@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0405, TITLE={Inventions and history of technology. Historiographical benchmarks and issues.}, AUTHOR={Cédric Perrin, }, JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, VOLUME={4}, NUMBER={Issue 4}, YEAR={2019}, URL={http://openscience.fr/Inventions-and-history-of-technology-Historiographical-benchmarks-and-issues}, DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2019.0405}, ISSN={2399-8571}, ABSTRACT={This article offers some pertinent reflections as an introduction to the current issue of Technology and Innovation dedicated to “the Invention and History of Technology”. It presents some of the concepts and issues that have marked the evolution of the historiography of the question over the last fifty years.}}