Recent Scholarship
Science and Technology
Bergland, Renée L., “Urania’s Inversion: Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, and the Strange History of Women Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America,” Signs, 34 (Autumn 2008), 75–99.
Foster, Thomas L. “Tim,” “Technology and Leadership: Hyman G. Rickover,” in The Art of Command: Military Leadership fromGeorge Washington to Colin Powell, ed. Harry S. Laver and Jeffrey J. Matthews, 179–208. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 276 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2513-8.)
Goldstein, Daniel, “Outposts of Science,” Isis, 99 (Sept. 2008), 519–46.
Liel, Abbie B., and David P. Billington, “Engineering Innovation at Bonneville Dam,” Technology and Culture, 49 (July 2008), 727–51.
Mouat, Jeremy, and Ian Phimister, “The Engineering of Herbert Hoover,” Pacific Historical Review, 77 (Nov. 2008), 553–84.
Rotenstein, David S., “Towers for Telegrams: The Western Union Telegraph Company and the Emergence of Microwave Telecommunications Infrastructure,” ia: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, 32 (no. 2, 2006), 5–22.
Barnhart, Megan Kathleen, “‘To Secure the Benefits of Science to the General Welfare’: The Scientists’ Movement and the American Public during the Cold War, 1945–1960” (University of California, Berkeley, 2007). Order No. DA3295739.
James, Jeremiah Lewis, “Naturalizing the Chemical Bond: Discipline and Creativity in the Pauling Program, 1927–1942” (Harvard University, 2008). Order No. DA3295923.
Klein, Michael J., “The Rhetoric of Repugnance: Popular Culture and Unpopular Notions in the Human Cloning Debate” (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007). Order No. DA3300053.
Panzaris, Georgios, “Machines and Romances: The Technical and Narrative Construction of Networked Computing as a General-Purpose Platform, 1960–1995” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3302856.
Hitt, David, Owen Garriott, and Joe Kerwin, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xxvi, 520 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-2434-6.)
Nocks, Lisa, The Robot: The Life Story of a Technology. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. xxx, 192 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8018-9071-0.)
Altitude Wind Tunnel at nasa Glenn Research Center: An Interactive History (cd-rom). 2008. (Windows, Mac) 1 cd-rom. (nasa Glenn Research Center, http://history.nasa.gov.)
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