Thomas P. Hughes
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American historian
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- PhD History University of Pennsylvania
- Masters History University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelors History University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Parke Hughes was an American historian of technology. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1953.
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Published Works
- The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (1989) (2520)
- Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (1984) (2142)
- Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society (1984) (1472)
- American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970 (1989) (485)
- The Seamless Web: Technology, Science, Etcetera, Etcetera (1986) (483)
- The Development of Large Technical Systems (2008) (198)
- American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century: The Search for Labour-Saving Inventions (1963) (183)
- The Electrification of America: the System Builders (1979) (138)
- TECHNOLOGICAL MOMENTUM IN HISTORY: HYDROGENATION IN GERMANY 1898–1933 (1969) (137)
- Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture (2004) (132)
- Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World (1998) (100)
- Army, Industry, and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918 (1966) (89)
- Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After (2000) (88)
- Edison: A Biography (1960) (78)
- Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer (1971) (72)
- Lewis Mumford: A Life (1990) (54)
- Guns, Sails, and Empires: Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion 1400–1700 . By Carlo M. Cipolla. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. 192 pp. Illustrations, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $5.00. (1967) (47)
- Complementary Innovations And Generative Relationships: An Ethnographic Study (2000) (45)
- British Electrical Industry Lag: 1882-1888 (1962) (45)
- Technologies of power : essays in honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes (2001) (36)
- Lewis Mumford : public intellectual (1992) (33)
- The Science-Technology Interaction: The Case of High-Voltage Power Transmission Systems (1976) (26)
- HIGH VARIABILITY DISCOURSE IN THE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF LARGE TECHNICAL SYSTEMS (2001) (23)
- The Wind and Beyond: Theodore von Karman, Pioneer in Aviation and Pathfinder in Space (1967) (22)
- Atomic Energy in the Soviet Union (1960) (22)
- Emerging Themes in the History of Technology (1979) (20)
- The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in Sociology and History of Technology (25th Anniversary Edition with new preface) (2012) (19)
- Changing attitudes toward American technology (1975) (16)
- The Genesis of Modern Management: A Study of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. By Sidney Pollard. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1965. Pp. 328. $7.95 (1966) (15)
- Through a Glass, Darkly: Anticipating the Future of Technology-Enabled Education (2001) (14)
- CONSERVATIVE AND RADICAL TECHNOLOGIES (1982) (12)
- Comments on Lynn Eden’s Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, & Nuclear Weapons Devastation (2006) (11)
- Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs. By Albert Speer. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston; introduction by Eugene Davidson. New York: Macmillan, 1970. Pp. xviii + 596. $12.50 (1971) (10)
- Harold P. Brown and the Executioner's Current: an Incident in the AC-DC Controversy (1958) (9)
- Fifteen years of social and historical research on large technical systems. An interview with Thomas Hughes (1996) (8)
- Soviet Research and Development: Its Organization, Personnel, and Funds (1965) (7)
- Convergent themes in the history of science, medicine, and technology. (1981) (7)
- Model Builders and Instrument Makers (1988) (7)
- The development of Western technology since 1500 (1964) (7)
- Thomas Edison, Professional Inventor (1976) (7)
- 12 – Technological History and Technical Problems (1980) (6)
- Technology and public policy: The failure of giant power (1976) (6)
- The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910: Professional Cultures in Conflict. (1969) (5)
- From Firm to Networked Systems (2005) (5)
- Einstein, Inventors, and Invention (1993) (5)
- Selections from Lives of the Engineers: With an Account of Their Principal Works (1966) (4)
- Science and the Instrument-maker: Michelson, Sperry, and the Speed of Light (1976) (3)
- What Has Influenced Computing Innovation? (1999) (3)
- Scientists in the Mainstream: Alan Beyerchen's Scientists under Hitler (1979) (3)
- Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 (1957) (3)
- Lives of the Engineers: Selections from Samuel Smiles (1966) (3)
