July 2021

VOLUME 62, No 3

Front Matter
Table of Contents

The Female Absorption Coefficient: The Miniskirt Study, Gender, and Mormon
Architectural Acoustics
Amanda Beardsley

Opening the Red Box: The Fire Alarm Telegraph and Politics of Risk Response in Imperial
Germany, 1873–1900
Jan Hua-Henning

Seeing (Infra)red: Epidemiology, Extraction, and the Birth of Breast Thermography

Jennifer Fraser

What hath Allah wrought? The Global Invention of Prescriptive Machines for the Islamic
Consumer, 1975-2010
Leor Halevi

How Does It Explode? Understanding Risk in European Mining Doctrine, 1803–1906

John E. Murray and Javier Silvestre

A “Corruption of Science?” The Strategic Defense Initiative and British Technology Policy
Antony Eames

The Maniac-Making Machine: A Media History of Delayed Auditory Feedback

Owen Marshall

ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES

SHOT Awards

The 47th Symposium of the International Committee for the History of Technology,
ICOHTEC’s first digital meeting, July 15–17, 2020
Yoel Bergman, Florian Bettel, Maria Elvira Callapez, Donna J. Drucker, Francesco Gerali,
Dick van Lente, Tiina Männistö-Funk, Stefan Poser, Thomas Schuetz

BOOK REVIEWS
Note to MUSE: Please list the foreign language titles of the books reviewed, the translations
are just done by us and not official in any way.
Review of Calculating Race: Racial Discrimination in Risk Assessment by Benjamin Wiggins |
Michael F. McGovern

Review of Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives
Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain | Pavithra Suresh and Alexander Monea

Review of Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography by Nicole Dawn Strathman |
Cindy Ott

Review of Apostle of Progress: Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering
of Revolutionary Mexico by Justin J. Castro | Germán Vergara

Review of Technology in Latin American History edited by David Pretel and Helge Wendt |
Yovanna Pineda

Review of De la Guerra Fría al calentamiento global: Estados Unidos, España y el nuevo

orden científico mundial [From Cold War to global warming: United States, Spain, and the new
world scientific order] edited by Lino Camprubí, Xavier Roqué, and Francisco Sáez de Adana |
Jaume Valentines-Álvarez

Review of Anticoncepción, mujeres y género: La ‘píldora’ en España y Polonia (1960–1980)

[Contraception, women, and gender: The ‘pill’ in Spain and Poland (1960–1980)] by Agata
Ignaciuk and Teresa Ortiz Gómez | Maria Labbato

Review of Blood Relations: Transfusion and the Making of Human Genetics by Jenny Bangham
| Boel Berner

Review of Die Technische Hochschule München im Nationalsozialismus [The Technische

Hochschulen under National Socialism] edited by Wolfgang A. Herrmann and Winfried
Nerdinger | Robert Fox

Review of Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia: Actors, Arenas, and Aspirations

edited by Johan Östling, Niklas Olsen, and David Larsson Heidenblad | Thomas Kaiserfeld

Review of Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India
by Megan Eaton Robb | Nile Green

Review of Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil | Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Review of Strahlen im Kalten Krieg. Nuklearer Alltag und atomarer Notfall in der Schweiz
[Radiation in the cold war: The nuclear everyday and atomic emergency in Switzerland]
by Sibylle Marti and Strom für die Republik. Die Stasi und das Kernkraftwerk Greifswald
[Electricity for the Republic: The Stasi and the Greifswald nuclear power plant] by Sebastian
Stude | Dolores L. Augustine
Review of The Future of Nuclear Waste: What Art and Archaeology Can Tell Us about Securing
the World’s Most Hazardous Material by Rosemary A. Joyce | Cornelius Holtorf

Review of Vom Scheitern der kybernetischen Utopie. Die Entwicklung von Überwachung und
Informationsverarbeitung im MfS [About the collapse of the cybernetic utopia. Surveillance and
information processing in the State Security Service] by Christian Booß | Philipp Aumann

Review of Il computer è donna. Eroine geniali e visionarie che hanno fatto la storia
del’informatica [The computer is female: Brilliant and visionary heroines who made computer
science history] by Carla Petrocelli | Ginevra Sanvitale

Review of The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance by Austin Choi-
Fitzpatrick and Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare by
Katherine Chandler | Tim Schultz

Review of Atari Design: Impressions on Coin-Operated Video Game Machines by Raiford

Guins | Jaroslav Švelch

Review of Pour une histoire de l’archéologie navale. Les bateaux et l’histoire [Toward a history
of nautical archaeology: Boats and history] by Éric Rieth | Géraldine Barron

Review of The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600–1800: Continuity and Innovation in a
Key Technology by Phillip Reid | Amélia Polónia

Review of Science, Utility and British Naval Technology, 1793–1815: Samuel Bentham and the
Royal Dockyards by Roger Morriss | Phillip Reid

Review of A Thousand Ways Denied: The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana by John T.
Arnold | Brian C. Black

Review of Cultivating Nature: The Conservation of a Valencian Working Landscape by Sarah

R. Hamilton | Judit Gil-Farrero

Review of The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the
World by Peder Anker | Elena Kochetkova

Review of The Place with No Edge: An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the
Mississippi River Delta by Adam Mandelman | Drew Swanson

Review of Menaces sur l'alimentation. Emballages, colorants et autres contaminants

alimentaires XIXe-XXIe siècles [Threats to food: Packaging, colorants and other food
contaminants, 19th–20th centuries] by Florence Hachez-Leroy | Jean-Pierre Williot

Review of Wireless Internationalism and Distant Listening: Britain, Propaganda, and the
Invention of Global Radio, 1920–1939 by Simon J. Potter | Bruce B. Campbell
Review of Radio’s Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives edited by John Allen
Hendricks | Maria Rikitianskaia

Review of Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878–1939 by Doron Galili |

Ariel Rogers

Review of How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940 by Thomas C. Hubka |
Irene Cieraad

Review of Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Bess Williamson |

Magdalena Zdrodowska

Review of Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France by
Paola Bertucci | Sven Dupré

Review of Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in

the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900–1940 by Eugenia Lean | Linda Grove

Review of Steam City: Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-
Century Baltimore by David Schley | Albert J. Churella

Review of Railroads and the Transformation of China by Elisabeth Köll | Ying Jia Tan
Review of Technology in the Industrial Revolution by Barbara Han | Chris Evans

Review of D’eau et de feu: forges et énergie hydraulique, XVIIIe -XXe siècle. Une histoire
singulière de l’industrialisation française [Of water and fire: Forges and hydraulic power, 18th–
20th century. A singular history of French industrialization] by Serge Benoît | Alain Beltran

Review of Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar by Paul Atkinson | John Hajduk

Review of A Business History of the Bicycle Industry. Shaping Marketing Practices by Carlo
Mari | Bernhard Wieser