Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1999)

The following compilation is the thirty-seventh annual bibliography of current publications in the history of technology. Previous bibliographies in this series have appeared in Technology and Culture since 1964. The reader is also referred to the fifth publication of the SHOT Monograph Series, Eugene S. Ferguson’s Bibliography of the History of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.: SHOT and MIT Press, 1968). This is the last Current Bibliography to appear in printed form. Henceforth this bibliography will be available chiefly in electronic form through the History of Science, Technology and Medicine database, which has been hosted since March 1992 on the Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN). The HSTM file provides on-line access to citations from the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology since the 1987 volume. Many academic institutions and libraries subscribe to this database, and individual members of the Society for the History of Technology also have free access to it; for instructions, please consult the SHOT homepage hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press on the World Wide Web . For others, information on personal or institutional RLIN accounts is available through the RLIN Information Center at 800-537-7546 (U.S. and Canada) or the homepage of the Research Libraries Group . The Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine are also represented in the HSTM file. Users of the database can obtain from me a copy of the subject thesaurus for the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology. We intend to accommodate readers who prefer to browse the bibliography on paper with a printable version that can be downloaded via the Technology and Culture website; details will be forthcoming via the SHOT Newsletter. I would like to thank the contributors to the bibliography: Guillaume de Syon, Michael Friedewald, Katalin Harkányi, and Ian Winship. Readers willing to scan a selected set of journals or keep track of publications in one of the subfields of the history of technology should contact me, as additional contributors are welcome and needed. I hope that a few members of the Society for the