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Stuart W. Leslie Collection
The Stuart W. Leslie Collection consists of twenty-nine audiocassettes containing interviews done by Dr. Stuart W. "Bill" Leslie, Professor of History of Science and Technology at John Hopkins University. They were done for his prospective book, Blue Collar Science. Many of the interviewees are faculty and staff at the University of Rochester, while others are prominent Rochester scientists.
Boss Kettering: The Wizard of General Motors
Recipient of the Columbia University prize in American Economic History in honor of Allan Nevins. “The life story of Charles F. Kettering seems unblemished by any episode that would shake anyone’s faith (least of all Kettering’s) in the American Way. ‘America’s most famous and wealthiest engineer’ was hired in 1904 by the National Cash Register Company as an ‘inventor.’ He moved onward and upward to become research chief of General Motors, and when he died in 1958 at 82, he was justly honored for myriad achievements and very rich to boot. Kettering was the great improver of the automobile, the machine that we embraced above all as the fulfillment of the democratic and commerc...
The Cold War and American Science
Annotation -- New Scientist.
The Cold War and American Science
Annotation -- New Scientist.
Boss Kettering
Portrays the life of the engineer and inventor Charles Franklin Kettering, and depicts his career as a researcher for General Motors
Understanding Silicon Valley
This text explores the factors that have made Silicon Valley such a fertile breeding ground for new technologies and new firms. It looks at how its pioneering achievements begana̧nd the forces that have propelled its unprecedented growth.
Laboratory Lifestyles
A generously illustrated examination of the boom in luxurious, resort-style scientific laboratories and how this affects scientists' work. The past decade has seen an extraordinary laboratory-building boom. This new crop of laboratories features spectacular architecture and resort-like amenities. The buildings sprawl luxuriously on verdant campuses or sit sleekly in expensive urban neighborhoods. Designed to attract venture capital, generous philanthropy, and star scientists, these laboratories are meant to create the ideal conditions for scientific discovery. Yet there is little empirical evidence that shows if they do. Laboratory Lifestyles examines this new species of scientific laborator...
World's Fairs in the Cold War
The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the stock-in-trade of world’s fairs. From the 1940s to the 1980s, expositions in the United States and around the world, from Brussels to Osaka to Brisbane, mirrored Cold War culture in a variety of ways, and also played an active role in shaping it. This volume illustrates the cultural change and strain spurred by the Cold War, a disruptive period of scientific and...
Exposing Electronics
This is a book for museum professionals and museology students: for serious historians who want to look beyond their usual documentary sources. It is also for anyone who is intrigued by the electronic devices that are woven into our culture (such as J A Fleming's valve, Earl Bakken's pacemaker or the supercomputers of Seymour Cray) and who sense that they have something to say about their own history. Whilst it is clear that all artefacts have the power to provoke thought, inspire action and arouse passions (as the ability of museum exhibitions to stimulate controversy shows), less well recognised or understood is the value of objects for historical research. In this volume, curators and oth...
