Background
Gilfillan, Seabury Colum was born on April 5, 1889 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Son of Review Joseph A. and Harriet Woodbridge (Cook) Gilfillan.
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- Inventing the ship : a study of the inventions made in her history between floating log and rotorship; a self-contained but companion volume to the author's "Sociology of invention"; with 80 illustrations, bibliographies, notes and index;
- The sociology of invention;: An essay in the social causes of technic invention and some of its social results; especially as demonstrated in the ... to the same author's Inventing the ship
- The sociology of invention : an essay in the social causes of technic invention and some of its social results; especially as demonstrated in the history of the ship. A companion volume to the same author's Inventing the ship.
Seabury Colum Gilfillan
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1910. Master of Arts, Columbia, 1920, Doctor of Philosophy, 1935.
Career
Instructor sociology and economics, Grinnell College, 1924-1926. Curator of transportation and social sciences, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, 1928-1929. Assistant professor of sociology, Purdue University, 1937-1938.
Researcher, President's Research Committee on Social Trends National Resources Committee, National Industrial Conference Board.
Research associate, University of Chicago, on social aspects of invention and patents, and cultural prediction. Lecturer Roosevelt College, 1948-1949.
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Works
book
- Inventing the ship : a study of the inventions made in her history between floating log and rotorship; a self-contained but companion volume to the author's "Sociology of invention"; with 80 illustrations, bibliographies, notes and index;
- The sociology of invention;: An essay in the social causes of technic invention and some of its social results; especially as demonstrated in the ... to the same author's Inventing the ship
- The sociology of invention : an essay in the social causes of technic invention and some of its social results; especially as demonstrated in the history of the ship. A companion volume to the same author's Inventing the ship.
Membership
Member American Sociological Society, Society for Social Study of Inventin (secretary), Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Louise H. Wenzel, September 15, 1922. Children: Barbara Wenzel (Mistress J. C. Crowley), Marjorie West. Acting associate professor of social sciences, University of the South 1921-1924.
