Browsing by Subject "history of technology"
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All That is Solid Melts into Air Travel: Environments, Technologies, and the Modern Nation at Trans-Canada Air Lines
(2019)This dissertation explores how Trans-Canada Air Lines (1937-1965) built, maintained, and subverted what I call the “modern envirotechnical nation” in its public-facing discourse. Euro-Canadian national identity in the ... -
Images of Place in American Spaceflight, 1958 - 1974
(2019)This project is a cultural history of images of place in the American space programs of the 1960s, focused on images of Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where the actual launches of rockets took place, and the Manned Spacecraft ...