Edwin T Layton
Biographic Data
| ID | 266369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin T Layton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin T |
| FAMILY NAME | Layton |
| SIGNATURE | LAYTON E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America by Thomas J. Misa
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 635 war, Buffalo Forge supplied the Confederacy with iron made through techniques used in Revolutionary-era charcoal works. Surg ing demand in the decade before 1865 also exhausted the district’s ore banks. Once the bubble of postwar demand for local iron at any price burst, Buffalo Forge fell silent. Antiquated technologies, thin ores, cheap Northern and foreign iron, and freedmen’s evident de sire to work i…
A Nation of Steel: The Making of Modern America
Eloge: Melvin Kranzberg, 22 November 1917-6 December 1995
Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: England and France
Contents: Introduction Skills, coal and British industry in the eighteenth century Saint Gobain and Ravenhead Attempts to transfer English steel techniques to France in the eighteenth century Michael Alcock and the transfer of Birmingham technology to France before the Revolution Industrial espionage in the eighteenth century Copper and shipping in the eighteenth century The origins of the St Helens glass industry Recent research on the Newcomen …
Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: England and France by John R. Harris
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 685 Essays in Industry and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: England and France. By John R. Harris. Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum (Ashgate Pub lishing), 1992. Pp. x + 223; notes, index. $59.95. This important, tightly focused anthology by a leading British histo rian of technology, economics, and business presents a major thesis involving two related themes. John Harris is concerned first with craft skills. T…
"Comment on the Review of "History of Heat Transfer
I would like to set the record straight in regard to the book I edited with John Lienhard entitled History of Heat Transfer: Essays in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the ASME Heat Transfer Division. The review that appeared in Technology and Culture 32 (January 1991): 144-45 was by a respected figure in heat transfer, William M. Kays. The review was not only unfair but inaccurate. Kays incorrectly states that most of the essays were written not…
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Volume 3: The Transmission of Power . Louis C. Hunter , Lynwood Bryant
Science, American Style
The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750–1914 by R. A. Buchanan
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 143 The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750— 1914. By R. A. Buchanan. London: Jessica Kingsley, 1989. Pp. 240; notes, appendix, bibliography, index. £25.00. In producing a pioneering study of the professional development of engineering in Britain, R. A. Buchanan has chosen to write a brief, useful introductory sketch, rather than attempting a more extended, definitive treatment. …
The History of Engineering Science: An Annotated Bibliography . David F. Channell
History of Heat Transfer: Essays in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Asme Heat Transfer Division
The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750-1914
The Master Spirit of the Age: Canadian Engineers and the Politics of Professionalism . J. Rodney Millard
Scientific Technology
Science as a Form of Action: The Role of the Engineering Sciences
and the Myth of 'Engineering Science' is a paper (p. 64). Though it is a strange philosophy, there is method in his animadversions. The most fundamental assumption of Fores's philosophy is that there is only one valid form of cognition, empiricism. He believes that human activity is constrained to be continuingly (p. 81). This leads him to see the world in terms of a division between empiricism versus science. But at the heart of Fores's philosop…
Through the Looking Glass, or News from Lake Mirror Image
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930
Journal Article A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. II: Steam Power By Louis C. Hunter. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. xxv + 732 pp. $50.00.) Get access Edwin T. Layton, Jr Edwin T. Layton, Jr University of MinnesotaMinneapolis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 2, September 1986, Pages 462–463, https://doi.or…
The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926 . Leonard S. Reich Willis R. Whitney, General Electric, and the Origins of U.S. Industrial Research . George …
Emulation and Invention
Journal Article Emulation and Invention. By Brooke Hindle. (New York: New York University Press, 1981. xix + 162 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, and index. $22.50.) and Material Culture of the Wooden Age. Ed. by Brooke Hindle. (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow, 1981. vi + 394 pp. Maps, illustrations, charts, table, notes, further readings, and index. $22.50.) Get access Edwin T. Layton, Jr. Edwin T. Layton, Jr. University of Minnesota Search for oth…
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Volume I: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine . Louis C. Hunter
The History and Philosophy of Technology . George Bugliarello , Dean B. Doner
The Dynamics of Science and Technology
The Dynamics of Science and Technology: Social Values, Technical Norms and Scientific Criteria in the Development of Knowledge
I Science and Technology The Conceptual Distinction Reconsidered.- Physics - Natural Science or Technology?.- Goal Direction of Scientific Research.- II The Interrelation between Science and Technology A Close-up View at Determining Factors.- Millwrights and Engineers, Science, Social Roles, and the Evolution of the Turbine in America.- Science, Technology and Economics: The Invention of Radio as a Case Study.- On the Relation between Technology …
Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought. Langdon Winner
The Britannia Bridge: The Generation and Diffusion of Technological Knowledge . Nathan Rosenberg , Walter G. Vincenti
Technology as Knowledge
Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th-Century America
American technology went through a scientific revolution in 19th century. Technological knowledge was uprooted from its ma- trix in centuries-old craft traditions and grafted onto science. The technological community, which in 1800 had been a craft affair but little changed since middle ages, was reconstructed as a mirror- image twin of scientific community. The artisan was replaced in vanguard of technological progress by a new breed of scien- t…
