Elmer Sperry - Inventor and Engineer

Informationen zum Autor Thomas P. Hughes is professor of the history of modern science and technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Changing Attitudes toward American Technology and Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 . Klappentext "Awarded the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology." "Superb... In this careful study of a single inventor! Hughes has done more to demonstrate the questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined."-- "Technology and Culture." Softshell Books.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Parke Hughes, Thomas Parker Hughes
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.1993
• EAN: 9780801847561
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-4756-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology; Johns Hopkins Studies in the H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; USA, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), United States of America, USA, Engineering: general