David A Hounshell

Biographic Data

ID1046824
NAMEDavid A Hounshell
GIVEN NAMESDavid A
FAMILY NAMEHounshell
SIGNATUREHOUNSHELL D A
AFFILIATIONSCarnegie Mellon University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Experimental Capitalism: The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries

    Open AccessSteven Klepper, Serguey Braguinsky et al.BOOKExperimental Capitalism2015

  • Spinning Tales about Japanese Cotton Spinning: Saxonhouse (1974) and Lessons from New Data

    Open AccessSerguey Braguinsky, David A HounshellARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2015Cited by: 2References: 18

    We revisit the story of technology adoption and diffusion in Japan's Meiji-era cotton spinning industry, the study of which was pioneered by Gary Saxonhouse (1974). Using a novel data set and modern methodology, we argue that both the ease with which the best technology diffused and the role of "slavish imitation" in this process may have been overstated. We find an important role played by market competition, including asset reallocation. Our an…

  • Effects of government incentives on wind innovation in the United States

    Open AccessNathaniel Horner, Inês Azevedo et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    In the United States, as elsewhere, state and federal governments have considered or implemented a range of policies to create more sustainable energy generation systems in response to concerns over climate change, security of fuel supply, and environmental impacts. These policies include both regulatory instruments such as renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) and market incentives such as tax credits. While these policies are primarily geared to…

  • Regulation as the Mother of Innovation: The Case of SO2 Control

    Open AccessMargaret Taylor, Margaret R Taylor et al.ARTICLELaw & Policy2005Cited by: 9References: 30

    This paper explores the relationship between government actions and innovation in an environmental control technology—sulfur dioxide (SO2) control technologies for power plants—through the use of complementary research methods. Its findings include the importance of regulation and the anticipation of regulation in stimulating invention; the greater role of regulation, as opposed to public R&D expenditures, in inducing invention; the importance of…

  • Eugene S. Ferguson, 1916-2004

    David A HounshellARTICLETechnology and Culture2004

    Eugene Shallcross Ferguson, one of the Society for the History of Technology's founding members, its eleventh president (1977-78), and recipient of its Abbott Payson Usher Award (1969) and Leonardo da Vinci Medal (1977), died on 21 March 2004, after an extended illness. He is survived by his wife of fifty-six years, Josephine Mobley Ferguson, and three children, Daniel Ferguson of Babb, Montana, David Ferguson of Sheldrake, New York, and Judith W…

  • Rethinking the Cold War; Rethinking Science and Technology in the Cold War; Rethinking the Social Study of Science and Technology

    Open AccessDavid A HounshellARTICLESocial Studies of Science2001Cited by: 6References: 3

  • Hughesian history of technology and Chandlerian business history: Parallels, departures, and critics

    David A HounshellARTICLEHistory and Technology1995

    Thomas P. Hughes and Alfred D. Chandler have exerted enormous influence in their respective fields of the history of technology and business history. This essay explores the development of these two scholars and their work, highlights the interaction of Hughes and Chandler and their ideas, and indentifies the ideas and issues on which they agree and disagree. The problem of technological determinism has attended both scholars’ work and has become…

  • Technology in America: A Brief History . Alan I. Marcus , Howard P. Segal

    David A HounshellARTICLEIsis1992

  • Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth

    David A Hounshell, David C Mowery et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Technology and the Pursuit of Economic Growth. By David C. Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. viii + 330 pp. $29.95.) Get access David A. Hounshell David A. Hounshell University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1411, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078377 Published: 01 March 1991

  • Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R. & D., 1902-1980

    R P T Davenport-Hines, Richard Davenport-Hines et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1990

  • Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont and R&D, 1902-1980

    Kendall Birr, David A Hounshell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

  • Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R & D, 1902-1980

    Brian Balogh, David A Hounshell et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1990

    List of illustrations List of tables Editors' preface Authors' preface Introduction Part I. The Experimental Era: 1902-1921: 1. Organizing for research and development, 1902-1911 2. Reorganizing and diversification 3. World War I and the venture into dyestuffs 4. Decentralization Part II. Creating a Chemical Empire: 5. Rebuilding a central research organization 6. Research to the rescue: Du Pont finishes 7. Research efficiency: the organic chemic…

  • Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D, 1902-1980

    Stephen Salsbury, David A Hounshell et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1989

    Journal Article Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R&D, 1902–1980. By David A. Hounshell and John Kenly Smith Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. xx + 756 pp. $39.50.) Get access Stephen Salsbury Stephen Salsbury University of Sydney, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 961–962, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936514 Pu…

  • From the American System to Mass Production 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States

    Stephen Meyer, David A HounshellARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

  • From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The development of manufacturing technology in the United States

    David A Hounshell, David HounshellBOOKFrom the American system to mass…1985

  • Social Processes and Technological Change

    Merritt Roe Smith, David A Hounshell et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1985

  • From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States

    Bruce Sinclair, David A HounshellARTICLEJournal of American History1985

    Journal Article From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. By David A. Hounshell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xxiv + 411 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50.) Get access Bruce Sinclair Bruce Sinclair University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of A…

  • Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas

    David A Hounshell, Carroll W Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

    American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution began at the same time, and ever since the development of America and the development of technology have proceeded in tandem, each dependent on and contributing to the other. From the beginning until well into the twentieth century, technical innovation was largely the work of the rugged individualists who have since entered the pantheon of American folklore: their names, coupled with the enterpri…

  • The Discipline of the History of American Technology: An Exchange

    Darwin H Stapleton, David A HounshellARTICLEJournal of American History1982

    The Discipline of the History of American Technology: An Exchange Get access Darwin H. Stapleton, Darwin H. Stapleton Hagley Museum and University of DelawareCase Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David A. Hounshell David A. Hounshell Hagley Museum and University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…

  • Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History . Martha Moore Trescott

    David A HounshellARTICLEIsis1981

  • On the Discipline of the History of American Technology

    David A HounshellARTICLEJournal of American History1981Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Commentary/On the Discipline of the History of American Technology Get access David A. Hounshell David A. Hounshell technology at the Hagley Museum and assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 4, March 1981, Pages 854–865, https://doi.org/10.2307/1888053 Published: 01 March 1981

  • The Smithsonian Book of Invention

    David A Hounshell, David HounshellARTICLETechnology and Culture1980

  • Public Relations or Public Understanding: The American Industries Series in Scientific American

    David A HounshellARTICLETechnology and Culture1980Cited by: 1

  • The Sewing Machine: Its Invention and Development

    David A Hounshell, Grace Rogers CooperARTICLETechnology and Culture1978

  • Peacefully Working to Conquer the World: The Singer Sewing Machine in Foreign Markets, 1854-1920

    David A Hounshell, Robert Bruce DaviesARTICLETechnology and Culture1977

    Professor Davies's book, an expanded version of his doctoral dissertation, is one of the original, as opposed to reprinted, volumes in Arno Press's series, American Business Abroad: Origins and Development of the Multinational Corporation. The book's outrageous price, its shoddy appearance (a photocopy of a typescript, complete with ragged margins), and its lack of a bibliography and index should not deter scholars interested in the nature of Ame…