Exposing Electronics (review)

Technological artifacts have long served an educational role in museums. Artifacts are important also in scholarly investigation of the past, especially when they are viewed not in isolation but as material expressions of the forces that interacted to produce a technological system. Bernard Finn's Exposing Electronics is the second volume in a series--sponsored by the Deutsches Museum, the Science Museum of London, and the Smithsonian Institution--dedicated to illustrating object-oriented historiography. The subject of this volume, it might be argued, is the characteristic technology of the twentieth century. Electronics made possible radio and television broadcasting, long-distance telephony, sophisticated control systems, digital computers, revolutionary scientific and medical devices, and a great variety of consumer products

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