Can a museum transcend traditional narratives on technological change? Read about the success of the Catalan Olive Oil Museum in avoiding top-down narratives and missed opportunities to address the complexity of concepts such as quality and subaltern knowledge.

What is "processed" food? "Unearthing Technology in Public Histories of Food" by Xaq Frohlich challenges historians to rethink food technology and innovation, using public histories to highlight invisible labor in food prep and tell object-centered stories that people hunger for.

What role did historical knowledge play for nineteenth-century hydraulic engineers? Giacomo Bonan's article, "Hydraulic Engineers and Antiquarians," analyses the management of Venetian waters through the porous boundary between scientific and humanistic cultures.

Another Technology & Culture article for you: In “Atomville: Architects, Planners and How to Survive the Bomb,” Arthur Molella and Robert Kargon examine architects and planners’ reactions to the threat to U.S. cities, looking at architect Paul Laszlo’s planned city, “Atomville.”

Some Soviet women gained fame as cosmonauts. Others worked on the atomic bomb project. Yet within a few years of the USSR’s collapse, Russia seemingly forgot the contribution women had made to national defense...