Donald C Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald C Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald C |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON D C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2554-4990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall by Daniel Macfarlane
Reviewed by: Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall by Daniel Macfarlane Donald C. Jackson (bio) Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall By Daniel Macfarlane. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020. Pp. 274. With a natural discharge averaging about 200,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) and plunging some 150 feet over a sharp p…
Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling by Richard Haw
Reviewed by: Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling by Richard Haw Donald C. Jackson (bio) Engineering America: The Life and Times of John A. Roebling By Richard Haw. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 648. Opened for traffic in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is revered by many as a world-class exemplar of structural engineering. Its history is well known, thanks to David McCullough's The Great Bridge (Simon & Schuster, …
Earwitnessing the Queer Acoustics of Public Space: Law, Sex and Nature in Ultra-red’s Second Nature
This paper examines queer sex and public space usage in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park through a series of recordings produced by the sound collective Ultra-red. Ultra-red have been using sound as a mode of political analysis since 1994 when they were founded by two AIDS activists in Los Angeles. This paper works in particular with two records released by Ultra-red in the late 1990s: an EP Ode to Johnny Rio (1998) and album Second Nature: An Electroa…
Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of the 20 th Century and the Making of Modern Los Angeles . By Jon Wilkman
Journal Article Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of the 20th Century and the Making of Modern Los Angeles. By Jon Wilkman Get access Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of the 20th Century and the Making of Modern Los Angeles. By Jon Wilkman. (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2016. viii + 327 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, bibliography, index. $28.00.) Donald C. Jackson Donald C. Jackson Lafayette College Search for other wor…
Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon . By Anthony F. Arrigo
Hoover Dam (called Boulder Dam from 1933 through 1947) is among the world’s best-known engineering landmarks. At 726 feet tall and containing more than 3 million cubic yards of concrete, the massive curved gravity structure stands (in tandem with Grand Coulee Dam) as the greatest symbol of techno-cultural accomplishment in the twentieth-century American West. Anthony F. Arrigo, an English professor, writes about Hoover Dam through the lens of vis…
Necessary to engineers of the new generation’: What is important for engineers to know
Interest in establishing programs of Liberal Studies in Engineering that are not designed to be accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) necessarily intersects with the larger issue of how understandings of the liberal arts and social sciences should be incorporated into B.S. engineering programs. Debate over how (or how much) engineering education should focus on science and mathematical instruction is a long one; …
The Engineer as Lobbyist: John R. Freeman and the Hetch Hetchy Dam (1910–13)
The damming of Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite National Park is a watershed event in environmental history, a presumed travesty that brought anguish to John Muir and his many supporters throughout the United States. Exactly how San Francisco won the right to transform the bucolic valley into a reservoir has been little studied up to now, although historians recognize that the East Coast hydraulic engineer John R. Freeman played a critical role in the ca…
Enduring Pastoral: Recycling the Middle Landscape Ideal in the Tennessee Valley (review)
Reviewed by: Enduring Pastoral: Recycling the Middle Landscape Ideal in the Tennessee Valley Donald C. Jackson (bio) Enduring Pastoral: Recycling the Middle Landscape Ideal in the Tennessee Valley. By Torben Huus Larsen. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2010. Pp. vii+208. €44. In his 1964 book The Machine in the Garden, Leo Marx brought the concepts of “pastoral” and “middle landscape” into the literary lexicon of historians interested in technology a…
David Welky. The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
Thanks to John M. Barry's bestselling Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1997), a wide swath of readers are aware that racial and urban power politics intertwined with one of the most devastating floods in American history. But floods are a staple of the American experience, and the 1927 inundation is only one among many that has ravaged the nation's riparian landscape over the past two hundred years. Dav…
"Intervenciones Arqueológicas en el nivel II del Yacimiento Pleistocénico "Las Monedas
Se presentan los resultados de la intervención en área del segundo nivel (y principal) de un yacimiento pleistocénico terminal (LV. 210) en la costa de la Comuna de Los Vilos, IV Región. El sitio se emplaza en un drenaje de una antigua cuenca lacustre ampliamente reconocida por sus numerosos hallazgos de fauna del período. Se describen los trabajos conducidos durante la segunda campaña, la estratigrafía general del yacimiento y se discute las evi…
Instrumentos liticos y microhuellas de uso del sitio Ta-2E- 7 Radal Siete Tazas
El complejo andino de buriles: Evidencia Empírica Y Fundamento Teórico
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
When dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam was known as Boulder Dam. Playing off the long-running battle over the dam's name, the Los Angeles Times business writer Michael Hiltzik provides intriguing background on how both Republican and Democrat politicians laid claim to the monumental concrete structure erected across the Colorado River near the once-remote settlement of Las Vegas, Nevada. Hiltzik is…
The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River
Book Review| October 01 2010 The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River. Robert A. Sauder. Donald C. Jackson Donald C. Jackson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 555–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.4.555 Cite Ico…
Water and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium
Journal Article Water and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium Get access Water and the California Dream: Choices for the New Millennium. By Carle David. (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2003. xix + 235 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. $16.95, £11.95, paper.) Donald C. Jackson Donald C. Jackson Lafayette College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vo…
Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West
Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands
Journal Article Reclaiming the Arid West: The Career of Francis G. Newlands. By William D. Rowley Bloomington and Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. By Donald C. Jackson Lawrence Get access Brian Black Brian Black Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages 1439…
