Carroll Pursell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1007443 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carroll Pursell |
| NOMBRES | Carroll |
| APELLIDO | Pursell |
| FIRMA | PURSELL C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 81 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Policy Dialogue
The rise of online learning over the past few decades has raised fundamental questions about the kinds of “spaces” and “places” this mode of education creates. Do they support meaningful exchanges? Can they advance educational equity, access, and community-building? Are they comparable to in-person classroom experiences? The recent COVID pandemic and the global turn toward virtual learning in response have brought such questions into sharp relief…
Carly A. Kocurek. Coin-Operated Americans
According to Carly A. Kocurek, her scholarly interests are technology, gender, and popular culture, and it is in this matrix that she forms the key question to be answered by this book: “When, and how, did video gaming come to be seen as the exclusive domain of young men?” (xiii). Her methodology in Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade is a mix of descriptive history (for example, chapter 4 traces attempts to regula…
From Playgrounds to PlayStation
Matthew Wisnioski. Engineers for Change
Journal Article Matthew Wisnioski. Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America. Get access Matthew Wisnioski. Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America. (Engineering Studies series.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2012. Pp. xvii, 286. $35.00. Carroll Pursell Carroll Pursell Australian National University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Hist…
The Safe and Rational Children’s Playground
Between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries the evolution of playgrounds in the United States was shaped by both ideology and technology. Advocates agreed that playgrounds should control and instruct children, but disagreed on the way to accomplish those goals: the extreme positions marked by a commitment to the principles of ‘Efficiency’ or the ideal of recreation. The technology of playgrounds, both the sites and the equipment,…
Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production
Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production Carroll W. Pursell (bio) Some thirty years ago I was reading an anthology of American tall tales, and it struck me that the folk heroes who were celebrated could be categorized in various ways: by sex, by race, by century, by their occupations and the scenes of their incredible feats.1 Three in particular shared a striking convergence. In the story of Old Stormalong, the whaling captain with the ov…
The Shock of the Old
Reviewed by: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 Carroll W. Pursell (bio) The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. By David Edgerton . New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 Pp. xviii+270. $26. On 2 May 2007, CNN.com carried the headline "Train Carrying Shuttle Rockets Derails." Such a juxtaposition of Robert Stephenson and Robert Goddard would probably appeal to David Edgerton. In his important …
Engineering Organization and the Scientist in World War I
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, there was no elaborate framework for providing scientific advice to the government. Engineers and scientists struggled to find an appropriate mechanism, but the former found themselves subordinated to a scientific community which sought to dominate emerging structures. At stake was not merely the credit for helping win the war, but also an advantage in the coming postwar definition and expansion…
A Companion to American Technology
A Hammer in Their Hands
Scholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the work of the skilled artisan and the ingenuity of the self-taught inventor. Although denied access through most of American history to many new technologies and to the privileged education of the engineer, African-Americans have been engaged with a range of technologies, as makers and as users, since t…
An Interregnum
Research Article| July 01 1999 An Interregnum Carroll Pursell Carroll Pursell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1999) 21 (3): 181–184. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378970 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Carroll P…
Domesticating modernity
For over half a century, from 1924 to 1986, the Electrical Association for Women (EAW) worked to modernize the British home by bringing the blessings of labour-saving appliances to the aid of British women. Adopting a strategy of facilitation, the EAW sought, on the one hand, to educate women about electricity and its advantages in the home, encourage them to demand greater access to that electricity and keep them abreast of new developments in a…
Beyond Engineering
Reviewed by: Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology* Carroll Pursell (bio) Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology. By Robert Pool. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+358; notes, index. $30. This is a volume in the Sloan Technology Series and, like most of the others, is written not by a scholar but by a “writer,” in this case a former senior writer at Science and former news editor at Nature. The res…
Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology
In Memoriam
In Memoriam MELVIN KRANZBERG (1917-1995) Spring of 1977 brought the NCAA basketball finals to Atlanta the same week that Mel welcomed me as his house guest. He celebrated my first evening with a party, wanting his circle of friends to meet the young man who was writing a dissertation on Technology and Cul ture and had come for research in thejournal’s files. Next morning, Mel set me up at a work table, gave me access to the Xerox machine, and le…
The Machine in America
