Technology and Culture: The International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology: April 2010; Volume 51, Number 2

The April 2010 issue, Volume 51, Number 2, of Technology and The International Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology, was edited by John M. Staudenmaier and published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Society for the History of Technology. The issue begins with the Da Vinci Medal "Some Thoughts on the Question 'How Do New Things Happen?'" by Susan J. Douglas. It then contains the three "'Perfect Sound Forever': Innovation, Aesthetics, and the Re-making of Compact Disc Playback" by Kieran Downes, "Corpses, Live Models, and Assessing Skills and Knowledge before the Industrial Revolution ( Antwerp)" by Bert De Munck, and "Redefining Charles Goodyear, Patents, and Industrial Control, 1834-1865" by Cai Guise-Richardson. The articles are followed up by the Research Note "Two Classes of British An Analysis of Their Education and Training, 1880s–1930s" by Shin Hirose; the On the Cover article "Metropolis" by Julie Wosk; the Essay "The Invisible Technologies of Goffman's From the Merry-Go-Round to the Internet" by Trevor Pinch; and finally two essays in the NSF Essay "Competing Technologies, National(ist) Narratives, and Universal Toward a Global History of Space Exploration" by Asif A. Siddiqi and "Was the Nuclear Arms Race Deterministic?" by Alex Roland. The issue also has an exhibit review, essay reviews, and book reviews.