The Great Road: The Building of the Baltimore & Ohio, the Nation's First Railroad, 1828-1853
Raising Arizona’s Dams: Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s–1940s by A. E. Rogge, et al
358 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE War. Her focus is the wood planer patented in 1828 by William Woodworth, and her approach here is as successful as it was in her book on another woodworking invention, the Blanchard lathe. One of the most valuable contributions of this volume is its re printing of Brooke Hindle’s 1966 much-cited but, until now, outof -print essay, “The Exhilaration of Early American Technology.” Those who contemplate resea…
Raising Arizona's Dams: Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s
Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West
Journal Article Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West Get access Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West. By Jackson Donald C.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. xii + 336 pp. Illustrations, map, charts, glossary, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $45.00.) Char Miller Char Miller Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
The Gas Station in America
A History of Dams: The Useful Pyramids
The ancient civilizations the Roman Empire the Moslem world medieval eastern Asia medieval and postmedieval Europe evolution of modern dam technology chronology
A History of Dams: The Useful Pyramids by Nicholas J. Schnitter
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 179 This ultimately collapsed the humor theory that was the central construct of biological thought for a score of centuries. Knowledge of germs affected medicine and agriculture simultaneously, allowing health to become a more achievable goal. The decline of epidemics, the reversal of infant mortality rates, the rise ofcrop and livestock yields were results that conditioned other hopes and achievements. The ha…
Shaping Technology/Building Technology: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
When dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, the 726-foot-high Hoover Dam was known as Boulder Dam. Playing off the long-running battle over the dam's name, the Los Angeles Times business writer Michael Hiltzik provides intriguing background on how both Republican and Democrat politicians laid claim to the monumental concrete structure erected across the Colorado River near the once-remote settlement of Las Vegas, Nevada. Hiltzik is…
Engineering in the Progressive Era: A New Look at Frederick Haynes Newell and the U.S. Reclamation Service
transformation through the agency of technology. As Walter Prescott Webb illustrated in his classic 1931 book The Great Plains, the expanse of America lying west of the ninety-eighth meridian (a line running through the center of Kansas) is largely defined by the lack of precipitation.3 Water is a key factor in the economic and social development of the arid region, and water control technologies are
Individual Rights and National Security
The Transfer of Immovables
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Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: With Related Documents, 1783-1854
Custer's Gold: The United States Cavalry Expedition of 1874
Journal Article Custer's Gold: The United States Cavalry Expedition of 1874. By Donald Jackson. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966. vi + 152 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, appendices, and index. $5.00.) Get access Robert M. Utley Robert M. Utley National Park Service Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 53, Issue 3, December 1966, Pages 608–609, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest
Journal Article Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest Get access Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest. By Allen John Logan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975. xxvi, 412 p. Illustrations, charts, maps, bibliography, index. $18.50.) Donald Jackson Donald Jackson University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont
Hydraulics in the United States, 1776-1976
The Diaries of George Washington
Journal Article The Diaries of George Washington. Ed. by Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976. Vol. I: 1748–63. lv + 373 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. Vol. II: 1766–70. xvi + 374 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, biblioeraphy, and index. $15.00/volume.) Get access Mary Beth Norton Mary Beth Norton Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
Man and Water. A History of Hydro-Technology . Norman Smith
A Selection of Historic American Papers on Concrete, 1876-1926
The Diaries of George Washington
was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning th…
Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello
Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello
Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello
Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello
Reclaiming the American West: An Historiography and Guide
Haer and Electrica Engineering
Founded in 1969, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) is an office within the National Park Service responsible for developing an archival collection of photographs, measured drawings, and written reports documenting America's technological heritage. Maintained within the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, the HAER Collection includes documentation on several sites significant in electrical engineering history.…
Centennial Celebrations: Two Exhibits Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge
tory and the Brooklyn Museum each opened a major exhibit in the spring of 1983 in recognition of the centennial of the Brooklyn Bridge.' While both exhibits featured John Roebling's final and grandest suspension bridge, their orientation, organization, and content were so divergent that anyone having the opportunity to see both found little duplication. One exhibit emphasized the technological significance of the bridge; the other also addressed …
Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806
Journal Article Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806 Get access Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806. Edited by Flores Dan L.. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. xx + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $48.50.) Donald Jackson Donald Jackson Colorado Springs, Color…
From the Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in California and the West, 1850-1931
A Mission in the Desert: Albuquerque District 1935-1985
Among the Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces on Lewis and Clark
Good Show: George Washington Plays George Washington
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure by Joseph E. Stevens
1062 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE (p. 33)—requires further elaboration to be meaningful. In the section on dams, an explanation and diagram of a turbine (since so many dams are used for power production) would have been helpful. But these are quibbles about a book that, overall, is carefully researched and written. The preservation of bridges and dams presents unique challenges, for their continued survival depends not so much on significa…
Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
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