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The Development of large technical systems
Hughes, Thomas Parke., Mayntz, Renate.
Year: 1988.
Publisher:  Campus Verlag. 
© Renate Mayntz and Thomas Hughes
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Foreword
1. Large technical systems: Concepts and issues
2. The emergence of an early large-scale technical system: The American railroad network
3. The evolution of the technical system of railways in France from 1832 to 1937
4. The development of the German railroad system
5. Looking for the boundaries of technological determinism: A brief history of the U.S. telephone system
6. The telephone in France 1879 to 1979: National characteristics and international influences
7. The politics of growth: The German telephone system
8. The United States air traffic system: Increasing reliability in the midst of rapid growth
9. The French electrical power system: An inter-country comparison
10. The dynamics of system development in a comparative perspective: Interactive videotex in Germany, France and Britain
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Title: The Development of large technical systems : Renate Mayntz, Thomas P. Hughes (editors).
Author: Hughes, Thomas Parke; Mayntz, Renate
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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2008
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Source Version: The Development of large technical systems : Renate Mayntz, Thomas P. Hughes (editors). 
Hughes, Thomas Parke, Mayntz, Renate
Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 1988.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01147
Subject Headings: • Technology -- France -- History
• Technology -- Germany -- History
• Technology -- United States -- History
Notes: • Papers from a conference held at Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany, Nov. 1987.
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