Edmund N Todd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmund N Todd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmund N |
| FAMILY NAME | Todd |
| SIGNATURE | TODD E N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Haven |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Vom “nationalen” zum “sozialistischen” Selbst: Zur Erfahrungs-geschichte deutscher Chemiker und Ingenieure im 20. Jahrhundert (review)
The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (review)
Reviewed by: The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany Edmund N. Todd (bio) The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany. By David Blackbourn. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Pp. xii+466. $29.95. After reading into the new literature on North America’s western rivers while resident at Stanford University in the early 1990s, David Blackbourn decided to return to material aspects of Germa…
The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice (review)
Reviewed by: The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice Edmund N. Todd (bio) The Morals of Measurement: Accuracy, Irony, and Trust in Late Victorian Electrical Practice. By Graeme J. N. Gooday. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxv+285. $85. It may be that what is real can be measured, but morals and trust are components of measuring. Between the 1860s and 1890s, trust played an impor…
Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society: Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany, 1800-1918 (review)
Jürgen Kocka has made major contributions to the study of German business history, white-collar workers, and the bourgeoisie, as well as the latter's relationships to social and political developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Kocka now holds a chair for the history of the industrial world at the Free University of Berlin, and the essays in this volume demonstrate the range of his interests. Although he began his career in the [E…
"Die "Tönenden Funken: Geschichte eines frühen drahtlosen Kommunikationssystems, 1905-1914. Michael Friedewald
Elektrizitat in der Geistesgeschichte. Klaus Plitzner
Mobilitat fur alle: Geschichte des offentlichen Personennahverkehrs in der Stadt zwischen technischem Fortschritt und sozialer Pflicht (review)
Reviewed by: Mobilität für alle: Geschichte des öffentlichen Personennahverkers in der Stadt zwischen technischem Fortschritt und sozialer Pflicht * Edmund N. Todd (bio) Mobilität für alle: Geschichte des öffentlichen Personennahverkers in der Stadt zwischen technischem Fortschritt und sozialer Pflicht. Edited by Hans-Liudger Dienel and Barbara Schmucki. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1997. Pp. 269; illustrations, tables, notes/references, bibliograph…
Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power by Gary Herrigel
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 777 rated markets and technological change. He figures that these two factors explain some three million job losses, “enough that, with a reasonable multiplier, they could account for the entire unemploy ment experience of the 1930s” (p. 313). TechnologicalInnovation and the GreatDepression addresses some crit ical issues. We do not know why consumption declined so sharply in 1929, nor can we explain why unem…
Industrial Constructions: The Sources of German Industrial Power
Science, Technology, and National Socialism (review)
Reviewed by: Science, Technology, and National Socialism Edmund N. Todd Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker, eds. Science, Technology, and National Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xix + 422 pp. Ill. $59.95. Just after the end of World War I a biology teacher, Otto Rabes, asserted that biology education in schools should provide a basis for understanding politics. He and his fellow biologists wished to increase their significa…
Industrialisierung—Begriffe and Prozesse: Festschrift Akos Paulinyi zum 65. Geburtstag ed. by Volker Benad-Wagenhoff
technology and culture Book Reviews 349 of physical problems created difficulties even for Newton when he ventured into fluid mechanics. Maffioli refers briefly to Leonardo da Vinci, and this seems appro priate. However, some interesting conclusions could perhaps be achieved by examining fully Leonardo’s manuscripts (avoiding the published anthologies, including Arconati’s, and resorting instead to the originals). It seems unlikely that his note…
Industrialisierung-Begriffe and Prozesse: Festschrift Akos Paulinyi zum 65. Geburtstag
Konzepte von Elektrizitatsversorgung und Elektrizitatswirtschaft; Die Entstehung eines neuen Fachgebietes der Technikwissenschaften zwischen 1880 und 1945. Norbert Gilson
Erwin Marx (1893-1980): Ingenieurwissenschaftler in Braunschweig, und die Forschung und Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der elektrischen Energieubertragung auf weite Entfernungen zwischen 1918 und 1950 . H…
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848 by Eric Dorn Brose
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1033 formulate a plan to tap the Colorado River. In 1952, Freese prepared a groundbreaking document when on behalf of all the state’s engi neers he presented a statewide water plan entitled “A Water Policy for Texans.” Always innovative, Freese and Nichols was one of the first organiza tions to use computers, preparing an analysis of water distribution networks in 1957. Work in the 1960s reflected a new natio…
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848
Energiewirtschaft, Automatisierung, Information seit 1914 . Hans-Joachim Braun , Walter Kaiser
Werner von Siemens: Erfinder und internationaler Unternehmer. Wilfried Feldenkirchen
Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas. Norbert Wiener
Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946-1970 . Robert L. Frost
Electric Ploughs in Wilhelmine Germany: Failure of an Agricultural System
Prior to World War I, electric ploughs held great promise in Germany. They could carry out deep ploughing as well as, or better than, steam ploughs, and they promised to solve social and political problems, such as the increasing labour shortages east of the Elbe. But they found little success because, as with early tractors, agriculture had to be modified too much to make them work. Unlike tractors, electric ploughs did not prove to be flexible …
Another Germany: A Reconsideration of the Imperial Era . Jack R. Dukes , Joachim Remak
Industry, State, and Electrical Technology in the Ruhr Circa 1900
Constructing electric power and light systems early in the twentieth century challenged existing institutional boundaries. Large-scale technological systems had a wide variety of internal components, the development of which provided new opportunities to serve more customers and wider areas. Such was the case with electricity. Deployment of electric power systems required renegotiation of institutional boundaries, as leaders of various organized …