Journal Article The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. By Carroll Pursell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xviii, 358 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-4817-2. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8018-4818-0.) Get access John M. Jordan John M. Jordan Harvard, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Page 1539, https://doi.o…
White Heat
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Volume Three The Transmission of Power
Millikan's School
"Am I a Lady or an Engineer"? The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940
“Am I a Lady or an Engineer?” The Origins of the Women’s Engineering Society in Britain, 1918—1940 CARROLL PURSELL Early in 1919 a group of educated and ambitious British women, recently engaged in munitions work, founded the Women’s Engineer ing Society (WES) to protect their interests against attempts to force them out of the engineering trades. The society was immediately confronted with deep and abiding problems of liminality. They had, firs…
The Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985
Aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique, le debat sur une technologie d'auto-suffisance et respectueuse de la nature, ne principalement apres la defaite americai- ne au Vietnam, a disparu avec l'evolution, tant politique que culturelle, de l'idee de remasculinisation de la societe, dogme represente par le president Reagan et par Rambo selon l'A
"Am I a Lady or an Engineer?" The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940
Preservation Technologies
Research Article| July 01 1991 Preservation Technologies: As Answers Get Easier, Questions Remain Hard Carroll Pursell Carroll Pursell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1991) 13 (3): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378557 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cit…
Power from Steam
Making Weapons, Talking Peace
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 901 The book will be of most interest to military historians, for whom it raises several stimulating if not fully developed ideas. O’Connell traces the rise and fall of “transnational tyrannies”—Sumer, Assyria, Persia, Macedonia, Rome, the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, Napoleon’s France, and finally the Reich of Adolph Hitler, “the apotheosis of the transnational tyrant” (p. 280). He never explains exactly what…
The Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985
Aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique, le debat sur une technologie d'auto-suffisance et respectueuse de la nature, ne principalement apres la defaite americai- ne au Vietnam, a disparu avec l'evolution, tant politique que culturelle, de l'idee de remasculinisation de la societe, dogme represente par le president Reagan et par Rambo selon l'A
The History of Technology and the Study of Material Culture
MATERIAL CULTURE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE STUDY THROUGH artifacts (and other pertinent historical evidence) of the belief systems-the values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions-of a particular community or society, usually across time, with the history of technology designated as a subfield of culture studies.' Over the past quarter-century a growing cadre of scholars has attempted to describe and account for those things with which Americans do …
War, Business, and American Society
Journal Article War, Business, and American Society: Historical Perspectives on the Military-Industrial Complex. Ed. by Benjamin Franklin-Cooling. (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1977. 205 pp. Tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access Carroll Pursell Carroll Pursell University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Is…
Domesticating modernity
For over half a century, from 1924 to 1986, the Electrical Association for Women (EAW) worked to modernize the British home by bringing the blessings of labour-saving appliances to the aid of British women. Adopting a strategy of facilitation, the EAW sought, on the one hand, to educate women about electricity and its advantages in the home, encourage them to demand greater access to that electricity and keep them abreast of new developments in a…
"Am I a Lady or an Engineer?" The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940
Thomas Digges and William Pearce
IN the years after I763, while American colonials were perfecting a political revolution in the New World, England was going through an industrial revolution at home. The results of the latter upheaval were already beginning change the face of the Mother Country before its details were known in the former colonies. The works of James Watt, Richard Arkwright, and others, became known Americans only after the war when something like normal communic…
The Safe and Rational Children’s Playground
Between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries the evolution of playgrounds in the United States was shaped by both ideology and technology. Advocates agreed that playgrounds should control and instruct children, but disagreed on the way to accomplish those goals: the extreme positions marked by a commitment to the principles of ‘Efficiency’ or the ideal of recreation. The technology of playgrounds, both the sites and the equipment,…
Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production
Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production Carroll W. Pursell (bio) Some thirty years ago I was reading an anthology of American tall tales, and it struck me that the folk heroes who were celebrated could be categorized in various ways: by sex, by race, by century, by their occupations and the scenes of their incredible feats.1 Three in particular shared a striking convergence. In the story of Old Stormalong, the whaling captain with the ov…
The Machine in America
