Hugh Richard Slotten
Biographic Data
| ID | 1076589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh Richard Slotten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Slotten |
| SIGNATURE | SLOTTEN H R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge History of Science
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europ…
Cambridge History of Science
International Governance, Organizational Standards, and the First Global Satellite Communication System
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Telecommunications and Empire (review)
Reviewed by: Telecommunications and Empire Hugh R. Slotten (bio) Telecommunications and Empire. By Jill Hills. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. xii+291. $45. Jill Hills has written an important book for scholars interested in long-term global trends in telecommunications and international relations. Her previous book, The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century (2002), focused on developments from the…
Radio's Hidden Voice: Noncommercial Broadcasting, Extension Education, and State Universities during the 1920s
Radio’s Hidden Voice:Noncommercial Broadcasting, Extension Education, and State Universities during the 1920s Hugh R. Slotten (bio) A few days after Christmas in 1929, Ralph Goddard died while regulating equipment in the generator room of the radio station at New Mexico State Agricultural and Mechanical College. Goddard, a professor in the school's engineering department, was then forty-two years old. The circumstances of his death remain unclear…
Universities, public service experimentation, and the origins of radio broadcasting in the United States, 1900–1920
Universities, Public Service Radio and the ‘American System’ of Commercial Broadcasting, 1921–40
Although historians of radio have emphasized that the rise of the American broadcasting system during the 1920s and 1930s was not ‘inevitable’ but depended on contingent circumstances, major studie
Commercial radio, public affairs discourse and the manipulation of sound scholarship Isolationism, wartime civil rights and the collapse of the attractiveness of communism in America, 1933-1945
Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World (review)
Anytime, Anywhere is a history of the rise of the wireless communications industry. Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson are particularly interested in analyzing and chronicling the profound organizational, economic, and political transformations that accompanied the development of this new industry. They argue that understanding the industry is central to understanding recent developments in telecommunications, as companies around the world h…
Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940 (review)
Fireside Politics is a very important contribution to the history of broadcasting. Douglas Craig's main goal was to write a political history of radio broadcasting in the United States before World War II; however, he has also succeeded in producing the best general study yet published on the development of radio broadcasting during this crucial period when key institutional and social patterns were established. The research is impressive. Primar…
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
Hugh R. Slotten, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's history of science department, assesses the interplay between industry and government officials and points of view at a series of crucial junctures in the innovation of broadcast technology. He notes that “before the 1970s and 1980s, few government officials seriously questioned the regulatory policies established as early as the 1920s and 1930s for the broadcast industry” and describes how tech…
Satellite Communications, Globalization, and the Cold War
The concept of globalization encompasses a number of different meanings that reflect the diminishing importance of national boundaries and the rise of worldwide social and economic processes. Analysts of globalization have focused on such issues as the growth of transnational companies, the expansion of international trade, and the increased tension between metropolitan and local practices and cultures. A crucial element in this process of transf…
The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation in the Twentieth Century . Marvin R. Bensman
Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist . Albert E. Moyer
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States by Thomas Streeter
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 173 is persuasive, Irwin wrongly conceptualizes tourism during the 19th century by referring to it as “mass” tourism. Even with an increasing number of Americans engaging in recreational travel during the 1850s, tourism for the vast majority of Americans could only exist as a mental exercise in an era before the widespread institution of paid vacations for the middle classes. The multitude might read about magn…
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey
Rainbow in the Sky: FM Radio, Technical Superiority, and Regulatory Decision-Making
Apres avoir rapidement decrit l'histoire de l'invention de la radio modulation de frequence (FM) et les decisions de la commission federale des communications entre 1930 et 1940, l'A. analyse les strategies economiques, sociales et administratives qui ont du etre appliquees pour resoudre les problemes techniques et provoquer les decisions politiques
Minds for the Making: The Role of Science in American Education, 1750-1990 . Scott L. Montgomery
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
Journal Article Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey. By Hugh Richard Slotten. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii, 228 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-521-43395-9.) Get access Joseph Brent Joseph Brent Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 730–731, https:/…
Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: "Creating "Radio Paradise
Hugh Richard Slotten, Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: Creating "Radio Paradise", Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 950-986
The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 6: January 1844-December 1846: The Princeton Years . Joseph Henry , Marc Rothenberg , Kathleen W. Dorman , John C. Rumm , Paul H. Theerman
American Scientific Exploration, 1803-1860: Manuscripts in Four Philadelphia Libraries. William Stanton
Satellite Communications, Globalization, and the Cold War
The concept of globalization encompasses a number of different meanings that reflect the diminishing importance of national boundaries and the rise of worldwide social and economic processes. Analysts of globalization have focused on such issues as the growth of transnational companies, the expansion of international trade, and the increased tension between metropolitan and local practices and cultures. A crucial element in this process of transf…
Humane Chemistry or Scientific Barbarism? American Responses to World War I Poison Gas, 1915-1930
Journal Article Humane Chemistry or Scientific Barbarism? American Responses to World War I Poison Gas, 1915–1930 Get access Hugh R. Slotten Hugh R. Slotten graduate student and a Dean's Fellow in the History of Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recent predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issu…
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
