ArgumentConcentrating on the important developments of quantum physics, historians have overlooked other significant forces that shaped interwar physics, like that of technology. Based on the case of piezoelectricity, I argue that interests of users of technics (i.e. devices of methods) channeled research in physics into particular fields and questions relevant for industrial companies and governmental agencies. To recognize the effects of such social forces on physics, one needs to study the content of the scientific activity (both experimental and theoretical) of the researchers within its social and disciplinary contexts. By examining paths of individual scientists along with a study of the research in the field as a whole this paper exposes a range of reasons that led researchers to studies pertinent to technics. In particular, it shows that commercial, social, and military powers shaped interwar research through institutions aimed at fostering technology, some of them newly founded, and by a general view that academic research should help technology, a position that became more common at the time.

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科技对两次世界大战间物理学的塑造：以压电为例

论据专注于量子物理学的重要发展，历史学家忽略了塑造两次世界大战间物理学的其他重要力量，例如技术。基于压电的案例，我认为技术用户（即方法设备）的兴趣将物理学研究引导到与工业公司和政府机构相关的特定领域和问题。要认识到这种社会力量对物理学的影响，需要在其社会和学科背景下研究研究人员的科学活动（实验和理论）的内容。通过研究个别科学家的路径以及对该领域研究的整体研究，本文揭示了导致研究人员进行与技术相关的研究的一系列原因。特别是，