Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent
years from historians of science and technology, management
theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence
of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity.
Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism,
heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the
apparent tension between these trends using case studies from
across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
"
The History of Technology" addresses tensions between material
standards and process standards, explores the distinction between
specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and
examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of
standards into 'everyday life'.
Includes the Special Issue "By whose standards? Standardization,
stability and uniformity in the history of information and
electrical technologies"
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