Journal Article The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. By Carroll Pursell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xviii, 358 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-4817-2. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-8018-4818-0.) Get access John M. Jordan John M. Jordan Harvard, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Page 1539, https://doi.o…
"Am I a Lady or an Engineer"? The Origins of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain, 1918-1940
“Am I a Lady or an Engineer?” The Origins of the Women’s Engineering Society in Britain, 1918—1940 CARROLL PURSELL Early in 1919 a group of educated and ambitious British women, recently engaged in munitions work, founded the Women’s Engineer ing Society (WES) to protect their interests against attempts to force them out of the engineering trades. The society was immediately confronted with deep and abiding problems of liminality. They had, firs…
Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century
Women Inventors in America
The History of Technology as a Source of Appropriate Technology
ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY (or Appropriate Technology-the two terms are usually used interchangeably) is a subject of increasing concern to policy makers at all levels of government, and presumably in corporate board rooms and union halls as well. At the present time most of the funds and attendant expectations are focused, quite properly, on engineering innovations. Such engineering research is critical if we are to move forward, and our society spe…
The Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, 1884-1914
Tariff and Technology
IN 1890 THE UNITED STATES imported from Wales over 300,000 tons of tin plate-virtually its entire consumption and nearly three quarters of the Welsh product. Just ten years later America was herself producing nearly 400,000 tons, and the Welsh product had been driven from the domestic market.' In order to produce this transformation, the American tinplate manufacturers had to overcome two formidable obstacles. First, they had to master a complex …
A History of Steamboating on the Upper Missouri River
Thomas Digges and William Pearce
IN the years after I763, while American colonials were perfecting a political revolution in the New World, England was going through an industrial revolution at home. The results of the latter upheaval were already beginning change the face of the Mother Country before its details were known in the former colonies. The works of James Watt, Richard Arkwright, and others, became known Americans only after the war when something like normal communic…
David Rittenhouse
Tanning in the United States to 1850
Brooklyn Bridge
An Administrative History of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1958-1963 . Robert L. Rosholt
The Politics of American Science, 1939 to the Present
A Preface to Government Support of Research and Development
Carroll W. Pursell, Jr., A Preface to Government Support of Research and Development: Research Legislation and the National Bureau of Standards, 1935-41, Technology and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Apr., 1968), pp. 145-164
Technology in Western Civilization
Safer Skyways
The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910
Some Recent Government Publications concerning Technology
Ebenezer A. Lester's Pendulum Steam Engine
The Cover Design EBENEZER A. LESTER’S PENDULUM STEAM ENGINE Ebenezer A. Lester was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1827, when he patented his Pendulum Steam Engine. His first contact with steam engines came in 1814 when he entered the employ of George Stiles, an inventor and manufacturer of rotary engines in Baltimore, Maryland. After leaving Baltimore, Lester worked at various times in New York and North Carolina, both in buildin…
Christopher Colles's Steam Engine for the New York Water Works, 1775
The Cover Design CHRISTOPHER COLLES’S STEAM ENGINE FOR THE NEW YORK WATER WORKS, 1775 CARROLL W. PURSELL, JR. In July 1774, the Corporation of the city of New York met “and agreed to Mr. Christopher Colies’s Proposal for supplying this City with fresh Water, by means of a Steam Engine, Reservoir, and Conduit Pipes.”1 The city had reached a population of some 22,000 souls, and the matter of adequate water was already one of considerable concern. C…
The Farm Chemurgic Council and the United States Department of Agriculture, 1935-1939
America the Vanishing
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 641 enue stamps per day. To facilitate the movement of mail between cities, the Post Office Department encouraged the manufacture of faster trains, a variety of automobiles, powerboats, and airplanes. Mail transportation in metropolitan areas was enhanced by the use of screen wagons, pneu matic tubes, and the three-wheeled mailsters. In 1958 the Postal Research and Engineering Laboratory in Washing ton, D.C.,…
Early Stationary Steam Engines in America
America the Vanishing
Readings in Technology and American Life
Charles Ellet, Jr
Journal Article Charles Ellet, Jr.: The Engineer as Individualist, 1810–1862. By Gene D. Lewis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1968. viii + 220 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendix, and index. $7.50.) Get access Carroll Pursell Carroll Pursell University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 57, Issue 4, March 1971, Page 921, https://do…
James Watt and the Steam Revolution. A Documentary History
Early Stationary Steam Engines in America
The American Ideology of National Science, 1919-1930
Journal Article The American Ideology of National Science, 1919–1930. By Ronald C. Tobey. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. xiii + 263 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, and index. $9.95.) Get access Carroll Pursell Carroll Pursell University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 59, Issue 2, September 1972, Pages 459–460, https://doi…
The Birth of the Great Western Railway
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