Latest
Pascal Bohulu Mabelo, 2023, Infrastructure for Africa — A Story of Elephants, in: PM World Journal
Ballim, 2023, Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
Charitos, et al. (eds.), 2023, Big Science in the 21st Century: Economic and societal impacts
SWR, 2023, Die Stadt, die niemals schläft – Hinter den Toren der BASF [film]
Cooper, 2023, The Argentella scandal: why French officials did not make Corsica a nuclear test site in 1960, in: The Nonproliferation Review. “The Argentella protests…show how, in a nuclear-armed democracy, local officials, political activists, and ordinary citizens can shape nuclear-weapons policy.”
Clark and Miescher, 2022, Ghana’s Electric Dreams [film]
ITER: Flying over… and through, 2022 [film] (see also Seife, 2023, World’s largest fusion project is in big trouble, new documents reveal, in Scientific American)
Kuo, 2022, Plan Calcul: France’s National Information Technology Ambition and Instrument of National Independence, in: Business History Review
Miescher, 2022, A Dam for Africa: Akosombo Stories from Ghana
Dinesh C. Sharma, 2022, Indian Innovation, Not Jugaad – 100 Ideas that Transformed India
Tapias Torrado, 2022, Overcoming Silencing Practices: Indigenous Women Defending Human Rights from Abuses Committed in Connection to Mega-Projects: A Case in Colombia, in: Business and Human Rights Journal
Making the COVID-19 Vaccine: A 50,000 Step Process (TIME), 2021 [film]
Drouin, et al., 2021, Megaproject Leaders: Reflections on Personal Life Stories
Roland, 2021, Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War?
Cramer and Hallonsten, 2020, Big Science and Research Infrastructures in Europe
Greene, et al., 2020, Innovation on the Reservation: Information Technology and Health Systems Research among the Papago Tribe of Arizona, 1965–1980, in: Isis
2010-2020
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, 2019, Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence
Kramer, 2019, State Capital and Private Enterprise: The Case of the UK National Enterprise Board
Rottner, 2019, Working at the boundary: Making space for innovation in a NASA megaproject, in: Social Studies of Science
Claessens, 2018, ITER, étoile de la science : petite histoire d’un projet scientifique titanesque (see also book review by Vincent Simoulin, 2019, in: Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances)
Hua and Feng, 2018, 30 Great Inventions of China [华觉明 冯立昇 中国三十大发明]
Logsdon, 2018, Ronald Reagan and the space frontier
Launius and McCurdy, 2017, NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation
Mailland and Driscoll, 2017, Minitel: Welcome to the Internet
l’Extraordinaire Histoire du Concorde, 2016 [film] (see also another film widely available on the internet, British Airways Concorde: 27 Supersonic Years, 2012)
Karel Vereycken, undated, Aérotrain, high speed rail and nuclear technology: the lessons of Jean Bertin (see also an indie rock song featuring the train, Exsonvaldes – L’Aérotrain)
Owen and Hopkins, 2016, Science, the State and the City: Britain’s Struggle to Succeed in Biotechnology
Block and Keller (eds.), 2015, State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technology Development
Miao, et al., 2015, Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes: Technopoles of the world revisited
Quivik, 2013, Cooling mass concrete: Owyhee, Hoover, and building large dams, in: Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering History and Heritage
Zhang Jianfang, 2013, A Detailed Chronological Record of Project 523 and the Discovery and Development of Qinghaosu (Artemisinin) (see also Hsu, 2006, Reflections on the ‘discovery’ of the antimalarial qinghao, in: British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology)
Gomez, 2013, Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America (a telling analysis of the impacts of Johns Hopkins University on communities adjacent to the campus)
Grubler and Wilson (eds.), 2013, Energy Technology Innovation: Learning from Historical Successes and Failures
Isaacman and Isaacman, 2013, Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007
Kemp, 2013, The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas, vol 1
Kolb, 2013, The Natural Gas Revolution: At the Pivot of the World’s Energy Future
Krige, et al., 2013, NASA in the World: Fifty Years of International Collaboration in Space