- SHOT Founders’ Themes and Problems (2009) (2)
- DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, AND REFORMING SYSTEMS (1998) (2)
- Book Review:A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A. D. 1900 T. K. Derry, Trevor I. Williams (1963) (2)
- The Life and Work of Bell. (Book Reviews: Bell. Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude) (1973) (1)
- Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. By David S. Landes. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. xviii + 482 pp. $20.00.) (1985) (1)
- Shaped Technology: An Afterword (1995) (1)
- Technology in Early America: Needs and Opportunities for Study. By Brooke Hindle. (Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Pp. xix, 145. $4.50 (1968) (1)
- The Era of Independent Inventors (1988) (1)
- Alfred D. Chandler Jr., 1918–2007 (2007) (1)
- The Professional Inventor in the Heroic Age: Elmer Sperry in Brooklyn (1984) (1)
- Technology in Western Civilisation. Vol. I: The Emergence of Modern Industrial Society, Earliest Times to 1900. Melvin Kranzberg , Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. (1968) (1)
- Comment on Papers by Robinson and Brittain (1974) (1)
- Lessons From Soviet Science and Technology (2000) (1)
- Conspiracy or Consumer Choice? (2009) (1)
- Book Review:Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the AEG, 1907-1914 Tilmann Buddensieg, Henning Rogge, Gabriele Heidecker, Karin Wilhelm, Sabine Bohle, Fritz Neumeyer, Iain Boyd Whyte (1985) (1)
- Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual (1992) (1)
- Machines and medicine. A projection of analogies between electric power systems and health care systems. (1986) (1)
- Hitler, I.G. Farben, and Synthetic Gasoline (1966) (1)
- MIT architecture and values: Gehry’s Stata and Holl’s Simmons (2008) (1)
- Book Review:Edward Goodrich Acheson: Inventor, Scientist, Industrialist Raymond Szymanowitz (1973) (0)
- Electricity for Rural America: The Fight for the REA. By D. Clayton Brown. Contributions in Economics and Economic History, No. 29. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. Pp. xvi, 178. $22.50 (1981) (0)
- Conceptual Definitions: Order out of Chaos (1977) (0)
- David Edgerton.The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900.xviii + 270 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. $26 (cloth). (2007) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (1990) (0)
- History of Technology (2001) (0)
- Elihu Thomson: Beloved Scientist (1961) (0)
- A Guide to Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition. Part 1 (1850–1878). Edited by Thomas E. Jeffrey. (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985. With microfilm, 28 reels, $1,650.00. Guide published separately, 125 pp., $25.00.) (1986) (0)
- Transport and communication, state-building and transnationality (2011) (0)
- Book Review: Labor and Labor Organizations: The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830–1910: Professional Cultures in Conflict (1969) (0)
- Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies. Michael Adas , George Fredrickson , Theda Skocpol (1991) (0)
- Book Review:The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 William H. McNeill (1984) (0)
- Book Review:Turning Points in Western Technology: A Study of Technology, Science, and History D. S. L. Cardwell (1974) (0)
- Book Review:The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume I: The Making of an Inventor, February 1847-June 1873 Reese V. Jenkins (1990) (0)
- Machines and Medicines: A Projection of Analogies between Electric Power Systems and Health Care Systems (1986) (0)
- Parallelization of SPHC on the Intel iPSC/860 (1993) (0)
- Volume Information (1990) (0)
- Designers and Builders (2008) (0)
- Lusting for the Gratifications of Technology@@@Technological Utopianism in American Culture. (1986) (0)
- Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. Ed. by Thomas P. Hughes and Agatha C. Hughes. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 450 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-506173-X.) (1992) (0)
- Comment on Paper by Brittain and Robinson (1974) (0)
- S. Z. Mitchell and the Electrical Industry. By Sidney Alexander Mitchell. New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. Pp. xiii + 178. $5.00 (1961) (0)
- 2 – Transfer and Style: A Historical Account (1981) (0)
- Oral history interview with Thomas Parke Hughes (1980) (0)
- Book Review:Bottled Energy: Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage Richard H. Schallenberg (1983) (0)
- Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, & Nuclear Weapons Devastation (2016) (0)
- Electric Power in American Manufacturing, 1889–1958. By Richard B. Du Boff. New York, Arno Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv + 249. $20.00 (1981) (0)
- Acceptance (1991) (0)
- Customer Service Games for Training (2018) (0)
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