Eugene S Ferguson

• Engineering and the Mind's Eye

  Wilson, Stephen Wilson et al.•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1995

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• Design Paradigms

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1995

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  696 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE archives in Europe and America, and contemporary technical litera­ ture, as well as correspondence and interviews with many surviving participants in diesel development. This mass of information is really the raw material for a book rather than the finished product. It needs more editing and proof­ reading. But the index is quite helpful. And in this mass of data one can see general truths about the origin …

• Design Paradigms

  Eugene S Ferguson, Henry Petroski•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1995

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  1. Introduction 2. Paconius and the pedestal for Apollo: a paradigm of error in conceptual design 3. Vitruvius's Auger and Galileo's Bones: paradigms of limits to size in design 4. Galileo and the marble column: a paradigm of a design change for the worse 5. Galileo's confirmation of a false hypothesis: A paradigm of logical error in design 6. The design and collapse of the Dee Bridge: a paradigm of success masking error 7. The Britannia Tubular …

• Engineering and the Mind's Eye

  Eda Kranakis, Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1994

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• Mechanics of Pre-Industrial Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson, Brian Cotterell et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1992

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• Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1992

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  TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 603 seum administrators in the United States for novelty over reflection. It is a paradox, then, that this volume is dedicated to Cyril S. Smith, the scholar who has done so much to interpret the wider context of materials in art and technology. Most historians of technology have used material evidence spar­ ingly, while curators at museums of technology often display items in their collections to illustrate co…

• A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter by Alvah F. Hunter

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1990

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  TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 185 climatic changes occurred between the 7th and 16th centuries, and these should be given great consideration in any model. Finally, I would take issue with the technique of using manuscript illustrations and graffiti as the main source for the reconstruction of ships and peculiar aspects of their technology. Much more modelmaking and testing is needed, and here one can only hope for more collaboration with s…

• A Year on a Monitor and the Destruction of Fort Sumter

  Eugene S Ferguson, Alvah Folsom Hunter et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1990

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• Edison's Electric Light

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1988

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  TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 153 Edison’s Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. By Robert Friedel and Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi+263; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). In the space of four years, from October 1878 to September 1882, Thomas Edison, with the help of able associates and wellequipped laboratories, created the essen…

• Edison's Electric Light

  Eugene S Ferguson, Robert Friedel et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1988•Citada por: 6

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• Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements

  Eugene S Ferguson, Henry T Brown•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1983

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  F ive Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements is a classic little jewel of moving mechanisms, a valuable resource for anyone who is building robots. When first published in 1868, this book offered the pre-Internet world a collection of the greatest moving devices of the time, gathered together in one small readable volume. Reissued in 1995, this book is still being used and enjoyed. Although there is a great deal of innovation happening now in sof…

• The Herbert Clark Hoover Collection of Mining and Metallurgy. Bibliotheca De Re Metallica

  Eugene S Ferguson, David Kuhner et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1982

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• Oliver Evans, Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution

  Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1982

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• The Art of the Engineer

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1980

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• American Engineers of the Nineteenth Century

  Eugene S Ferguson, Christine M Roysdon et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1979

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• Toys and Turning

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1979

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• The American-ness of American Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1979•Citada por: 6

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  The development of technology in America is a totally improbable chapter in world history. Starting on the edge of an unknown continent, the new Americans within ten generations not only filled the continent and subdued it, but also reached out to change the rest of the world. The tools they brought with them to do the job were European; in the new land, old tools became new machines. Urged on by ideologies of mechanization and expansion, the too…

• Nonverbal Thought in Technology

  William Sears, William R Sears et al.•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1978

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• The Mind's Eye

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1978•Citada por: 31

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  This scientific age too readily assumes that whatever knowledge may be incorporated in the artifacts of technology must be derived from science. This assumption is a bit of modern folklore that ignores the many nonscientific decisions, both large and small, made by technologists as they design the world we inhabit. Many objects of daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance, were…

• Elegant Inventions

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1978

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  If you have a tendency to wonder about the things that make up our technological surroundings, as I do, then you have probably had the experience of imagining, or designing, or inventing a new thing or a modification of an existing thing. The earliest invention of mine that I recall was made in 1937 upon seeing a DC-3 passenger airplane land at the Newark, New Jersey, airport. On the spot I invented a landingwheel spinner to prevent the sudden sc…

• The Mind's Eye: Nonverbal Thought in Technology

  Open Access•Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Science•1977

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  This scientific age too readily assumes that whatever knowledge may be incorporated in the artifacts of technology must be derived from science. This assumption is a bit of modern folklore that ignores the many nonscientific decisions, both large and small, made by technologists as they design the world we inhabit. Many objects of daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance, were…

• Images and Enterprise

  Eugene S Ferguson, Reese V Jenkins•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1977•Citada por: 4

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  Journal Article Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839 to 1925. By Reese V. Jenkins. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. xviii + 371 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, primary sources of information, and index. $20.00.) Get access Eugene S. Ferguson Eugene S. Ferguson University of Delaware and Hagley Museum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…

• A Biographical Index of British Engineers in the 19th Century

  Eugene S Ferguson, Samuel Peter Bell•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1976

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• Martha Teach Gnudi (1908-76)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1976

