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Engineering culture and the production of knowledge: An intellectual history of anti -lock braking systems.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Engineering culture and the production of knowledge: An intellectual history of anti -lock braking systems./
Author:	Johnson, Ann.
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 3330.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-01A.
Subject:	Science history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9957090
ISBN:	9780599606111

Engineering culture and the production of knowledge: An intellectual history of anti -lock braking systems.
Johnson, Ann.

Engineering culture and the production of knowledge: An intellectual history of anti -lock braking systems. - 253 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 3330.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2000.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Technological change has formed the core of many theories of economic growth since the late eighteenth century. Consequently, many economists have investigated the causes of technological innovation. However, few of these explanations have examined the roles engineers have played in creating new technologies, particularly when these innovations have emerged from large organizations and corporations, Commonly, the process of engineering has been "black-boxed." To redress this balance, this dissertation investigates the practices of engineers in the development of a group of related devices designed to prevent the wheels of an automobile from locking up.

ISBN: 9780599606111Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.

Engineering culture and the production of knowledge: An intellectual history of anti -lock braking systems.
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520 $a These devices, called antilock braking systems, evolved from instruments designed to measure braking performance and theories created to predict braking characteristics. Engineers invented these tools and presented them to a growing community of practitioners by organizing and attending an increasing number of conferences devoted to skidding and vehicle handling. These machines and models formed the foundation on which the development of antilock braking systems for the commercial market depended.
520 $a Starting in 1966, when the first antiskid device was introduced to a very limited market in the United Kingdom, several companies competed to introduce the first skid prevention device. However, in order to appeal to a wide market, systems in the 1960s needed to be both less expensive and more reliable. These two improvements were often at odds with each other. Engineers at corporations defined particular characteristics as design goals and the subsequent antiskid devices represented these choices, leading to the development of an array of different types of devices and systems. Ultimately, the engineers who paid the most attention to developments in instrumentation, vehicle dynamics, and electronics outside their own laboratories produced the most successful devices.
520 $a In the final analysis, the invention of ABS was the product of new instrumental and theoretical knowledge which emerged from an entire community of engineers from different countries, companies, and public agencies. Community and knowledge were co-constructed, as were ideas and things.
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