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reverse salient: a standalone construct

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History of technology

a component of an expanding technological system that lags behind the others and holds back the growth of the whole, attracting inventive effort.

In history of technology, reverse salient refers to a component of an expanding technological system that lags behind the others and holds back the growth of the whole, attracting inventive effort. This meaning comes from Hughes (1983) in Networks of power: Electrification in Western society, 1880-1930.[1]

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component3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs effort2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs growth4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Hughes, T. P. (1983). Networks of power: Electrification in Western society, 1880-1930. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801846144

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