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Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 22
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these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of
research-technology, and ex tend it to many other phenomena which
are less stable and less localized in time and space than the
Zeeman/Cotton situation. In the following pages, we use the concept
for instances where research activities are orientated primarily
toward technologies which facilitate both the production of
scientific knowledge and the production of other goods. In
particular, we use the tenn for instances where instruments and
meth ods. traverse numerous geographic and institutional
boundaries; that is, fields dis tinctly different and distant from
the instruments' and methods' initial focus. We suggest that
instruments such as the ultra-centrifuge, and the trajectories of
the men who devise such artefacts, diverge in an interesting way
from other fonns of artefacts and careers in science, metrology and
engineering with which students of science and technology are more
familiar. The instrument systems developed by re
search-technologists strike us as especially general, open-ended,
and flexible. When tailored effectively, research-technology
instruments potentially fit into many niches and serve a host of
unrelated applications. Their multi-functional character distin
guishes them from many other devices which are designed to address
specific, nar rowly defined problems in a circumscribed arena in
and outside of science. Research technology activities link
universities, industry, public and private research or me trology
establishments, instrument-making finns, consulting companies, the
military, and metrological agencies. Research-technology
practitioners do not follow the career path of the traditional
academic or engineering professional."
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