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ICON : Volume 4 (1998)

CONTENTS:

Editorial  
1
The Contributors  
5
Notes for Contributors  
7
Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco
The Social Construction of the Early Electronic Music Synthesizer
 
9
Wolfgang Koenig
Funicular versus Suspension Railways: Swiss Mountain Railway Engineers in Conflict with a Foreign Competing Technology, 1900-1940
 
57
Hellmut Janetschek
Machine Drawing in the Habsburg Patrimonial Lands: 1780-1850
 
66
Peter Piasecki
The Development of Graphic Representation of Brine Pumping Machines and Graduation Houses in the European Saltern Industry
 
76
Jonathan Coopersmith
Pornography and Progress
 
94
Alvin C. Kibel
Literary Responses to Technology: E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops
 
126
Lutz Engelskirchen
Establishing History of Technology as an Academic Discipline in the Federal Republic of Germany after 1945
 
146
Andreas Kahlow
Section, Strain and Stress: The Anatomy of Construction from Leornardo to Modern Times
 
157
Maran Tompkins
Boeing and the history of Industrial Engineering
 
181
Karel Zeithammer
The Czech Steam Locomotive School
 
196
Gábor Palló
Scientist Migration from Hungary
 
210
Ryoichi Koda
Publications in the History of Technology by Japanese Authors, 1993-1995
 
220
Reviews
 

James C. Williams, Energy and the making of modern California 1997

 
227

H. L. Dienel and H. Trischler (eds.), Geschichte der Zukunft des Verkehrs. Frankfurt Main 1997

 
229

H. L. Dienel (ed.), Der Positivismus der Ingenieure. Triumph der Technik in der Krise der Moderne um 1900. Stuttgart 1998

 
231

H. L. Dienel and B. Schmucke (eds.), Mobilität für alle. Stuttgart 1997

 
232

H. Kowar, Mechanische Musik. Eine Bibliographie und eine Erführung in systematische und kulturhistorische Aspekte Mechanischer Musikinstrumente. Vienna 1996

 
233