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1998
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David Edgerton et al., « De l'innovation aux usages. Dix thèses éclectiques sur l'histoire des techniques », Annales (documents), ID : 10.3406/ahess.1998.279700
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From innovation to use: ten eclectic theses of the historiography of technique. D. Edgerton. In this paper I put forward ten theses which, if accepted, would give one a very different perspective on the history of technique from that found in popular (and a great many academic) works. The over-arching argument of the paper is that most (Anglo-Saxon) historiography of technology is concerned with innovation rather than technology. A consistent failure to differentiate the two, leads to very unfortunate results. The theses are eclectic in two senses. First, they are largely concerned with modern technology. Second, they are drawn from a number of different, and all too often disjointed, traditions of thinking about the role of technology in history. In presenting theses I have tried to make explicit some tacit rules of thumb and craft knowledge; to differentiate concepts which are unhelpfully conflated; and, to define important but often confused and confusing concepts clearly.
