Signs of Hubris The Shaping of Wind Technology Styles in Germany, Denmark, and the United States, 1940-1990

摘要

A huge body of scholarship in recent decades has convincingly demon- strated the contingent and contextual character of technological develop- ment, technologies are shaped by social factors and thus "mirror our soci- eties". ~1 Regional and national characteristics of technological developments can often be explained by their embedment in different cultures and envi- ronments. ~2 To describe or explain technological differences, historians of technology have employed the loosely defined concept of "technological style", which in recent years has received growing attention.