Kathleen Ochs
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Ochs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ochs |
| SIGNATURE | OCHS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado School of Mines |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s (review)
This study of the entry of women into engineering in Euro-American culture is important for both historians of engineering and scholars investigating gender and technology. The essays focus on "the specific circumstances under which women entered engineering" (p. 3) in Austria, Britain, [End Page 175] France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Sweden, and the United States, and show that in all these countries women's participation in engineering professio…
Dreams of Development: Colombia's National School of Mines and Its Engineers, 1887-1970 (review)
When I started reading this study offering "a new angle on questions about the links among higher education, society, and development in Latin America" (p. ix), I wondered why I had been asked to review it. My expertise is in the history of mining education and mining. Much of Pamela Murray's book is about the economic development of Colombia and its relationship to class structure. But it is about more than that: it also covers topics that will …
Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science ed. by Marianne G. Ainley
152 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE from the point of design, production, development, and consumption through repair. She extends her analysis of technical know-how and the use of tools to the domestic environment as well, examining how the production technology has become a measuring device for male and female identity in the workplace and at home. Cockburn carefully describes the various levels of skills required for operating the computer…
Hecla: A Century of Western Mining by John Fahey
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 823 left out. For example, in chapter 8 there is a long discussion about the problems of marine boilers and engines. This is at best per ipheral to the story. Also, there are too many facts listed in the text that should have been shown in tables and charts. Use of additional charts and appendixes would have improved the text and made it more coherent while still making the additional information available to …
Hecla: A Century of Western Mining
Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science
The Rise of American Mining Engineers: A Case Study of the Colorado School of Mines
Mining engineering, like other varieties of engineering, underwent a process of professionalization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But professionalization was not necessarily accompanied by increased technical specialization-indeed, the new, collegeeducated mining engineers took over both technological and nontechnological duties.' The following study of Colorado School of Mines (CSM) mining engineering graduates extends well into…
Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Index by Caroline L. Herzenberg, and: Women of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Bibliography by Else Høyrup, and: Women in Science: Antiquity thr…
1088 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Index. By Caroline L. Herzenberg. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press (P.O. Box 260 06796), 1986. Pp. xxxix + 200. $30.00. Women of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Bibliography. By Else Hpyrup. Roskilde: Roskilde University Library (P.O. Box 258, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark), 1987. Pp. viii + 132. Paper. Available from the author. Women in Science: …
Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Index
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937 by Tim Wright
684 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Coal Mining in China’s Economy and Society 1895-1937. By Tim Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 249; tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $59.50. Tim Wright argues that the Chinese coal industry did not stagnate prior to the 1949 revolution; on the contrary, the industry experienced substantial growth that provided a basis for further post-1949 growth. It expanded as m…
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937
The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Experience
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Meeting, October 23-26, 1986
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, MEETING, OCTOBER 23—26, 1986 More than 275 people attended the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) at the Pittsburgh Hilton, October 23—26, 1986. The meeting was held simultaneously with those of the History of Science Society (HSS), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); total attendance at Pitt…
The Dearborn, Michigan, Meeting, October 17-20, 1985
577-593
The Royal Society of London’s history of trades programme: An early episode in applied science
In the seventeenth century, craftsmen made most consumer products—dyed clothing, industrial chemicals, leather goods and all other household and industrial products. By the nineteenth century, the master craftsman with his apprentices had disappeared and the factory provided industrial and consumer products. The Royal Society of London’s history of trades programme was an integral part of the process which took knowledge from the craftsman and pu…
The Rise of American Mining Engineers: A Case Study of the Colorado School of Mines
Mining engineering, like other varieties of engineering, underwent a process of professionalization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But professionalization was not necessarily accompanied by increased technical specialization-indeed, the new, collegeeducated mining engineers took over both technological and nontechnological duties.' The following study of Colorado School of Mines (CSM) mining engineering graduates extends well into…
The Royal Society of London’s history of trades programme: An early episode in applied science
In the seventeenth century, craftsmen made most consumer products—dyed clothing, industrial chemicals, leather goods and all other household and industrial products. By the nineteenth century, the master craftsman with his apprentices had disappeared and the factory provided industrial and consumer products. The Royal Society of London’s history of trades programme was an integral part of the process which took knowledge from the craftsman and pu…
The Dearborn, Michigan, Meeting, October 17-20, 1985
577-593
The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Experience
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Meeting, October 23-26, 1986
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, MEETING, OCTOBER 23—26, 1986 More than 275 people attended the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) at the Pittsburgh Hilton, October 23—26, 1986. The meeting was held simultaneously with those of the History of Science Society (HSS), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); total attendance at Pitt…
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937 by Tim Wright
684 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Coal Mining in China’s Economy and Society 1895-1937. By Tim Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1984. Pp. xiii + 249; tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $59.50. Tim Wright argues that the Chinese coal industry did not stagnate prior to the 1949 revolution; on the contrary, the industry experienced substantial growth that provided a basis for further post-1949 growth. It expanded as m…
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937
Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Index by Caroline L. Herzenberg, and: Women of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Bibliography by Else Høyrup, and: Women in Science: Antiquity thr…
1088 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Index. By Caroline L. Herzenberg. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press (P.O. Box 260 06796), 1986. Pp. xxxix + 200. $30.00. Women of Science, Technology, and Medicine: A Bibliography. By Else Hpyrup. Roskilde: Roskilde University Library (P.O. Box 258, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark), 1987. Pp. viii + 132. Paper. Available from the author. Women in Science: …
Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present: An Index
Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science ed. by Marianne G. Ainley
152 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE from the point of design, production, development, and consumption through repair. She extends her analysis of technical know-how and the use of tools to the domestic environment as well, examining how the production technology has become a measuring device for male and female identity in the workplace and at home. Cockburn carefully describes the various levels of skills required for operating the computer…
Hecla: A Century of Western Mining by John Fahey
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 823 left out. For example, in chapter 8 there is a long discussion about the problems of marine boilers and engines. This is at best per ipheral to the story. Also, there are too many facts listed in the text that should have been shown in tables and charts. Use of additional charts and appendixes would have improved the text and made it more coherent while still making the additional information available to …
Hecla: A Century of Western Mining
Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science
The Rise of American Mining Engineers: A Case Study of the Colorado School of Mines
Mining engineering, like other varieties of engineering, underwent a process of professionalization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. But professionalization was not necessarily accompanied by increased technical specialization-indeed, the new, collegeeducated mining engineers took over both technological and nontechnological duties.' The following study of Colorado School of Mines (CSM) mining engineering graduates extends well into…
Dreams of Development: Colombia's National School of Mines and Its Engineers, 1887-1970 (review)
When I started reading this study offering "a new angle on questions about the links among higher education, society, and development in Latin America" (p. ix), I wondered why I had been asked to review it. My expertise is in the history of mining education and mining. Much of Pamela Murray's book is about the economic development of Colombia and its relationship to class structure. But it is about more than that: it also covers topics that will …
Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s (review)
This study of the entry of women into engineering in Euro-American culture is important for both historians of engineering and scholars investigating gender and technology. The essays focus on "the specific circumstances under which women entered engineering" (p. 3) in Austria, Britain, [End Page 175] France, Germany, Greece, Russia, Sweden, and the United States, and show that in all these countries women's participation in engineering professio…
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