Changing Perceptions of Repair and Maintenance:: Reflections from the Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Changing Perceptions of Repair and Maintenance:

Reflections from the Oral History of the Electricity Supply Industry in the UK

10.1515/9783839447413.

From the book

The Persistence of Technology

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

The Persistence of Technology:

Rethinking the History of Repair:

MAINTAINING INFRASTRUCTURES

Repairing China’s Power Grid Amidst Perpetual Warfare, 1937–1955

Changing Perceptions of Repair and Maintenance:

Business as Usual:

USERS AND REPAIR

Mud Bricks in a Concrete State:

Maintaining the Mobility of Motor Cars:

Of Buses, Batteries and Breakdowns:

REUSE AND CONSERVATION

A Bargain or a “Mousetrap”?

“Proof of Life”:

OBSOLESCENCE AND DISPOSAL

Mending or Ending?

The Persistence of SS France:

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