Showing posts with label Substructural History of Strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Substructural History of Strategy. Show all posts
Monday, April 28, 2025

Postblogging Technology, January 1955, I: The Crash of '55

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here I am, a young mother and unemployed, like, apparently, very few other women i...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1954: Microelectronics and Music

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  "Micro" indeed. The screencap is the first size comparison for the proximity fuze I've ever seen, which is why I took the sc...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

The Electric City, VII: Normalising Telegraphy

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  So, and as will come as no surprise, I've had the experience of a short work week pulled out from under my feet at something like the ...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954: Gormenghast

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  Just kidding. Today I'm talking about the pioneering nuclear power plant, Calder Hall, not Mervyn Peake's weird 1950 novel about a...
Monday, June 3, 2024

Postblogging Technology, February 1954, I: Howard and Me

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We are finally and securely back in London. It is February, James' appointment is a ...
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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Sweetness, Thorazine, and the Madness of Howard Hughes

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You will be pleased to hear that Reggie's paper went well, with none of the security...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Postblogging Technology, September 1953, I: Scupper me Skull-and-Crossbones!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It was so good to see you in London, and you were so sweet with Nat. McGraw-Hill certain...
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

I Would Run Away to the Air: The British Economy, Montgolfier to 727, II

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  How about that sport history ? Guys, and I do mean "guys," some of us, maybe most of us, are here for the cultural history, for ...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

"I Would Run Away to the Air:" Industrial History of Strategy, Great Britain, and WWII: Preliminary Comments on a Projected Outline

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  Morbid thought for the day: No book is ever finished, except by the author's death. Not that I have that to worry about a posthumous e...
Friday, March 11, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging July 1951, II With Some Public Engagement, Even: MiG Alley

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  In the course of a bit more than a century of aviation, the air has seen its share of  the ancient tradition of deniable war.  For example...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, October 1951: The All-New, High Sodium, Superheated Seawolf

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 If I had to make three arguments for using Newsweek for postblogging, they would be: i) It's in PARC, and the library can get at the st...
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Sunday, January 2, 2022

Postblogging Technology, September 1961, II: Production Bottlenecks

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  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope this finds you well. You will be glad to know that I followed your advice and ...
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Friday, June 4, 2021

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February, 1951: The Last Days of the Labour Deterrent

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I am using the Parliamentary announcement of orders for the Vickers Valiant , the first of the V-bombers, as a reason to talk about Operatio...
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Friday, March 29, 2019

Austerity, The Barrier Fortresses and the Pretender: Another Visit to 1745

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In this modern age of computer-assisted scheduling and twenty-four operations,you can be sure that if you mention that your schedule viol...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Soap, Ash and Hope Chests: The Iron Age Revival of the State

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It was, perhaps, just before Year 1 of the New Era of Ramesses XI , the age of the Whm Mswt , the Era of the Renaissance, that the foreigne...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Nimrod Was The First Of Those Who Were Mighty On the Earth: The 77mm HV, Technological Progress, And the 1940 Counterfactual

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History is, as I never tire of saying, a floating referent. It's never entirely clear where to start, and, in the case of a counterfa...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Missing the Point: On The Economic Advantages of Eighteenth Century England

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You will notice a "Blog Comment Follow-Up" tag this week. And how! Anyway, this is  Brad Delong  quoting "the mysterious P...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

An Agro-Technical Appendix, V: Evil as Strategy

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Someone had to go and make Rimmer an admiral, didn't they? Unlike apparently every other person on Earth, I've really got no ...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

An Agro-Technical Appendix, III: The American System

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David Hounshell is the David M. Roderick Professor at Carnegie-Mellon and the author of   From the American System to Mass Production, 18...
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Monday, December 5, 2016

An Agro-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1946, II: Bad Food, Bad Land, Bad People

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" The greatest thing since sliced bread ." I'm going to reprise a bit from last week. I still can't get over the fact ...
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