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Title The Development of large technical systems / Renate Mayntz, Thomas P. Hughes (editors)
Published LONDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2019

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Series Publications of the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln ; v. 2
Schriften des Max-Planck-Instituts für Gesellschaftsforschung, Köln ; Bd. 2.
Contents Large technical systems : concepts and issues / Bernward Joerges -- The emergence of an early large-scale technical system : the American railroad network / Stephen Salsbury -- The evolution of the technical system of railways in France from 1832 to 1937 / Francois Caron -- The development of the German railroad system / G. Wolfgang Heinz and Heinrich H. Kill -- Looking for the boundaries of technological determinism : a brief history of the U.S. telephone system / Louis Galambos -- The telephone in France 1879 to 1979 : national characteristics and international influences / Catherine Bertho-Lavenir -- The politics of growth : the German telephone system / Frank Thomas -- The United States air traffic system : increasing reliability in the midst of rapid growth / Todd La Porte
The French electrical power system : an inter-country comparison / Maurice Lévy-Leboyer -- The dynamics of system development in a comparative perspective : interactive videotax in Germany, France and Britain / Renate Mayntz and Volker Schneider
Summary This book is an outcome of the conference on the development of large technical systems held in Berlin in 1986. It focuses on the comparative analysis of the development of large technical systems, particularly electrical power, railroad, air traffic, telephone, and other forms of telecommunication
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes "Renate Mayntz, Professor and Director, Max-Planck-Institut fÃơr Gesellschaftsforschung, Kḻn Thomas P. Hughes, Professor, Dept, of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia."
English
Subject Technology -- United States -- History
Technology -- France -- History
Technology -- Germany -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Technology.
Dienstleistungsbetrieb
Eisenbahnnetz
Geschichte
Großtechnologie
Systementwicklung
Technischer Fortschritt
Technisches System
Telefonnetz
Technische ontwikkeling.
Technologie -- Etats Unis -- Histoire.
Technologie -- France -- Histoire.
Technologie -- Allemagne -- Histoire.
France.
Germany.
United States.
Deutschland
Frankreich
USA
Westliche Welt
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Mayntz, Renate.
Hughes, Thomas Parke.
ISBN 0429309996
9780429309991
9781000315875
1000315878
9781000243994
1000243990
9781000279931
1000279936