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Dr Jon Agar

Senior Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies

Dr Agar writes on contemporary technologies (mobile phones, ID cards) and the history of modern science and technology. he is currently writing a History of Science in the Twentieth Century - And Beyond for Polity Press.

> jonathan.agar (at) ucl.ac.uk
> phone: 020 7679 3521
> office: 22 Gordon Square, room 3.3

  
Technology also comes with design

 

 

Recent Papers

'What happened in the sixties?' British Journal for the History of Science (2008)41(4), pp.567-600

Books

2003. The Government Machine: a Revolutionary History of the Computer
2003. Constant Touch: a Global History of the Mobile Phone
2001. Alan Turing and the Universal Machine
1998. Science and Spectacle: the Work of Jodrell Bank in Post-war British Culture

Courses

HPSC 2014 Science and Global Citizenship
HPSC 2015 Technology and Global Citizenship

HPSC 3002 Science, Warfare and Peace
HPSC 3004 Dissertation

 

 

 
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