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Publications

Selected Publications

Books

The Mantra of Efficiency: From Waterwheel to Social Control (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

Articles

“The line between potential and working machines: César Nicolas Leblanc and patent engravings, 1811-1835,” History and Technology 15 (1999): 175-212.

“Efficiency and pathology: mechanical discipline and efficient worker seating in Germany, 1929-1932,” Technology and Culture 47 (2006): 286-310.

“An efficiency of scarcity: using food to increase the productivity of Soviet prisoners of war in the coal mines of the Third Reich,” History and Technology 22 (2006): 391-406.

“Efficiencies of balance: Technical efficiency, popular efficiency, and arbitrary standards in the early progressive era US.” Social Studies of Science 37 (2008): 1-27.

“The Concept of Efficiency,” Anthony Meijers and Ibo van de Poel, eds., Handbook of the Philosophy of the Technological Sciences, Elsevier. Solicited by the editors and forthcoming.