Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Communities, Innovation, and Knowledge -- 2. Inventing a Community -- 3. Adopting, Adapting, Departing: Early STM at IBM and at Bell Labs -- 4. Variation and Selection: Probe Microscopy Comes to California -- 5. Digital Instruments: Commercialization in a Changing Community -- 6. Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology
Summary
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools
