![]() ![]() Virtually unknown to historians-yet central to urban risk management-fire-alarm technology emerged as a material contract between authoritarianism and liberalism in the nineteenth century. ![]() Unlike most histories of risk that do not analyze the design and use of risk technologies, this study unpacks how such technologies embody norms and structure governance. The fire alarm telegraph, hailed by contemporaries as revolutionary technology in the nineteenth century, offers detailed insight into the technopolitics of risk, a yet uncharted territory. Historian of technology Gabrielle Hecht once described technopolitics as the strategic pursuit of political goals through technology's design and use. ![]()
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