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Essay Review : Technology and History

There is a notable dearth of speculative literature about the history of technology. Most of the very substantial research which has already been published in this expanding sub-section of historical studies has been concerned with the fundamental task of recording and elucidating particular events or themes in the development of technology. This was the case with the five-volume Oxford History of Technology, published between 1954 and 1958, which did much to establish the parameters of the subject as a field of study, if not as an academic