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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – DOI: DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.01 PDF: Douny_From Pits to Pots The abandoned sites of dyeing pits in the village of Zomkalga in northern-central Burkina Faso show the long-standing economic significance of an indigo industry that was developed by the Maranse in the first half of the 18th century[1] and that…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.02 PDF: Shorey_Making Core Memory In a two-minute clip from the docuseries Moon Machines, two women in white smocks pass a needle back and forth through a matrix of eyelet openings.[1] Sitting under task lamps in a Raytheon facility outside of Boston, they are making “core memory” for…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.03 PDF: Lowengard_Western Travelers The interested bystander is a familiar presence in narratives of information exchange in the early modern period. The observations of expatriates writing home, officials on government-sponsored tours, merchants and traders were constant and often significant components to stories about dissemination of techniques across…
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Technology’s Stories v. 7, no. 2 – DOI: 10.15763/jou.ts.2019.06.13.04 PDF: Mamidipudi_Loom “My marriage is made of gold,” says an elderly weaver from East Godavari. This is a defining statement about a life lived in handloom weaving.[1] It seemed like a non sequitur in a conversation about the effects of the 2008 economic downturn on handloom…
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