operates by means ofboth reflection and refraction. Catadiopters are commonlyfound on bicycles, cars, and other vehicles.Centre d'Experimentation Te chnique (" Center for TechnicalExperimentation," or full-system site study) .This is not a fixed site but rathcr the name for thephase during which the chief innovations of a newtechnology are tested.Confederation Generale du Travail: one of France'smany labor unions-the biggest in terms of membership.In tactics and ideology, it is strongly associatedwith the Communist Party, which was still veryinfluential when the Aramis saga began.A company that specializes in the manufacture of carsand buses and that made the first buses for the RATP.The Chausson APU 53 was the ancestor of the busesthat run in Paris today.Jacques Chirac, head of the Gaullist Party, served asprime minister of France 1974-1976 and 1986-1988.He was also the mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995,and was elected president of France in 1995.Canton Mobile Deformable (" adjustable mobileGLOSSARY=.14