Title & Author:

Where minds and matters meet : technology in California and the West / edited by Volker Janssen.

Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Published for Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, ©2012.

Description:

viii, 391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Western histories ; 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Volker Janssen -- Engineering the Golden State, 1900-1930 -- California's Fantasy Future at the 1915 : San Diego Panama-California Exposition / L. Chase Smith -- Hetch Hetchy : Technics, Politics, and Culture in Progressive Era California / Bruce Sinclair -- A Deep Tradition of Computing Technology : Calculating electrification in the American West / Aristotle Tympas -- The Public Relations of Urban Form : Los Angeles Traffic Commission and the Major Traffic Street Plan of 1924 / Matthew W. Roth -- Technology and the West since 1945 -- From the American West to Afghanistan : The Technology of Large Dams and the Issue of Travel / Linda Nash -- Landmark of Death : Safety, Responsibility, and the Question of a Suicide Barrier for the Golden Gate Bridge / Louise Nelson Dyble -- Engineering Gender Revolution : Caltech and the Tensions of Women's Technical Minds / Amy Bix -- Aerospace and Surfing : Connecting Two California Keynotes / Peter Neushul and Peter Westwick -- Transcending Technologies and the Global West -- California Scale : Vision and Subjectivity in Charles and Ray Eames's Powers of Ten / Jason Weems -- "Would Your Answers Spoil My Questions?" : Art and Technology at the RAND Corporation, 1968-1971 / Stephanie Young -- "Time in Place" : Is There a California Style in Aerospace Timekeeping Technologies? / Carlene Stephens -- Of Futures and Fringes : California's Technological Enthusiasts, 1970-1990 / Patrick McCray.

ISBN:

9780873282512 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0873282515 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Technology California History.
Technology West (U.S.) History.
Technology Social aspects California History.
Technology Social aspects West (U.S.) History.
Technological innovations California History.
Technological innovations West (U.S.) History.
Politics and culture California History.
Politics and culture West (U.S.) History.
Technologie Californie Histoire.
Innovations Californie Histoire.
Politique et culture Californie Histoire.
Intellectual life.
Politics and culture.
Technological innovations.
Technology.
Technology Social aspects.
California Intellectual life.
West (U.S.) Intellectual life.
Californie Vie intellectuelle.
California.
West United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Janssen, Volker (Historian), editor.
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
Western histories ; 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282627
Call No.: BIB 220314
Status: Available