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  Memorial MARTHA TEACH GNUDI (1908-76) EUGENE S. FERGUSON Dr. Martha Teach Gnudi, known best in the history of technology for her collaborative work in the translation of 16th-century Italian classics, devoted a lifetime of scholarship to problems in the history of medicine. As an avocation, she also published two major works in the history of technology. In collaboration with Cyril Stanley Smith, she translated the Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biring…

• Toward a Discipline of the History of Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1974•Citada por: 4

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  The history of technology, one of the latest threads to be pulled out of the seamless web of history, has all the appearances of an academic field, yet it is difficult to find in it a discipline or conceptual framework that guides the work being done in its name. We can point to a Society for the History of Technology, a quarterly journal, an annual current bibliography, and a hardcover bibliography, but when we try to demonstrate what it is that…

• The Mind's Eye

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1978•Citada por: 31

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  This scientific age too readily assumes that whatever knowledge may be incorporated in the artifacts of technology must be derived from science. This assumption is a bit of modern folklore that ignores the many nonscientific decisions, both large and small, made by technologists as they design the world we inhabit. Many objects of daily use have clearly been influenced by science, but their form and function, their dimensions and appearance, were…

• Edison's Electric Light

  Eugene S Ferguson, Robert Friedel et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1988•Citada por: 6

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• The American-ness of American Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1979•Citada por: 6

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  The development of technology in America is a totally improbable chapter in world history. Starting on the edge of an unknown continent, the new Americans within ten generations not only filled the continent and subdued it, but also reached out to change the rest of the world. The tools they brought with them to do the job were European; in the new land, old tools became new machines. Urged on by ideologies of mechanization and expansion, the too…

• Images and Enterprise

  Eugene S Ferguson, Reese V Jenkins•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1977•Citada por: 4

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  Journal Article Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839 to 1925. By Reese V. Jenkins. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. xviii + 371 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendix, notes, primary sources of information, and index. $20.00.) Get access Eugene S. Ferguson Eugene S. Ferguson University of Delaware and Hagley Museum Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…

• Toward a Discipline of the History of Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1974•Citada por: 4

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  The history of technology, one of the latest threads to be pulled out of the seamless web of history, has all the appearances of an academic field, yet it is difficult to find in it a discipline or conceptual framework that guides the work being done in its name. We can point to a Society for the History of Technology, a quarterly journal, an annual current bibliography, and a hardcover bibliography, but when we try to demonstrate what it is that…

• Technical Museums and International Exhibitions

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1965•Citada por: 2

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  eighteenth-century cabinets of mechanical models; the idea was enlarged in the nineteenth century fairs and exhibitions of mechanics' institutes; but with few exceptions today's technical museums owe their existence to the international exhibitions of the nineteenth century. The 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, first of the major international exhibitions, was directly responsible for the Victoria and Albert Museum, out of which grew Lon…

• Truxtun of the Constellation. The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, US Navy. 1755-1822

  William J Morgan, Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•The William and Mary Quarterly•1957

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• Truxtun of the Constellation

  William W Jeffries, Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1957

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  Journal Article Truxtun of the Constellation: The Life of Commodore Thomas Truxtun, U. S. Navy, 1755–1822. By Eugene S. Ferguson. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1956. xiv + 322 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $5.25.) Get access William W. Jeffries William W. Jeffries United States Naval Academy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 44, Issue 1, June 1957, Pages 132–1…

• Yankee from Sweden

  Eugene S Ferguson, Ruth White et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1961

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• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part I)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1962

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• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part II)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1962

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• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part III)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1962

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• The American Civil Engineer

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Isis•1962

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• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part IV)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1963

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• Bibliography of Interlingual Scientific and Technical Dictionaries

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1963

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• General Index to Transactions, Volumes I-XXXII 1920-1960

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1964

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• Cogs in the Wheel. One Hundred Books from the Llewellyn Powell Collection of Early Technology

  Eugene S Ferguson, Llewellyn Powell•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1964

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• A History of Mechanical Engineering

  Eugene S Ferguson, Aubrey F Burstall•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1964

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• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part VI)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1964

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• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part V)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1964

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• Bibliographia Antiqua

  Eugene S Ferguson, R J Forbes•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1964

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• The Business Press in America, 1750-1865

  Eugene S Ferguson, David P Forsyth•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1965

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• John Rennie (1761-1821). The Life and Work of a Great Engineer . Cyril T. G. Boucher

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Isis•1965

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• Early Engineering Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Bulletin of the United States…•1965

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• Octave Chanute, 1832-1910

  Eugene S Ferguson, Pearl I Young•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1965

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• Technical Museums and International Exhibitions

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1965•Citada por: 2

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  eighteenth-century cabinets of mechanical models; the idea was enlarged in the nineteenth century fairs and exhibitions of mechanics' institutes; but with few exceptions today's technical museums owe their existence to the international exhibitions of the nineteenth century. The 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, first of the major international exhibitions, was directly responsible for the Victoria and Albert Museum, out of which grew Lon…

• Contributions to Bibliography in the History of Technology (Part VII)

  Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1965

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• The History of Woodworking Tools

  Eugene S Ferguson, Wendy L Goodman•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1966

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• Early Engineering Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers

  Robert E Schofield, Eugene S Ferguson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1966

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• A Theatre of Machines

  Eugene S Ferguson, A G Keller•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1966

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• The Beginnings of a Century of Steam and Water Heating by the H. B. Smith Company

  Eugene S Ferguson, Susan Reed Stifler•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1967

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