The major challenge to research on hydrocarbon history is the accessibility of archival sources. Among other factors, the restricted access to…
This paper presents the World Energy Council (WEC) as an archive for research on the history of energy. Since its foundation in 1924, this non-…
This article examines how the perils conjured by blackouts in American cities after 1965 became interpreted as a key point of political and…
This personal essay describes light(s) and darkness(es) in Longyearbyen,…
During the 19th C., the Industrial Revolution and technical…
In this special issue, we argue that light(s) and darkness(es) should be understood in their multiplicity, and that they constitute two aspects of…
This essay takes expert assumptions about light preferences as a starting point for a historical inquiry into what I call imagined sociotechnical…
In the British Raj, colonial lighting oscillated between “Tool of Empire” and everyday technology. While the British used modern lighting to…
When oil was found in water depths larger than 150 meters in the North Sea in the 1970s, a new and revolutionary concept was needed to be able to…
