Joan Lisa Bromberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1030660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Lisa Bromberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Bromberg |
| SIGNATURE | BROMBERG J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Device Physics vis-à-vis Fundamental Physics in Cold War America
Historians have convincingly shown the close ties U.S. physicists had with the military during the Cold War and have raised the question of whether this alliance affected the content of physics. Some have asserted that it distorted physics, shifting attention from fundamental problems to devices. Yet the papers of physicists in quantum electronics and quantum optics, fields that have been exemplary for those who hold the distortion thesis, show t…
Organizing for the Use of Space
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 973 dipole oscillator and resonator, when “problems arose that under mined Hertz’s original claims, and indeed that undermined the character of the device itself as a stable effect-generator” (p. 3). In the meantime, historians of science and technology should find the present volume to be rewarding in many ways. Ronald Kline Dr. Kune is associate professor of the history of technology at Cornell University. O…
Organizing for the Use of Space
The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt
186 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The Maxwellians. By Bruce J. Hunt. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii+ 266; illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliogra phy, index. $34.95. The Maxwellians is a consummately readable book in a difficult field, the history of 19th-century physics. Bruce J. Hunt has given his text the immediacy of a novel while preserving its “hard-science” content by melding together intimately and gracefu…
The Maxwellians
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
Journal Article The Laser in America, 1950–1970. By Joan Lisa Bromberg. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xvi + 310 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-262-02318-0.) Get access David K. Allison David K. Allison National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 732–733, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080180 Published: 01 September 1992
Inventing Accuracy
American Genesis
RCA and the VideoDisc
324 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE vision, print, or the movies, but instead in the possibilities provided by the emergence and widespread availability of the new computer and microcomputer technology” (p. 3). With a straightforward and generally optimistic view of our current era of technological change, Eugene Provenzo elaborates his thesis in eight brief chapters, touching on the information society, “telematics” (the combination ofcomput…
RCA and the VideoDisc
The Making of American Industrial Research
Engineering Knowledge in the Laser Field
Masers and Lasers
Fusion
Transmutation
Science, Politics, and Controversy
TFTR
The historian can reap a rich harvest by singling out for study the developments leading up to the choice of particular, major experiments within an R&D programme. A case in point is the TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), the largest experiment presently being mounted by the US programme to invent a magnetic fusion reactor. The history of the TFTR decision throws light on one mechanism by which the political environment can affect experimental d…
Fields of Force. The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein . William Berkson
The Ethereal Aether. A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880-1930 . Loyd S. Swenson, Jr
Device Physics vis-à-vis Fundamental Physics in Cold War America
Historians have convincingly shown the close ties U.S. physicists had with the military during the Cold War and have raised the question of whether this alliance affected the content of physics. Some have asserted that it distorted physics, shifting attention from fundamental problems to devices. Yet the papers of physicists in quantum electronics and quantum optics, fields that have been exemplary for those who hold the distortion thesis, show t…
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
TFTR
The historian can reap a rich harvest by singling out for study the developments leading up to the choice of particular, major experiments within an R&D programme. A case in point is the TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), the largest experiment presently being mounted by the US programme to invent a magnetic fusion reactor. The history of the TFTR decision throws light on one mechanism by which the political environment can affect experimental d…
The Ethereal Aether. A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-Drift Experiments, 1880-1930 . Loyd S. Swenson, Jr
Fields of Force. The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein . William Berkson
TFTR
The historian can reap a rich harvest by singling out for study the developments leading up to the choice of particular, major experiments within an R&D programme. A case in point is the TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor), the largest experiment presently being mounted by the US programme to invent a magnetic fusion reactor. The history of the TFTR decision throws light on one mechanism by which the political environment can affect experimental d…
Transmutation
Science, Politics, and Controversy
Fusion
Masers and Lasers
Engineering Knowledge in the Laser Field
The Making of American Industrial Research
RCA and the VideoDisc
324 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE vision, print, or the movies, but instead in the possibilities provided by the emergence and widespread availability of the new computer and microcomputer technology” (p. 3). With a straightforward and generally optimistic view of our current era of technological change, Eugene Provenzo elaborates his thesis in eight brief chapters, touching on the information society, “telematics” (the combination ofcomput…
RCA and the VideoDisc
American Genesis
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
Journal Article The Laser in America, 1950–1970. By Joan Lisa Bromberg. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991. xvi + 310 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-262-02318-0.) Get access David K. Allison David K. Allison National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 732–733, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080180 Published: 01 September 1992
Inventing Accuracy
The Maxwellians by Bruce J. Hunt
186 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The Maxwellians. By Bruce J. Hunt. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii+ 266; illustrations, notes, appendix, bibliogra phy, index. $34.95. The Maxwellians is a consummately readable book in a difficult field, the history of 19th-century physics. Bruce J. Hunt has given his text the immediacy of a novel while preserving its “hard-science” content by melding together intimately and gracefu…
The Maxwellians
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
Organizing for the Use of Space
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 973 dipole oscillator and resonator, when “problems arose that under mined Hertz’s original claims, and indeed that undermined the character of the device itself as a stable effect-generator” (p. 3). In the meantime, historians of science and technology should find the present volume to be rewarding in many ways. Ronald Kline Dr. Kune is associate professor of the history of technology at Cornell University. O…
Organizing for the Use of Space
Device Physics vis-à-vis Fundamental Physics in Cold War America
Historians have convincingly shown the close ties U.S. physicists had with the military during the Cold War and have raised the question of whether this alliance affected the content of physics. Some have asserted that it distorted physics, shifting attention from fundamental problems to devices. Yet the papers of physicists in quantum electronics and quantum optics, fields that have been exemplary for those who hold the distortion thesis, show t…
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