We congratulate the EHL Technology and Culture team with the publication of the January 225 issue.

The issue contains amongst others a publication involving our own group:  “Global histories of technology in worlds of environmental change,” Technology and Culture 66.1 (2025): 11-17

Volume 66, Number 1, January 2025

On The Cover

Cover Essay: How to Interpret Postcards | Lynn Spigel

Roundtable

Roundtable: How to Do Global Histories of Technology in Worlds of Environmental Change | Erik van der Vleuten, Evelien De Hoop, Jonas van der Straeten, Jethron Ayumbah Akallah, Animesh Chatterjee, Matthias Heymann, and Prakash Kumar

 

Research Articles

Telehospitality | Lynn Spigel

The Safari and the Screen: How Visual Technologies Shaped Italian Colonial Narratives | Beatrice Falcucci and Gianmarco Mancosu

 

The Waterwheels of Lizzafusina: Technological Innovation, Patenting, and Practical Necessity in Sixteenth-Century Venice | David Gentilcore

 

Dynamics of Doubt: How ASHRAE Engineers Became Ozone Skeptics, 1974–89 | Abeer Saha

 

Americanization Through Innovation: Polish American Women, Domestic Appliances, and the Household Revolution Debate, 1900–40 | Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

 

The Guild and the Laboratory: Shifting Sensory Regimes at Stockholms Bryggerier, 1890s–1930s | Ingemar Pettersson and Daniel Normark

 

Delivering Airpower: How Innovation in Wartime Foreshadowed Modern Supply Chain Strategies | Peter Dye

 

Book Reviews

Review of Silver “Thieves,” Tin Barons, and Conquistadors: Small-Scale Mineral Production in Southern Bolivia by Mary Van Buren | Kris Lane

 

Review of Water for the People: The Acequia Heritage of New Mexico in a Global Context edited by Enrique R. Lamadrid and José Rivera | Michael Holleran

 

Review of Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan by Ijlal Naqvi | Priyanka Guha Roy

 

Review of Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi | Emily Brownell

 

Review of Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science by Kassandra J. Miller | Irene Calà

 

Review of Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, gender and sex edited by Maria Gerolemou and Giulia Maria Chesi | Colin Webster

 

Review of Surgery & Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 by Elizabeth O’Brien | Jethro Hernández Berrones

 

Review of Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe edited by Anna Toropova and Claire Shaw | Maria Cristina Galmarini

 

Review of Vorhersagen und Kontrollieren: Verhaltenswissen und Verhaltenspolitik in der Zeitgeschichte [Predicting and controlling: Behavioral knowledge and behavioral politics in contemporary history] by Rüdiger Graf | Viola Balz

 

Review of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China by Joseph W. Ho | Xintong Wang

 

Review of Seeking News, Making China: Information, Technology, and the Emergence of Mass Society by John Alekna | Anatoly Detwyler

 

Review of The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East by Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil | Andrea Stanton

 

Review of Transatlantic Radio Dramas: Antônio Callado and the BBC Latin American Service during and after World War II by Daniel Mandur Thomaz | Nelson Ribeiro

 

Review of Bootlegging the Airwaves: Alternative Histories of Radio and Television Distribution by Eleanor Patterson | Christina Dunbar-Hester

 

Review of  No Heavenly Bodies: A History of Satellite Communications Infrastructure by Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren | Isabelle Gouarné

 

Review of The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans by Jason Puskar | Fernando Secomandi

 

Review of Sex Sounds: Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music by Danielle Shlomit Sofer | Susan Schmidt Horning

 

Review of Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory by Doug Reside | Kelly Kessler

 

Review of Energy in the Nordic World by Anna Åberg and Mogens Rüdiger | Peder Anker

 

Review of Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Ran Zwigenberg | James Dunk

 

Review of Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory: Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest by Casey Huegel | William M. Knoblauch

 

Review of Critical Connections: The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge from the Dawn of the Atomic Age to the Present by Lee Riedinger, Al Ekkebus, Ray Smith, and William Bugg | Annamaria Haden

 

Review of Frontier Science: Northern Canada, Military Research, and the Cold War,1945-1970 by Matthew S. Wiseman | Liza Piper

 

Review of The People’s Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Era, and Public Engagement after Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski | Anna Reser

 

Review of Transatlantische Rivalitäten: Deutsche und amerikanische Einstellungen zu Technik, Kultur und Moderne [Transatlantic rivalries: German and American attitudes towards technology, culture and modernity] by Frank Trommler | Philipp Aumann

 

Review of The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region by David Alff | Jeff Schramm

 

Review of La mobilité au cœur du patrimoine: Genève: 120 ans de transports publics entre “Grande Histoire” et petites histoires [Mobility at the heart of heritage: Geneva: 120 years of public transport between “Great History” andsmall stories] by Moreno Berva and Ludovic Maugué with Vincent Kaufmann | Laurent Tissot

 

Review of Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World by Konstantinos Chatzis | Veit Damm

 

Review of From Automated to Autonomous Driving: A Transnational Research History on Pioneers, Artifacts and Technological Change (1950–2000) by Fabian Kröger | Matthew N. Eisler

 

Review of Fahrassistenz: Historische Perspektiven auf automobile Assistenzsysteme [Driving assistance: Historical perspectives on automotive assistance systems] by Silke Zimmer-Merkle | Gian Marco Secci

 

Review of Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic by Lloyd Strickland and Harry Lewis | Samuel McKee

 

Review of Konrad Zuse’s Early Computers: The Quest for the Computer in Germany by Raúl Rojas | Michael Homberg

 

Review of Cultures of Prediction: How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools by Ann Johnson and Johannes Lenhard | David E. Dunning

 

Review of Predicting the Winner: The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting by Ira Chinoy | Alma Steingart

 

Review of Building Sim City: How to Put the World in a Machine by Chaim Gingold | Daniel Whelan-Shamy

 

Review of R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life: Karel Čapek edited by Jitka Čejková | Stefan Poser

 

Review of Vom Verschwinden der Technik [On the disappearance of technology] by David Gugerli | Stefan Krebs

 

Review of From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition by Zachary L. Brodt | Dan Holland

 

Review of The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie Canal by Mark S. Ferrara | Erik Loomis

 

Review of Ingénieurs mais apprentis [Engineers trained by apprenticeship] by Arnaud Pierrel | Norbert Verdier