The October 2020 "Special Issue: Manufacturing Modernity: Innovations in Early Modern Europe" of π˜›π˜¦π˜€π˜©π˜―π˜°π˜­π˜°π˜¨π˜Ί & 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘦 is now available online!

Check out the thread below for a preview of everything in it - including TWO new sections.
Radical technological changes shaped revolutionary developments in intellectual property, manufacturing, and consumption in the early modern period. Guest editor @DrAdamLucas and contributors explore what social and economic factors drove those technical changes.
This issue begins with the guest editor @DrAdamLucas 's "Manufacturing Modernity. Innovations in Early Modern Europeβ€”An Introduction"

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777600 
Then @lhst_epfl explores what #patents have to do with politics through a study of how the #frenchrevolution shaped inventions in "A Politics of Intellectual Property: Creating a Patent System in Revolutionary France"

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777601 
What could possibly be controversial about a streetlamp? Benjamin Bothereau explores the politics of the streetlamp in "Illuminated Publics: Representations of Street Lamps in Revolutionary France"

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777602 
What can a ventilator tell us about European societies and late 18th century industrialization? Marie ThΓ©baud-Sorger shows in "Changing Scale to Master Nature: Promoting Small-scale Inventions in Eighteenth-century France and Britain" how inventors and consumers shaped the
emerging consumption culture. The result: designers offered different sizes of mundane artefacts like ventilators, steam cookers, and furnaces to capture nature’s wonders.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777603 
@LBoschieroWhy asks why did the Versailles fountain technology work so well? Read about the thinkers at the French AcadΓ©mie des Sciences, who realized the king's dreams in "Machines, Motion, Mechanics: Philosophers Engineering the Fountains of Versailles"

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777605 
In "A New Perspective on the Natural Philosophy of Steams and Its Relation to the Steam Engine" David Philip Miller intervenes on the "anachronistic" idea of steam as a "working substance" to merely transfer heat in the 18th century.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777607 
After those excellent articles, settle in for our 𝑡𝑬𝑾, twice annual π‘·π’–π’ƒπ’π’Šπ’„ π‘―π’Šπ’”π’•π’π’“π’š section.

Technology and Culture proudly announces a new Public History section discussing the multiple media representations of #histtech scholarship to reach beyond academia.
Read the introduction to this new section from the Editors, β€œTake 1: Historians of Technology Watching Chernobyl.”

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777609 
HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries combines factual inaccuracies and poetic license to produce moments close to history. Sonja D. Schmid discusses why historians of technology might find HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries productive despite its flaws.
Read Schmid's β€œChernobyl the TV Series: On Suspending the Truth or What’s the Benefit of Lies?” here

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777610 
Chernobyl is the most well known nuclear accident in history, yet few in the West know how people of the Ukraine have memorialized the disaster argues @VeroWendland in her article β€œUkrainian Memory Spaces: The Musealization of Chornobyl’s Nuclear Disaster.”
Read about it in this revealing piece focused on the making of the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777611 
To create true and false in crisis is to fight #NonKnowledge. HBO’s #Chernobyl reveals the challenge when #reality has radically changed. See the article by @eglerin @KingstonUni β€œChernobyl as Technoscience.”

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777612 
To create true and false in crisis is to fight #NonKnowledge. HBO’s #Chernobyl reveals the challenge when #reality has radically changed. See the article by @eglerin @KingstonUni β€œChernobyl as Technoscience.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777612 
To create true and false in crisis is to fight #NonKnowledge. HBO’s #Chernobyl reveals the challenge when #reality has radically changed. See the article by @eglerin @KingstonUni β€œChernobyl as Technoscience.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777612 
Announcing another new feature in π˜›π˜¦π˜€π˜©π˜―π˜°π˜­π˜°π˜¨π˜Ί & 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘦 : β€œπ‘¨π’“π’„π’‰π’Šπ’—π’†π’” π‘Ήπ’†π’—π’Šπ’”π’Šπ’•π’†π’…β€! This section draws on the riches of 60 years of Scholarship in π˜›π˜¦π˜€π˜©π˜―π˜°π˜­π˜°π˜¨π˜Ί & 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘦 to explore themes of current interest.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777614 
Did you know that Mobilities scholarship emerged in part from pioneering work that was first published in Technology and Culture since 1958? In the first "π‘¨π’“π’„π’‰π’Šπ’—π’†π’” π‘Ήπ’†π’—π’Šπ’”π’Šπ’•π’†π’…" Peter Norton tours treasures from Technology and Culture’s attic in ...
β€œUrban Transport and Mobility in Technology and Culture,” to help us see where the field came from and how it can guide us today.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777617 
Readers can also find under "Organizational Notes": "Technology and Power": The International Committee for the History of Technology's (ICOHTEC), University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland (July 22–27, 2019)"

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/777613 
Lastly, a medley of insightful reviews close the issue. Attached screenshots cover the range! Read them here:

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43645 
Lastly, a medley of insightful reviews close the issue. Attached screenshots cover the range! Read them here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43645 
Lastly, a medley of insightful reviews close the issue. Attached screenshots cover the range! Read them here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/43645 
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