The Development of large technical systems / Renate Mayntz, Thomas P. Hughes (editors).

Frankfurt am Main : Campus Verlag ; Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1988.

299 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Papers from a conference held at Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany, Nov. 1987.

Large technical systems : concepts and issues / Bernward Joerges -- The emergence of an early large-scale technical system : the American railroad network / Stephen Salsbury -- The evolution of the technical system of railways in France from 1832 to 1937 / Francois Caron -- The development of the German railroad system / G. Wolfgang Heinz and Heinrich H. Kill -- Looking for the boundaries of technological determinism : a brief history of the U.S. telephone system / Louis Galambos -- The telephone in France 1879 to 1979 : national characteristics and international influences / Catherine Bertho-Lavenir -- The politics of growth : the German telephone system / Frank Thomas -- The United States air traffic system : increasing reliability in the midst of rapid growth / Todd La Porte.

The French electrical power system : an inter-country comparison / Maurice LØevy-Leboyer -- The dynamics of system development in a comparative perspective : interactive videotax in Germany, France and Britain / Renate Mayntz and Volker Schneider.

Includes bibliographies.

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