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

sniffer planeSOFRESSOFRETUSouth linetech French company specializing in airplane androcket engines.An airplane that was the focus of a huge scandal inthe early 1980s. Oil companies and bogus scientistscollaborated in financing and developing a revolutionary system designed to sniff out oil reservcs fromabove. The instrument's black box, when it was finallyopened, turned out to be empty. The scandal was publicly acknowledged in 1983, after being denied severaltimes by former president Valery Giscard-dEstaing.One of France's largest polling firms, specializing inpolitical and marketing polls.A consulting and development firm for guided-transportation systems. The RATP owns 80 percent of it.The Rocade Sud: a maj or transverse line into the suburbs of Paris (see map in the frontmatter) which allowedpeople to travel, without passing through Paris,among many small communities where demand wastoo small to support a standard metro system .testing phase The last phase of a project before final approval thatis, acceptance by the public authorities of the transportationsystem's safety.TGVTRACSUGETrain a Grande Vitesse ("high-speed train"). Thesetrains, which criss-cross France at a speed of 300 kilometersper hour, have been a great technical and economicsuccess for the SNCF.A very clever system of moving sidewalks that succeed in the apparently impossible feat of going fasterin the central portion than at either edge. It was abandoned in 1986. Since the same engineers and thesame decisionmakers work on all such transportationsystems, successes or failures in one area have repercussions for the others, even though the technologicalprinciples may be quite different.Unitt de Gestion Embarquee (" onboard controlunit" ): an electronic unit on board the transportationvehicle that functions to control safety, driving, and supervision.UGT Unite de Gestion de 1'ron