Once More to the Mountain
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Author(s)
McFarland, Charles W.
Williams, Rosalind H
Date Issued
July 2011
Journal
Technology and Culture
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Citation
Williams, Rosalind H., and Charles W. McFarland. “Once More to the Mountain.” Technology and Culture 52, 3 (2011): 441–458 © 2011 The Society for the History of Technology
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Abstract
A half-century after a 1959 family vacation in the Bernese Alps, an American brother and sister repeat the trip as an homage to their now-deceased parents. As they do, family memories become intertwined with more general observations about the history of technology—not only visible and obvious differences in material devices and systems over fifty years, but also more pervasive if less visible changes involving American manufacturing, the political and military priorities of the cold war, and envirotechnical changes affecting even high mountains. Ultimately the trip reaffirms the significance of continuity as well as change in understanding both personal and collective history.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
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https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0099
