Tropicalizing the Portable Radio
During the Second World War, the U.S. military found that fungal growth put its portable radio equipment out of use at an alarmingly fast rate in the tropics. This paper follows radio engineers and biologists as they made sense of “‘tropical deterioration” and devised techniques of “tropicalization”...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147468 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5778-6337 |