The revolt of the engineers: Social responsibility and the American engineering profession
American Ideologies of Science and Engineering
Science as a Form of Action: The Role of the Engineering Sciences
and the Myth of 'Engineering Science' is a paper (p. 64). Though it is a strange philosophy, there is method in his animadversions. The most fundamental assumption of Fores's philosophy is that there is only one valid form of cognition, empiricism. He believes that human activity is constrained to be continuingly (p. 81). This leads him to see the world in terms of a division between empiricism versus science. But at the heart of Fores's philosop…
Veblen and the Engineers
Through the Looking Glass, or News from Lake Mirror Image
Scientific Technology, 1845-1900: The Hydraulic Turbine and the Origins of American Industrial Research
The Better America Federation: A Case Study of Superpatriotism
Research Article| May 01 1961 The Better America Federation: A Case Study of Superpatriotism Edwin Layton Edwin Layton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1961) 30 (2): 137–147. https://doi.org/10.2307/3636698 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions…
The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin: An Essay Review
The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin: An Essay Review Get access BURTON BLEDSTEIN . The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. New York, W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1976. xii, 354 pp. $12.95. DALE C. SMITH, PH.D. DALE C. SMITH, PH.D. candidate Department of the History of Medicine, University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, Minnesota 55455 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…
The Better America Federation: A Case Study of Superpatriotism
Research Article| May 01 1961 The Better America Federation: A Case Study of Superpatriotism Edwin Layton Edwin Layton Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1961) 30 (2): 137–147. https://doi.org/10.2307/3636698 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions…
Veblen and the Engineers
The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History
The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910, Professional Cultures in Conflict . Monte A. Calvert
The Technical Elite
The Technocrats, Prophets of Automation
Thorstein Veblen: The Carleton College Veblen Seminar Essays ed. by Carlton C. Qualey (review)
616 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The common thread running through all these chapters is the de velopment of an accommodation between the traditional German value system and what Goldbeck sees as the antithetical intellectual set of the engineer. And while Germany may have been able to avoid some of the worst social costs of industrialization, such as we know them from the case of Britain, the intellectual struggle was, not too surprising…
Thorstein Veblen: The Carleton College Veblen Seminar Essays
Readings in Technology and American Life
The revolt of the engineers: Social responsibility and the American engineering profession
Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology by Carroll W. Pursell, Jr (review)
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 99 James Watt and. the Steam Revolution. A Documentary History. Bv Eric Robinson and A. E. Musson. New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1969. Pp. x-J-228; illustrations. $17.50. E. Robinson and A. E. Musson, both senior lecturers in economic history at the University of Manchester and well known to students of the Industrial Revolution, have produced a handsome and useful com pilation of documents by and a…
Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in 19th-Century America
American technology went through a scientific revolution in 19th century. Technological knowledge was uprooted from its ma- trix in centuries-old craft traditions and grafted onto science. The technological community, which in 1800 had been a craft affair but little changed since middle ages, was reconstructed as a mirror- image twin of scientific community. The artisan was replaced in vanguard of technological progress by a new breed of scien- t…
Frederick Taylor: A Study in Personality and Innovation
Engineering in American Society, 1850-1875
Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology
The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession
Journal Article The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession. By Edwin T. Layton, Jr. (Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971. xiv + 286 pp. Notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $9.95.) Get access Gene D. Lewis Gene D. Lewis University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 4, March 1972,…
The Revolt of the Engineers: Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession
The New York Meeting, December 28-30, 1971
Organizational Notes THE NEW YORK MEETING, DECEMBER 28 -30, 1971 The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology took place at the Americana Hotel in New York City, December 28 -30, 1971. Program sessions were held in conjunction with the History of Science Society and the American Historical Association. Attendance at the various program sessions ranged from twenty to 100 interested participants. PROGRAM SUMMARIES The …
Technology as Knowledge
The San Francisco Meeting, December 27-30, 1973
Organizational Notes THE SAN FRANCISCO MEETING, DECEMBER 27-30, 1973 The sixteenth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology took place at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Fran cisco, December 27-30, 1973. Program sessions were held in conjunc tion with the History of Science Society and the American Historical Association. The topics covered a broad range of subject matter. At tendance was high and interest was brisk, so t…
Engineering Education: A Social History . George S. Emmerson
Science and Values, Patterns of Tradition and Change
Reviewsinterest, based as it is on the writings of Quintus Serenus, Pseudo-Apuleius and Sextus Placitus.But there are several unusual items rarely encountered elsewhere, such as the fascinating ceremonies for the cure of falling-sickness, for counteracting spells cast on people by means of wax images, and for preventing mice from destroying the grain harvest.On the whole the editor has treated the text with meticulous care and prodigious industry…
Technology and Social Change in America
From Know-How to Nowhere: The Development of American Technology
American Ideologies of Science and Engineering
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