David F Channell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David F Channell |
| GIVEN NAMES | David F |
| FAMILY NAME | Channell |
| SIGNATURE | CHANNELL D F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Physical Models
Reviewed by: Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design ed. by Bill Addis David F. Channell (bio) Physical Models: Their Historical and Current Use in Civil and Building Engineering Design Edited by Bill Addis. Berlin: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, 2021. Pp. 1113. Readers of Technology and Culture will find a great deal of useful information in this edited collection but may also find some frustrations. The…
Marconi
Reviewed by: Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World by Marc Raboy David F. Channell (bio) Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. By Marc Raboy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 872. Hardcover $39.95. This new biography of Guglielmo Marconi is in many aspects what could be the definitive study, especially of the role played by politics and business in Marconi's development of the wireless telegraph. The book is encyclopedic, sometim…
Biotechnology and Society
Reviewed by: Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction by Hallam Stevens David F. Channell (bio) Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction. By Hallam Stevens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 352. Handcover $30. The book is a study of the relationship between biotechnology and society that portrays biotechnology as a sociotechnical system in which some elements are biological processes. It defines biotechnology as attempting to d…
After the Breakthrough
Reviewed by: After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field * David F. Channell (bio) After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field. By Helga Nowotny and Ulrike Felt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x+210; appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95. After the Breakthrough analyzes the new field of research that emerged after the…
Pasteur's Quadrant
Reviewed by: Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation * David F. Channell (bio) Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. By Donald E. Stokes. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xiv+180; notes, index. $38.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Donald Stokes, who was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University before his death in 1997, has writ…
Engineering Labour
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 149 ning with the application of a science to technology and beginning with the intellectually messier and analytically recalcitrant domain of practice itself. There were other tensions that conditioned teach ing at Metz: internal tensions between artillerists and military engi neers, each with proud traditions and rivals during the 18th century, and external tensions with the Ecole polytechnique and the mili…
Engineering Labour
Hand's End
438 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE information about how political and religious leaders and scholars ordered time, but little is revealed about how time and its order af fected the common person living in the Middle Ages. It is disappointing that Borst devoted only eight pages to the me chanical clock and does not relate the timekeeping systems to the push to develop and use a mechanical clock. Although in his first chapter he says that t…
Action into Nature
Action into Nature
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 711 story reminds us that giant enterprise continued to play a significant, in this case predominant, role in the business of science. Somewhat contrary to expectation, perhaps, AT&T, Hughes, and other big corpo rate laboratories did most ofthe pioneering work and then licensed their technology to the smaller companies that actually brought the first lasers to market. Bromberg characterizes this relationship a…
The Vital Machine
The mechanical and the organic The mechanical world view: The clockwork universe Mechanical organisms: From automata to clockwork humans The organic world view: from magic to vitalism Organic machines: technology as plant The emergence of the bionic world view The vital machine Ethics in the age of the vital machine
Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti
1150 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE conception of technology leads her unwisely to extend the relevance of underground images to a postindustrialism better represented by communication metaphors; modern technological environments con strued in terms of message flow and information hierarchies have few spatial coordinates, mythical or otherwise. Even so, her provocative study illuminates the history of technological metaphors, especially tho…
The History of Engineering Science
Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition
Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition
332 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition: Part II (1879— 1886). Edited by Thomas E. Jeffrey. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America (44 North Market Street 21701), 1987. $3,900; Guide only, $35. Part II of the selective microfilm edition of the Thomas A. Edison Papers continues the professional editing, attention to detail, and scholarship evident in Part I (for an overall view of …
Scientific Technology
Engineering Science as Theory and Practice
In his paper Transformations and the Myth of 'Engineering Science,' Michael Fores argues against accepting the concept of engineering science. But the paper itself raises many more questions than it answers. Although there may be some valid reasons to debate the concept of engineering science, Fores's attack is based on some serious misunderstandings of the nature of history, philosophy, and science. The core of Fores's argument seems to be that …
Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition
One Hundred Years of Science and Technology in Texas
Before Mickey
This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking character…
The Harmony of Theory and Practice
One of the problems that has engaged historians of technology is the relationship between science and technology. For some time historians accepted the idea, still firmly held by many scientists, that engineering is science. That is, engineering simply applies the results and discoveries of science without making any fundamental changes in the structure of those scientific discoveries. This model of the interaction of science and technology has b…
The Evolution of Mechanics
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854
principal architect of rational thermodynamics seemed to deserve new development, the results of which may be seen in my recent papers on the efficiency of irreversible engines, absolute temperatures, and the teaching of thermodynamics to undergraduate engineers
Technology as Style
Technology and the Humanities-The Wingspread Conference
Engineering Science as Theory and Practice
