In its inaugural issue, editor Melvin Kranzberg set out a threefold educational mission for the journal: "to promote the scholarly study of the history of technology, to show the relations between technology and other elements of culture, and to make these elements of knowledge available and comprehensible to the educated citizen."
In its inaugural issue, editor Melvin Kranzberg set forth a threefold educational goal for the journal: "to advance scholarly research into the history of technology, to illuminate the connections between technology and other cultural elements, and to make these intellectual concepts accessible to the educated citizenry."