Disciplined Imagination: The Life and Work of Tom and Agatha Hughes / John M. Staudenmaier -- Introduction: Authority, Political Machines, and Technology's History / Gabrielle Hecht and Michael Thad Allen -- The Telephone as Political Instrument: Gardiner Hubbard and the Formation of the Middle Class in America, 1875-1880 / W. Bernard Carlson -- Culture and Technology in the City: Opposition to Mechanized Street Transportation in Late-Nineteenth-Century America / Eric Schatzberg -- The Hidden Lives of Standards: Technical Prescriptions and the Transformation of Work in America / Amy Slaton and Janet Abbate -- Engineering Politics, Technological Fundamentalism, and German Power Technology, 1900-1936 / Edmund N. Todd -- Modernity, the Holocaust, and Machines without History / Michael Thad Allen -- Technological Systems, Expertise, and Policy Making: The British Origins of Operational Research / Erik P. Rau -- Technology, Politics, and National Identity in France / Gabrielle Hecht -- The Neutrality Flagpole: Swedish Neutrality Policy and Technological Alliances, 1945-1970 / Hans Weinberger.