Useful Knowledge Changes Hands
Science Technology and Modern Routines
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Beschreibung
Knowledge changed daily life less through a single breakthrough than through the people who made it useful.
A practical innovation rarely travels directly from a famous experiment to an ordinary home. Teachers, mechanics, nurses, manufacturers, inspectors, and consumers translate knowledge into tools and habits. This history traces that process across the modern era, showing how scientific authority was made visible in ordinary objects and public services. It reveals why convenience, expertise, and inequality have long been intertwined.
Autor*in
Ryan Holloway
Writes investigative nonfiction about hidden industries, economic power, and forgotten American infrastructure.
Themen in »Useful Knowledge Changes Hands«
science and technology history practical knowledge modernity invention and public life history of scientific authority everyday technology society modern public services