01945    a2200277   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001500151072001300166072001300179072002100192072002100213072001700234100001700251245002500268250000600293260002400299300001000323520131900333999001501652905823057020250317100359.0250312042000xx                   eng    a9789058230577  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 46.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aTHR2thema7 aTJF2thema7 aTHR2bic7 aTJF2bic7 aTEC0080002bisac7 aTEC0090202bisac7 a621.32bisac1 aBernard Finn10aExposing Electronics  a1  bCRC Pressc20001221  a216 p  bIt is clear that artifacts have the power to provoke thought, inspire action and arouse passions. There is evidence of this in the ever-increasing number of museums as well as in the ability of those museums to stimulate controversy through exhibits. As a consequence, much has been written analyzing the interaction between objects and museum visitors. Less well recognized, or understood, is the value of objects for historical research. In this series of books we propose to show by example how artifacts can be employed in the study of the history of science and technology in ways ranging from motivating a line of research to providing hard evidence in the solution of an otherwise insoluble problem. The first volume focused on medicine; in this, the second volume, the topic our authors address is electronics. As readers will discover, there is considerable scope in the range of topics and in the range of uses of artifacts. There is also a section that suggests to readers what kind of questions they might consider when they visit electrical exhibits, and where those exhibits are to be found.

This series is sponsored by the Deutsches Museum in Munich, the Science Museum in London, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, with help from professional historians in other museums and elsewhere.  c1015d1015