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Where minds and matters meet : technology in California and the West
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- Creator
- edited by Volker Janssen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley, Calif. : Published for Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, [2012]
- ©2012
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- Physical Details
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- viii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780873282512, 0873282515
- OCLC
- ocn778636602
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Volker Janssen -- Engineering the Golden State, 1900-1930 -- California's Fantasy Future at the 1915 : San Diego Panama-California Exposition / L. Chase Smith -- Hetch Hetchy : Technics, Politics, and Culture in Progressive Era California / Bruce Sinclair -- A Deep Tradition of Computing Technology : Calculating electrification in the American West / Aristotle Tympas -- The Public Relations of Urban Form : Los Angeles Traffic Commission and the Major Traffic Street Plan of 1924 / Matthew W. Roth -- Technology and the West since 1945 -- From the American West to Afghanistan : The Technology of Large Dams and the Issue of Travel / Linda Nash -- Landmark of Death : Safety, Responsibility, and the Question of a Suicide Barrier for the Golden Gate Bridge / Louise Nelson Dyble -- Engineering Gender Revolution : Caltech and the Tensions of Women's Technical Minds / Amy Bix -- Aerospace and Surfing : Connecting Two California Keynotes / Peter Neushul and Peter Westwick -- Transcending Technologies and the Global West -- California Scale : Vision and Subjectivity in Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten / Jason Weems -- "Would Your Answers Spoil My Questions?" : Art and Technology at the RAND Corporation, 1968-1971 / Stephanie Young -- "Time in Place" : Is There a California Style in Aerospace Timekeeping Technologies? / Carlene Stephens -- Of Futures and Fringes : California's Technological Enthusiasts, 1970-1990 / Patrick McCray
Subjects
- Technology -- California -- History.
- Technology -- West (U.S.) -- History.
- Technology -- Social aspects -- California -- History.
- Technology -- Social aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History.
- Technological innovations -- California -- History.
- Technological innovations -- West (U.S.) -- History.
- Politics and culture -- California -- History.
- Politics and culture -- West (U.S.) -- History.
- California -- Intellectual life.
- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.