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Author: Cyrus C. M. Mody (Chair in History of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Maastricht University)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9780262134941
ISBN 10: 0262134942
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 21 October 2011
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product
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Reviews
The title is just right: Mody invites us to consider -- at once and in the same frame -- innovation in a scientific and technological instrument and innovation in organizational forms. The one gives practitioners astounding abilities to represent and intervene at micro-levels; the other permits them to extend the institutional environments in which the instrument can thrive. Instrumental Community is a major achievement. -- Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University This original and absorbing book brings into focus the mutual development of a new instrument -- the scanning tunneling microscope -- and its community of users. Paying close attention to both technical details and social dynamics, Mody offers keen insights on the interfaces between research and commerce, science and engineering, and the genesis of nanotechnology. A story of applied science in action. -- Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University In Instrumental Community, Cyrus Mody provides one of the richest analyses to date of the ways a new tool becomes an obligatory instrument -- and how the instrument and its users evolve in tandem. Like the powerful microscopes at the center of this story, Instrumental Community reveals surprising structures and craggy interfaces: between academic disciplines, corporate laboratories, and heterogeneous networks of researchers; scientific research and commercialization; and hype and hope in the crystallization of nanotechnology. A remarkable achievement. -- David Kaiser, author of Drawing Theories Apart and How the Hippies Saved Physics Mody has shown us what can happen when historical scholarship of the highest quality is applied to an area of science and technology. -- Chris Toumey, Nature Nanotechnology
Mody has shown us what can happen when historical scholarship of the highest quality is applied to an area of science and technology. -- Chris Toumey Nature Nanotechnology
The title is just right: Mody invites us to consider -- at once and in the same frame -- innovation in a scientific and technological instrument and innovation in organizational forms. The one gives practitioners astounding abilities to represent and intervene at micro-levels; the other permits them to extend the institutional environments in which the instrument can thrive. Instrumental Community is a major achievement. -- Steven Shapin, Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University This original and absorbing book brings into focus the mutual development of a new instrument -- the scanning tunneling microscope -- and its community of users. Paying close attention to both technical details and social dynamics, Mody offers keen insights on the interfaces between research and commerce, science and engineering, and the genesis of nanotechnology. A story of applied science in action. -- Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University In Instrumental Community, Cyrus Mody provides one of the richest analyses to date of the ways a new tool becomes an obligatory instrument -- and how the instrument and its users evolve in tandem. Like the powerful microscopes at the center of this story, Instrumental Community reveals surprising structures and craggy interfaces: between academic disciplines, corporate laboratories, and heterogeneous networks of researchers; scientific research and commercialization; and hype and hope in the crystallization of nanotechnology. A remarkable achievement. -- David Kaiser, author of Drawing Theories Apart and How the Hippies Saved Physics
Author Information
Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor and Chair in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He is the author of Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (MIT Press).
