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Hughes, Thomas Parke was born on September 13, 1923 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Hunter Russell and Mary Bronaugh (Quisenberry) Hughes.
(This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obt...)
This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. He was best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, and his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processes. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life. The book won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.
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(Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History o...)
Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.
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( The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputati...)
The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, American Genesis tells the sweeping story of America's technological revolution. Unlike other histories of technology, which focus on particular inventions like the light bulb or the automobile, American Genesis makes these inventions characters in a broad chronicle, both shaped by and shaping a culture. By weaving scientific and technological advancement into other cultural trends, Hughes demonstrates here the myriad ways in which the two are inexorably linked, and in a new preface, he recounts his earlier missteps in predicting the future of technology and follows its move into the information age.
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(Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Cult...)
Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Science.Culture (Paperback)) Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (Science.Culture (Paperback)) by Hughes, Thomas Parke ( Author ) Paperback May- 2005 Paperback May- 13- 2005
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To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons; we speak of "technological progress" in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential. Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an "ecotechnology" that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the "Creator" model of development of the sixteenth century to the "big science" of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment; Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life. Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that "in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences." In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry; it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values.
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Hughes, Thomas Parke was born on September 13, 1923 in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Son of Hunter Russell and Mary Bronaugh (Quisenberry) Hughes.
BME, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1947. Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1953. Doctor (honorary), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2000.
Doctor (honorary), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2001.
Instructor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1951-1954;
assistant professor of history, Sweet Briar (Virginia) College, 1954-1956;
associate professor of history, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1956-1963;
associate professor of history, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1963-1966;
professor of history, Institute Technology, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1969-1973;
member of faculty, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973-1994;
professor of history and sociology of science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973-1994;
Andrew W. Mellon professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1987;
professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1994. Visiting associate professor of history Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1966-1969. Torsten Althin professor Royal Institute Technology, Stockholm, 1985-1990.
Founding research professor Technology University, Darmstadt, Federal Republic Germany, 1986-1987. Visiting Research.prof. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, since 1988.
Visiting professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991, 93, 94-, E.T.H. Zürich, 1997.
( To most people, technology has been reduced to computer...)
(Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History o...)
(This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obt...)
("Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History ...)
(Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Cult...)
( The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputati...)
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Member advisory county Smithsonian Institute, 1984-1990. Committee member Alfred P. SloanTech. Superior vena cava syndrome, since 1994.
Chairman National Research Council committee, since 1996. Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1943-1946. Member Society History of Technology (president 1978-1980, Leonardo da Vinci medal 1984), Society Social Studies Science (Bernal prize 1990), History of Science Society (county 1976-1979), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Agatha Chipley, August 7, 1948. Children: Thomas P. (deceased), Agatha H., Lucian P.