In his paper Transformations and the Myth of 'Engineering Science,' Michael Fores argues against accepting the concept of engineering science. But the paper itself raises many more questions than it answers. Although there may be some valid reasons to debate the concept of engineering science, Fores's attack is based on some serious misunderstandings of the nature of history, philosophy, and science. The core of Fores's argument seems to be that …
The Harmony of Theory and Practice
One of the problems that has engaged historians of technology is the relationship between science and technology. For some time historians accepted the idea, still firmly held by many scientists, that engineering is science. That is, engineering simply applies the results and discoveries of science without making any fundamental changes in the structure of those scientific discoveries. This model of the interaction of science and technology has b…
Technology as Style
Technology and the Humanities-The Wingspread Conference
The Visionary Eye
The Harmony of Theory and Practice
One of the problems that has engaged historians of technology is the relationship between science and technology. For some time historians accepted the idea, still firmly held by many scientists, that engineering is science. That is, engineering simply applies the results and discoveries of science without making any fundamental changes in the structure of those scientific discoveries. This model of the interaction of science and technology has b…
The Evolution of Mechanics
The Tragicomical History of Thermodynamics, 1822-1854
principal architect of rational thermodynamics seemed to deserve new development, the results of which may be seen in my recent papers on the efficiency of irreversible engines, absolute temperatures, and the teaching of thermodynamics to undergraduate engineers
Before Mickey
This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking character…
Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition
One Hundred Years of Science and Technology in Texas
Engineering Science as Theory and Practice
In his paper Transformations and the Myth of 'Engineering Science,' Michael Fores argues against accepting the concept of engineering science. But the paper itself raises many more questions than it answers. Although there may be some valid reasons to debate the concept of engineering science, Fores's attack is based on some serious misunderstandings of the nature of history, philosophy, and science. The core of Fores's argument seems to be that …
Scientific Technology
Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition
Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition
332 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Thomas A. Edison Papers. A Selective Microfilm Edition: Part II (1879— 1886). Edited by Thomas E. Jeffrey. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America (44 North Market Street 21701), 1987. $3,900; Guide only, $35. Part II of the selective microfilm edition of the Thomas A. Edison Papers continues the professional editing, attention to detail, and scholarship evident in Part I (for an overall view of …
Society and Technological Change by Rudi Volti
1150 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE conception of technology leads her unwisely to extend the relevance of underground images to a postindustrialism better represented by communication metaphors; modern technological environments con strued in terms of message flow and information hierarchies have few spatial coordinates, mythical or otherwise. Even so, her provocative study illuminates the history of technological metaphors, especially tho…
The History of Engineering Science
The Vital Machine
The mechanical and the organic The mechanical world view: The clockwork universe Mechanical organisms: From automata to clockwork humans The organic world view: from magic to vitalism Organic machines: technology as plant The emergence of the bionic world view The vital machine Ethics in the age of the vital machine
Action into Nature
Action into Nature
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 711 story reminds us that giant enterprise continued to play a significant, in this case predominant, role in the business of science. Somewhat contrary to expectation, perhaps, AT&T, Hughes, and other big corpo rate laboratories did most ofthe pioneering work and then licensed their technology to the smaller companies that actually brought the first lasers to market. Bromberg characterizes this relationship a…
Hand's End
438 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE information about how political and religious leaders and scholars ordered time, but little is revealed about how time and its order af fected the common person living in the Middle Ages. It is disappointing that Borst devoted only eight pages to the me chanical clock and does not relate the timekeeping systems to the push to develop and use a mechanical clock. Although in his first chapter he says that t…
Engineering Labour
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 149 ning with the application of a science to technology and beginning with the intellectually messier and analytically recalcitrant domain of practice itself. There were other tensions that conditioned teach ing at Metz: internal tensions between artillerists and military engi neers, each with proud traditions and rivals during the 18th century, and external tensions with the Ecole polytechnique and the mili…
Engineering Labour
After the Breakthrough
Reviewed by: After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field * David F. Channell (bio) After the Breakthrough: The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field. By Helga Nowotny and Ulrike Felt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x+210; appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95. After the Breakthrough analyzes the new field of research that emerged after the…
Pasteur's Quadrant
Reviewed by: Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation * David F. Channell (bio) Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation. By Donald E. Stokes. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xiv+180; notes, index. $38.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Donald Stokes, who was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University before his death in 1997, has writ…
Marconi
Reviewed by: Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World by Marc Raboy David F. Channell (bio) Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World. By Marc Raboy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. 872. Hardcover $39.95. This new biography of Guglielmo Marconi is in many aspects what could be the definitive study, especially of the role played by politics and business in Marconi's development of the wireless telegraph. The book is encyclopedic, sometim…
Biotechnology and Society
Reviewed by: Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction by Hallam Stevens David F. Channell (bio) Biotechnology and Society: An Introduction. By Hallam Stevens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 352. Handcover $30. The book is a study of the relationship between biotechnology and society that portrays biotechnology as a sociotechnical system in which some elements are biological processes. It defines biotechnology as attempting to d…
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