Inventing Accuracy

A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance

von Donald Mackenzie

480 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"Mackenzie has achieved a masterful synthesis of engrossing narrative, imaginative concepts, historical perspective, and social concern."Donald MacKenzie follows one line of technology—strategic ballistic missile guidance through a succession of weapons systems to reveal the workings of a world that is neither awesome nor unstoppable. He uncovers the parameters, the pressures, and the politics that make up the complex social construction of an equally complex technology.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Naturwissenschaften, allgemein Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie
• ISBN: 9780262631471
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.01.1993
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: MIT Press