Books written by Thomas P. Hughes
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American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
... 1984); Thomas J. Misa, “Visualizing Invention and Development: Henry Bessemer and Alexander Holley,” paper presented to the Society for the History of Technology, 24 October 1986; Betty Edwards, Drawing on the Right Side of the ...
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American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
59. McCraw , Morgan vs. Lilienthal , p . x . 60. Lilienthal , TVA : Democracy on the March , pp . 2-5 . 61. Thomas K. McCraw , " Triumph and Irony — The TVA , " Proceedings of the IEEE , 64 ( September 1976 ) , 1375 . 62. Ibid . , p .
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Rescuing Prometheus
As McNamara's “greater zeal and self-righteousness set him apart from the other Whiz Kids," Henry Ford II named him company comptroller.” With his formidable intellect and impressive powers of concentration and analysis, McNamara did ...
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Medicine in Virginia: 1607 - 1699
Smith, John, Travels and Works. Edited by Edward Arber. Edinburgh, 1910. 2 vols. Tyler, Lyon G., "The Medical Men of Virginia," William and Mary College Quarterly, XIX (January, 1911), 145-162. Wertenbaker, Thomas J., The First ...
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Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
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 ...
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Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
Demonstrates how technology is more than gadgetry, exploring divergent views on technology, and drawing on literature and art to explain how technology can be built to work with ecological systems.
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Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture
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 ...
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Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects that Changed Our World
With keen insight, Hughes tells these fascinating stories while providing a riveting history of modern technology and the management systems that made it possible.