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 established a threefold educational objective for the journal: "to promote scholarly research into the history of technology, to demonstrate the connections between technology and other aspects of culture, and to make these knowledge elements accessible and understandable to the educated citizen."