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Part 1 Do technologies have trajectories: the life and death of anaircraft - a network analysis of technical change, John Law and MichelCallon; what's in a patent?, Geof Bowker; the social construction offluorescent lighting, or how an artifact was invented in its diffusionstage, Wiebe E. Bijker. Part 2 Strategies, resources and the shaping oftechnology: controversy and closure in technological change -constructing "steel", Thomas J.Misa; closing the ranks - definition andstabilization of radioactive wastes in the U.S. atomic energycommission, 1945-1960, Adri de la Bruheze; artifacts and frames ofmeaning - Thomas A. Edison, his managers, and the cultural constructionof motion pictures, W. Bernard Carlson. Part 3 What next/ - technology,theory and method: the de-scription of technical objects, MadeleineAkrich; where are the missing masses? the sociology of a few mundaneartifacts, Bruno Latour; a summary of a convenient vocabulary for thesemiotics of human and nonhuman assemblies, Madeleine Akrich and BrunoLatour; technology, testing, text - clinical budgeting in the U.K.National Health Service, Trevor Pinch et al; postscript - technology,stability and social theory, John Law and Wiebe E.Bijker.