Lankester, 2013, The Politics and Economics of Britain’s Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair
Agar, 2012, Science in the 20th Century and Beyond (¨Cold War Spaces¨)
Hilton, 2012, The engineers and the urban system, 1968-1974 (MIT)
Brunn (ed.), 2011, Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects
Meersohn and Hansen, 2011, ‘The rise of Chinese challenger firms in the global solar industry’ in: Handbook of Research on Energy Entrepreneurship
Topçu, 2010, L’agir contestataire à l’épreuve de l’atome: critique et gouvernement de la critique dans l’histoire de l’énergie nucléaire en France (1968-2008) (EHESS)
2000-2010
Hecht, 2009, The Radiation of France
Faguet, 2008, The War on Cancer: An Anatomy of Failure, A Blueprint for the Future
McCurdy, 2008, The Space Station Decision: Incremental Politics and Technological Choice
Gourvish, 2006, The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel
Skinner, 2005, BAe 146/RJ: Britain’s Last Airliner (there are a number of other enthusiast-type books on this plane such as Wiklem, 2020, Fighting to Be Heard; and Oliver, 2018, BAe I46 ‘Whisperjet’: Britain’s Most Successful Airliner)
Rettig, 2005, Cancer Crusade: The Story of the National Cancer Act of 1971
Bielenberg, 2003, The Shannon Scheme And the Electrification of the Irish Free State (see also O’Brien, 2017, Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and the Electrification of Ireland)
Foasso, 2003, Histoire de la sûreté de l’énergie nucléaire civile en France (1945-2000): technique d’ingénieur, processus d’expertise, questions de société (Université Lumière Lyon II).
Westwick, 2003, The National Labs: Science in an American System, 1947-1974
Goujon, 2001, From Biotechnology to Genomes: The Meaning of the Double Helix
1990-2000
Jardini, 2000, Out of the Blue Yonder: The Transfer of Systems Thinking from the Pentagon to the Great Society, 1961-1965, in: Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After (ed. Agatha Hughes and Thomas Hughes)
Madison and McCurdy, 1999, Spending without results: lessons from the space station program, in: Space Policy
Abraham, 1998, The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State
Crow and Bozeman, 1998, Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the US National Innovation System
Lewis, 1996, Japanese Policymaking for the International Space Station, in: Japanstudien
Shiraishi, 1996, Re-wiring the Indonesian State, in: Making Indonesia
Pierre Guillaumat, 1995, La passion des grands projets industriels
McCurdy, 1993, Inside NASA
Pielke Jr, 1993, A reappraisal of the Space Shuttle programme, in: Space Policy
Galison and Hevly (eds.), 1992, Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research
Capshew and Rader, Big Science: Price to the Present, in: Osiris
Cohen, 1992, Le Colbertisme high-tech: Économie des Télécom et du grand projet
Guy, 1991, Evaluation of the Alvey Programme for Advanced Information Technology (HMSO) (see also Aldhous, 1991, Alvey lessons unheeded, in: Nature)
Pre-1990
Hughes, 1989, ‘Tennessee Valley and Manhattan Engineer District’, in: American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) [film]. Paul Newman takes a turn as an authoritarian numbskull, General “just give me the bomb” Groves, licking a bunch of over-thinking academics into shape while keeping his superior officers at bay.
Oswald Stevens Nock, 1983, Two Miles a Minute: The Story Behind the Conception and Operation of Britain’s High Speed and Advanced Passenger Trains
Burn, 1978, Nuclear Power and the Energy Crisis: Politics and the Atomic Industry
Jean-Michel Quatrepoint, Jacques Jublin, and Danielle Arnaud, 1976, French ordinateurs: de l’affaire Bull à l’assassinat du plan Calcul
Kohler, 1976, The management of science: the experience of Warren Weaver and the Rockefeller Foundation programme in molecular biology, in: Minerva
Middlemas, 1975, Cabora Bassa
Weinberg, 1968, Reflections on Big Science (Weinberg wrote that he coined the term in 1961)
| Middle East Supply Centre (MESC) Mejcher, 2017, Der Nahe Osten im Zweiten Weltkrieg Heydemann, 2000, The rise of the Middle East Supply Centre, in: War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East Wilmington, 1971, The Middle East Supply Centre Worthington, 1946, Middle East Science: A Survey of Subjects Other Than Agriculture |
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