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PhD History University of Delaware
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According to Wikipedia, David Allen Hounshell is an American academic. He is the David M. Roderick Professor of Technology and Social Change in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Department of History, and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work of the history of research and development and industrial research in the United States, particularly at DuPont.

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From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States (1984) (677)
The nature, sources, and consequences of firm differences in the early history of the semiconductor industry (2000) (272)
Technological Learning for Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies (2004) (180)
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D (1989) (155)
Science and research policy at the end of Moore’s law (2018) (153)
Control of SO2 emissions from power plants: A case of induced technological innovation in the U.S. (2005) (153)
Science and corporate strategy (1988) (152)
Linking induced technological change, and environmental regulation: Evidence from patenting in the U.S. auto industry (2011) (144)
Effect of government actions on technological innovation for SO2 control. (2003) (140)
Learning curves for environmental technology and their importance for climate policy analysis (2004) (115)
Regulation as the Mother of Innovation: The Case of So2 Control (2005) (110)
The Cold War, RAND, and the generation of knowledge, 1946-1962 (1997) (109)
From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. (1985) (103)
Forcing technological change: A case of automobile emissions control technology development in the US (2010) (92)
Science and corporate strategy. Du pont R&D, 1902–1980 (2004) (66)
Continual Corporate Entrepreneurial Search for Long-Term Growth (2006) (61)
Experience curves for power plant emission control technologies (2004) (61)
History and Nanoeconomics in Strategy and Industry Evolution Research: Lessons from the Meiji‐Era Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry (2016) (46)
Wallace H. Carothers and Fundamental Research at Du Pont (1985) (43)
The Medium Is the Message, or How Context Matters: The Rand Corporation Builds an Economics of Innovation, 1946–1962 (2000) (40)
Elisha Gray and the Telephone: On the Disadvantages of Being an Expert (1975) (38)
Technology Innovations and Experience Curves for Nitrogen Oxides Control Technologies (2005) (36)
Rethinking the Cold War; Rethinking Science and Technology in the Cold War; Rethinking the Social Study of Science and Technology (2001) (32)
Regulation and Business Behavior (2005) (31)
Hughesian history of technology and Chandlerian business history: Parallels, departures, and critics (1995) (27)
Uncertainties in Technology Experience Curves for Integrated Assessment Models (2007) (26)
Edison and the Pure Science Ideal in 19th-Century America (1980) (25)
Science and corporate strategy : Du Pont R&D, 1902-1980 (1990) (25)
The Effect of Government Actions on Environmental Technology Innovation: Applications to the Integrated Assessment of Carbon Sequestration Technologies (2004) (20)
Effects of government incentives on wind innovation in the United States (2013) (16)
The Effect of Government Actions on Technological Innovation for SO 2 Control (2001) (15)
Bell and gray: Contrasts in style, politics, and etiquette (1976) (15)
Automation, Transfer Machinery, and Mass Production in the U.S. Automobile Industry in the Post–World War II Era (2000) (14)
INNOVATION IN AUTOMOTIVE EMISSION CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES: GOVERNMENT ACTIONS AND INVENTIVE ACTIVITIES (2004) (11)
Two Paths to the Telephone (1981) (11)
Commentary/On the Discipline of the History of American Technology (1981) (11)
Experience Curves for Environmental Technology and Their Relationship to Government Actions (2003) (9)
Spinning Tales about Japanese Cotton Spinning: Saxonhouse (1974) and Lessons from New Data (2015) (8)
Evolutionary learning methodology: A case study of R&D strategy development (2013) (8)
Public Relations or Public Understanding?: The American Industries Series in Scientific American (1980) (6)
Publisher Correction: Science and research policy at the end of Moore’s law (2018) (5)
Assets, Organizations, Strategies, and Traditions: Organizational Capabilities and Constraints in the Remaking of Ford Motor Company, 1946-1962 (1999) (4)
Scaling Moore’s Wall: A Public-Private Partnership in Search of a Technological Revolution (2015) (4)
Innovation and Technology Policy: Lessons from Emission Control and Safety Technologies in the U.S. Automobile Industry (2007) (4)
The Smithsonian Book of Invention (1980) (4)
Linking Induced Technological Change, Competitiveness and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from Patenting in the U.S. Auto Industry (2007) (3)
Science and Invention (1984) (3)
Strategies of Growth and Innovation in the Decentralized Du Pont Company, 1921–1950 (1995) (2)
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont and R&D, 1902-1980 (1990) (2)
Book Review:Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change Merritt Roe Smith (1977) (1)
A Guide to Manuscripts in Electrical History (1974) (1)
Spinning Tales About Japanese Cotton Spinning: Saxonhouse (1974) Then and Now (2014) (1)
Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: The Singer Sewing Machine in Foreign Markets, 1854-1920 (1977) (1)
After September 11, 2001 (2003) (1)
Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii + 330 pp. $29.95.) (1991) (0)
David E. Nye.America's Assembly Line. xii + 338 pp., illus., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2013. $29.95 (cloth). (2014) (0)
Book Review:Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History Martha Moore Trescott (1981) (0)
Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R. & D., 1902-1980. (1990) (0)
Reflections from the workshop High Tech Entrepreneurship: Implications for Science Policy and Education Jointly organized between the CMU-Portugal Program, PhD Program in Technological Change and Entrepreneurship and the Portuguese Presidency (2007) (0)
Letter from David A. Hounshell to Joshua Lederberg (1986) (0)
Book Reviews: Tools and Trades of America's Past: The Mercer Collection, by Marilyn Arbor, with contributions by John W. Hulbert and James R. Blackaby (1983) (0)
Publisher Correction: Science and research policy at the end of Moore’s law (2018) (0)
Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors. By Charles W. Cheape. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. Pp. xix, 309. $48.50 (1997) (0)
A Note on Martin Campbell-Kelly's "Software as an Economic Activity" and David Mowery's "Commentary" (2000) (0)
Are Programmers Oppressed by Monopoly Capital, or Shall the Geeks Inherit the Earth? Commentary on Nathan Ensmenger & William Aspray, "Software as Labor Process" (2000) (0)
Science and research policy at the end of Moore’s law (2018) (0)
UC Davis Recent Work Title Technology Innovations and Experience Curves for Nitrogen Oxides (2005) (0)
Book Review:Technology in America: A Brief History Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal (1992) (0)
Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America. By David R. Meyer. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xiv, 311 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8018-8471-3.) (2008) (0)
Book Review: Sheffield Steel and America: A Century of Commercial and Technological Interdependence, 1830-1930, by David A. Hounshell (1989) (0)
The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Beginnings to Pennsylvania Station. By Carl W. Condit. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1980. Pp. xvii + 456. $29.95 (1981) (0)
Material Culture of the Wooden Age . Edited by Brooke Hindle. (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1981. 394 pp. $22.50.) (1985) (0)

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