This essay analyses the growth of large technical systems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. For examples, it uses the development of railways in the early nineteenth century and later during the second half of the twentieth century. It also analyzes the problems in developing electric power networks, particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The purpose of the work is to describe large technical systems at the time of their foundation with the emphasis upon their technical configurations. The paper then analyses the adjustments such systems must make when they interface with other enterprises at the time when they cross political, cultural or geographic boundaries. One issue which is highlighted is the prob...
Abstract The essay reviews current research and calls attention to several of the basic characterist...
International audienceThis article deals with the world of French State engineers in the first half ...
International audienceL’irruption du chemin de fer au cours du XIXe siècle en France a permis d’élar...
This essay analyses the growth of large technical systems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
In this article, large technical systems (LTSs) are analyaed from three perspectives. First, the glo...
Among the innovations in technologies of transport and of information that have succeeded each other...
The birth of a large scale technological system, le chemin de fer en France from the 1830s to 1870s....
L'électricité est aujourd'hui employée pour de nombreuses formes de mobilité et nombreux sont les pr...
Abstract This article analyses the effects of emergence and development of electricity on the organi...
Abstract Foreign technologies took a prominent part in the electrification of french railway Compani...
Revolutions in technologies of exchange are regularly associated with new visions of the world, deve...
International audienceDrawing on evidence from the world of French state engineers in the first half...
Abstract The essay reviews current research and calls attention to several of the basic characterist...
International audienceThis article deals with the world of French State engineers in the first half ...
International audienceL’irruption du chemin de fer au cours du XIXe siècle en France a permis d’élar...
This essay analyses the growth of large technical systems in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
In this article, large technical systems (LTSs) are analyaed from three perspectives. First, the glo...
Among the innovations in technologies of transport and of information that have succeeded each other...
The birth of a large scale technological system, le chemin de fer en France from the 1830s to 1870s....
L'électricité est aujourd'hui employée pour de nombreuses formes de mobilité et nombreux sont les pr...
Abstract This article analyses the effects of emergence and development of electricity on the organi...
Abstract Foreign technologies took a prominent part in the electrification of french railway Compani...
Revolutions in technologies of exchange are regularly associated with new visions of the world, deve...
International audienceDrawing on evidence from the world of French state engineers in the first half...
Abstract The essay reviews current research and calls attention to several of the basic characterist...
International audienceThis article deals with the world of French State engineers in the first half ...
International audienceL’irruption du chemin de fer au cours du XIXe siècle en France a permis d’élar...