Unternehmensstrategien und technischer Fortschritt: Die deutsche und die britische Stahlindustrie 1865-1895. Ulrich Wengenroth
Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930 . Christopher Armstrong , H. V. Nelles
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848
A Tale of Three Cities: Electrification and the Structure of Choice in the Ruhr, 1886-1900
Technological systems often take on characteristics of their social and political contexts. This was particularly clear during the 1890s, when alternating-current and direct-current systems offered different advantages. In the late nineteenth century, the two cities of Dortmund and Essen were expansive, and introduced electric light and power systems using alternating current to promote that tendency. Bochum was more locally oriented, and chose a…
Electric Ploughs in Wilhelmine Germany: Failure of an Agricultural System
Prior to World War I, electric ploughs held great promise in Germany. They could carry out deep ploughing as well as, or better than, steam ploughs, and they promised to solve social and political problems, such as the increasing labour shortages east of the Elbe. But they found little success because, as with early tractors, agriculture had to be modified too much to make them work. Unlike tractors, electric ploughs did not prove to be flexible …
Industry, State, and Electrical Technology in the Ruhr Circa 1900
Constructing electric power and light systems early in the twentieth century challenged existing institutional boundaries. Large-scale technological systems had a wide variety of internal components, the development of which provided new opportunities to serve more customers and wider areas. Such was the case with electricity. Deployment of electric power systems required renegotiation of institutional boundaries, as leaders of various organized …
The Siemens Company: Its Historical Role in the Progress of Electrical Engineering
Naturwissenschaft, Technik und NS-Ideologie: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte des Dritten Reiches . Herbert Mehrtens , Steffen Richter
Technik-Geschichte: Historische Beitrage und neuere Ansatze. Ulrich Troitzsch , Gabriele Wohlauf
Die Eisen- und Stahlindustrie des Ruhrgebiets 1879-1914
Militarism: The History of an International Debate 1861-1979
Introduction 1. The debate prior to 1914 2. The impact of two total wars 3. The debate on German and Japanese militarism 4. Civil-military relations in the Third World 5. The military-industrial complex 6. Towards a definition: the two types of militarism Conclusion Bibliography
Wissenschaft, Staat, Mazene: Anfange moderner Wissenschaftspolitik in Grossbritannien 1850-1920. Peter Alter
The Cambridge Meeting, November 1-4, 1984
Organizational Notes THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING, NOVEMBER 1-4, 1984 More than 250 people attended the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,. Cambridge, November 1-4, 1984. Jeffrey Sturchio (Center for History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania) chaired the Program Committee, which included Susan Douglas (Hampshire College) and Stuart W. Leslie ( Johns Hopkins Univ…
Technik, Ingenieure und Gesellschaft: Geschichte des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure 1856-1981
Electricity, Industry and Class in South Africa
The Dearborn, Michigan, Meeting, October 17-20, 1985
577-593
Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930 . Christopher Armstrong , H. V. Nelles
A Tale of Three Cities: Electrification and the Structure of Choice in the Ruhr, 1886-1900
Technological systems often take on characteristics of their social and political contexts. This was particularly clear during the 1890s, when alternating-current and direct-current systems offered different advantages. In the late nineteenth century, the two cities of Dortmund and Essen were expansive, and introduced electric light and power systems using alternating current to promote that tendency. Bochum was more locally oriented, and chose a…
Mein Feld ist die Welt: Musterbucher und Katologe 1784-1914
Unternehmensstrategien und technischer Fortschritt: Die deutsche und die britische Stahlindustrie 1865-1895. Ulrich Wengenroth
Industry, State, and Electrical Technology in the Ruhr Circa 1900
Constructing electric power and light systems early in the twentieth century challenged existing institutional boundaries. Large-scale technological systems had a wide variety of internal components, the development of which provided new opportunities to serve more customers and wider areas. Such was the case with electricity. Deployment of electric power systems required renegotiation of institutional boundaries, as leaders of various organized …
Another Germany: A Reconsideration of the Imperial Era . Jack R. Dukes , Joachim Remak
Electric Ploughs in Wilhelmine Germany: Failure of an Agricultural System
Prior to World War I, electric ploughs held great promise in Germany. They could carry out deep ploughing as well as, or better than, steam ploughs, and they promised to solve social and political problems, such as the increasing labour shortages east of the Elbe. But they found little success because, as with early tractors, agriculture had to be modified too much to make them work. Unlike tractors, electric ploughs did not prove to be flexible …
Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946-1970 . Robert L. Frost
Energiewirtschaft, Automatisierung, Information seit 1914 . Hans-Joachim Braun , Walter Kaiser
Werner von Siemens: Erfinder und internationaler Unternehmer. Wilfried Feldenkirchen
Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas. Norbert Wiener
Erwin Marx (1893-1980): Ingenieurwissenschaftler in Braunschweig, und die Forschung und Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der elektrischen Energieubertragung auf weite Entfernungen zwischen 1918 und 1950 . H…
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848 by Eric Dorn Brose
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1033 formulate a plan to tap the Colorado River. In 1952, Freese prepared a groundbreaking document when on behalf of all the state’s engi neers he presented a statewide water plan entitled “A Water Policy for Texans.” Always innovative, Freese and Nichols was one of the first organiza tions to use computers, preparing an analysis of water distribution networks in 1957. Work in the 1960s reflected a new natio…
The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848
Science, Technology, and National Socialism (review)
Reviewed by: Science, Technology, and National Socialism Edmund N. Todd Monika Renneberg and Mark Walker, eds. Science, Technology, and National Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xix + 422 pp. Ill. $59.95. Just after the end of World War I a biology teacher, Otto Rabes, asserted that biology education in schools should provide a basis for understanding politics. He and his fellow biologists wished to increase their significa…
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