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1 HISTORY, SCIENCE & SOCIETY in the solar assemblage Dr. Jamie Cross Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh

2 GLOBAL HISTORIES Bell Laboratories, United States 1954

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4 HUMIDITY & THE TROPICS

5 ‘What to do with our new baby?’ - Daryl Chapin

6 “We must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas.” - Harry S. Truman 1949 ‘DEVELOPMENT’

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8 WEST AFRICA

9 GONDEL, NIGER 1968

10 1973 THE SAHEL

11 1973 CORSICA, FRANCE

12 1978 KONI & NABASSO, MALI

13 THE FIELD LABORATORY

14 DETERIORATIONORGANISATION

15 “Technical objects have political strength…They may change social relationships but they also stabilize, naturalise, depoliticise and translate these into other media… technical objects build our history for us.” - Madelaine Akrich (1992) HISTORY, SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

16 THE 100 th OBJECT


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