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ICON : Volume 7 (2001)

CONTENTS:

Notes for Contributors ix    
The Contributors xi    

W. David Lewis
Divergent Cultures: the American Response to European Dominance in Automobile Racing, 1895 - 1917

   

Margit Mogensen
New Technology for Social Health: the Finsen Lamp at the World Exhibition in Paris 1900

   

Laurent Tourrette
The Strange Case of Dr. Frankenstein and Mr. Rossum: Can Dystopian Literature be Considered as a Response to Technological Breakthroughs ?

   

Maria Ruivo
Instruments and Scientific Culture during the Century of Enlightenment

   

Frederik Nebeker
The Emergence of Biomedical Engineering in the United States

   

Martina Hessler
Educating Men how to Develop Technology: the Role of Professional Housewives in the Diffusion of Electronical Domestic Appliances in the Inter - War Period in Germany

   

Ana Paula Silva
Shaping the Portuguese Empire in the Twentieth Century: the Telegraph and the Radio

   

Amelia Taveira
The Emergence of the Portuguese Nuclear Council (JEN), 1952 - 1961

   

L'udovit Hallon
Systematic Electrification in Germany and in Four Central Europe states in the Interwar Period