Journal Article Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey. By Hugh Richard Slotten. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii, 228 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-521-43395-9.) Get access Joseph Brent Joseph Brent Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 730–731, https:/…
International Governance, Organizational Standards, and the First Global Satellite Communication System
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Universities, Public Service Radio and the ‘American System’ of Commercial Broadcasting, 1921–40
Although historians of radio have emphasized that the rise of the American broadcasting system during the 1920s and 1930s was not ‘inevitable’ but depended on contingent circumstances, major studie
Commercial radio, public affairs discourse and the manipulation of sound scholarship Isolationism, wartime civil rights and the collapse of the attractiveness of communism in America, 1933-1945
Science, Education, and Antebellum Reform: The Case of Alexander Dallas Bache
As primary civilizing forces, science and formal education have achieved a position of dominance and prestige in modern society. In the United States, efforts to institutionalize these two cultural commitments became especially strong during the decades preceding the Civil War. Historians of science, such as Robert Bruce, have argued that the antebellum period saw the launching of American science.' During the years before the Civil War, many ins…
Chemical Warfare . Edward M. Spiers
Humane Chemistry or Scientific Barbarism? American Responses to World War I Poison Gas, 1915-1930
Journal Article Humane Chemistry or Scientific Barbarism? American Responses to World War I Poison Gas, 1915–1930 Get access Hugh R. Slotten Hugh R. Slotten graduate student and a Dean's Fellow in the History of Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a recent predoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issu…
Chemical Warfare, Chemical Disarmament . Valerie Adams
Science, Education, and Antebellum Reform: The Case of Alexander Dallas Bache
As primary civilizing forces, science and formal education have achieved a position of dominance and prestige in modern society. In the United States, efforts to institutionalize these two cultural commitments became especially strong during the decades preceding the Civil War. Historians of science, such as Robert Bruce, have argued that the antebellum period saw the launching of American science.' During the years before the Civil War, many ins…
Benjamin Franklin Bache and the Philadelphia
The Dilemmas of Science in the United States: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
The Origins of Natural Science in America: The Essays of George Brown Goode . George Brown Goode, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume 6: January 1844-December 1846: The Princeton Years . Joseph Henry , Marc Rothenberg , Kathleen W. Dorman , John C. Rumm , Paul H. Theerman
American Scientific Exploration, 1803-1860: Manuscripts in Four Philadelphia Libraries. William Stanton
Minds for the Making: The Role of Science in American Education, 1750-1990 . Scott L. Montgomery
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
Journal Article Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey. By Hugh Richard Slotten. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xii, 228 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-521-43395-9.) Get access Joseph Brent Joseph Brent Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 730–731, https:/…
Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: "Creating "Radio Paradise
Hugh Richard Slotten, Radio Engineers, the Federal Radio Commission, and the Social Shaping of Broadcast Technology: Creating "Radio Paradise", Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1995), pp. 950-986
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey
Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U. S. Coast Survey
Rainbow in the Sky: FM Radio, Technical Superiority, and Regulatory Decision-Making
Apres avoir rapidement decrit l'histoire de l'invention de la radio modulation de frequence (FM) et les decisions de la commission federale des communications entre 1930 et 1940, l'A. analyse les strategies economiques, sociales et administratives qui ont du etre appliquees pour resoudre les problemes techniques et provoquer les decisions politiques
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States
Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States by Thomas Streeter
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 173 is persuasive, Irwin wrongly conceptualizes tourism during the 19th century by referring to it as “mass” tourism. Even with an increasing number of Americans engaging in recreational travel during the 1850s, tourism for the vast majority of Americans could only exist as a mental exercise in an era before the widespread institution of paid vacations for the middle classes. The multitude might read about magn…
Joseph Henry: The Rise of an American Scientist . Albert E. Moyer
The Beginning of Broadcast Regulation in the Twentieth Century . Marvin R. Bensman
Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920-1940 (review)
Fireside Politics is a very important contribution to the history of broadcasting. Douglas Craig's main goal was to write a political history of radio broadcasting in the United States before World War II; however, he has also succeeded in producing the best general study yet published on the development of radio broadcasting during this crucial period when key institutional and social patterns were established. The research is impressive. Primar…
Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960
Hugh R. Slotten, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's history of science department, assesses the interplay between industry and government officials and points of view at a series of crucial junctures in the innovation of broadcast technology. He notes that “before the 1970s and 1980s, few government officials seriously questioned the regulatory policies established as early as the 1920s and 1930s for the broadcast industry” and describes how tech…
Satellite Communications, Globalization, and the Cold War
The concept of globalization encompasses a number of different meanings that reflect the diminishing importance of national boundaries and the rise of worldwide social and economic processes. Analysts of globalization have focused on such issues as the growth of transnational companies, the expansion of international trade, and the increased tension between metropolitan and local practices and cultures. A crucial element in this process of transf…
Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World (review)
Anytime, Anywhere is a history of the rise of the wireless communications industry. Louis Galambos and Eric John Abrahamson are particularly interested in analyzing and chronicling the profound organizational, economic, and political transformations that accompanied the development of this new industry. They argue that understanding the industry is central to understanding recent developments in telecommunications, as companies around the world h…
Commercial radio, public affairs discourse and the manipulation of sound scholarship Isolationism, wartime civil rights and the collapse of the attractiveness of communism in America, 1933-1945
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