Eda Kranakis
Biographic Data
| ID | 281144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eda Kranakis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eda |
| FAMILY NAME | Kranakis |
| SIGNATURE | KRANAKIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Tale of Two Inventions: Monsanto, Biotechnology, and the Geography of Postmodern Science
This essay explores the geography of postmodern science in nonacademic settings, focusing on two research breakthroughs by Monsanto scientists, in 1985–1986 and 1989–1991, that created plants resistant to the company's herbicide, glyphosate. The essay follows this new knowledge as it was mobilized into refereed publications and patents, comparing and contrasting the two forms of scientific discourse that resulted. The patents are then traced furt…
Technology-dependent commons: The radio spectrum
Technology-dependent commons: The radio spectrum
Things owned in common -or jointly -as the case may be, abound. They abound today as they did in earlier times, in urban as well as in rural settings, and in high tech artefacts like Wikipedia as well as in traditional symbols. Usually such commonly held goods do not create any noteworthy problems for those who share an interest in them. But in some cases they do represent an intrinsically difficult situation for stakeholders: their governance an…
And it is, it is a glorious thing / To be a Pirate King: Adrian Johns, Piracy
Adrian Johns's study of intellectual property (IP) battles combines a cyclical view of history with a Kuhnian model of transformative paradigm shifts. He explores copyright and patents, focusing on publishing, telecommunications (radio, telephone, internet), and analog and digital media. Johns examines sites of struggle, contention, and negotiation-conceptual and geographical-that have defined the meaning and limits of IP since the early modern e…
Looking Into the Mirror of Time: Reflections on the Life and Work of Edwin T. Layton Jr., 1928-2009
Looking Into the Mirror of Time:Reflections on the Life and Work of Edwin T. Layton Jr., 1928-2009 Eda Kranakis (bio) Looking into the mirror of time, back to the fall of 1975, the first reflection I see in my mind's eye is the image of Ed Layton's guardian angel—Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia—looking down from his office wall at the University of Minnesota. That autumn he was a newly appointed professor at the university, and I was a new Ph.D. stud…
Heat, Power, and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services (review)
Patents and Power: European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization
Patent system system integration has altered the balance between the interests of patent holders and society. Two turning points in this process are examined: the 1883 Paris Convention, and the1978 launch of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention. The article shows how these treaties evolved and how further integration occurred after their implementation, following unforeseen/unintended paths stemming partly from technol…
Surveying Technology and History: Essential Tensions and Postmodern Possibilities
Thomas J. Misa's Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present represents a new kind of survey history of technology. Traditional surveys take technology as their starting point (rather than politics and culture) and hence follow a periodization distinct from traditional political history. They also tend to sacrifice depth to achieve encyclopedic coverage. Misa's survey takes politics and culture as its star…
Politics, Business, and European Information Technology Policy: From the treaty of Rome to Unidata, 1958–1975
The first section of the chapter provides an overview of European institutions, particularly the Common Market, known formally as the European Economic Community (EEC). This overview highlights the legal foundations on which European industrial policy was built, and the institutional dynamics that shaped its path of development. The section titled ‘The Emergence of SRI Policy within the EEC, 1960-1965’ surveys the emergence of European industrial…
Fixing the Blame: Organizational Culture and the Quebec Bridge Collapse
The collapse of the Quebec Bridge in 1907 remains "one of the world's major structural failures," writes Eda Kranakis in "Fixing the Blame: Organizational Culture and the Quebec Bridge Collapse," one still studied by engineering students as an object lesson. But the common understanding of what caused the partially completed bridge to collapse is flawed, Kranakis argues. The Royal Commission that investigated blamed errors in judgment by two engi…
Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America
Journal Article Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America. By Eda Kranakis. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. xiv, 453 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-262-11217-5.) Get access Elizabeth Brand Monroe Elizabeth Brand Monroe Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Engineering and the Mind's Eye by Eugene S. Ferguson
Book Reviews Engineering and the Mind’ s Eye. By Eugene S. Ferguson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xiv+241; illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). This book explores the nature and history of engineering design. It extends ideas developed by Eugene Ferguson in his pioneering article, “The Mind’s Eye: Nonverbal Thought in Technology” {Science 197 [August 26, 1977]: 827-36). Like the article, the argument presented in…
Engineering and the Mind's Eye
A World without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Social Determinants of Engineering Practice: A Comparative View of France and America in the Nineteenth Century
This paper makes a comparative analysis of the distinct engineering cultures of France and the United States in the nineteenth century. The object is to explain why French engineers characteristically excelled in theoretical analysis while tending to neglect empirical research, whereas just the opposite was true of American engineers. Toward this end, the paper considers differences in the structure and organization of the engineering community i…
Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early Nineteenth-Century Cable Suspension Bridge . Tom F. Peters
Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany
Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany by Donald E. Thomas, Jr
1046 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Long before McLuhan’s “global village” was thought of, such new forms of communication seemed to promise the future annihilation of “Space, Time and Difference” and encouraged fantasies of reach ing out to the “others,” both on the earth and on other planets, creating a wider “kinship” and obliterating cultural difference. Over all, Marvin argues that the importance of early electrical communi cation li…
Histoire de l'Ecole Polytechnique
The History of Civil Engineering since 1600: An Annotated Bibliography by Darwin H. Stapleton, Roger L. Shumaker
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 145 and engineering, and his assiduous attention to the work of other his torians. Appendixes give translations of a manuscript paper of Car not and of notes in which he recorded his doubts about the conservation of caloric. Here Fox again provides commentary, as well as a general discussion of surviving Carnot manuscripts. He con cludes with a useful bibliography and index. Fox’s translation not only makes …
Technology Assessment and the Study of History
Research in technology assessment, because of its necessarily broad character, must draw upon a wide range of disciplines. The present essay is concerned in particular with what technology assessment can draw from the discipline of history-what it can gain from historical knowledge and historical perspectives. Starting from a consideration of the general aims of both history and technology assessment, the article investigates their points of inte…
The History of Civil Engineering since 1600: An Annotated Bibliography
La Technologie introuvable: Recherche sur la definition et l'unite de la technologie a partir de quelques modeles du XVIIIe et XIXe siecles
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…
Bridge to the Future: A Centennial Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. Margaret Latimer , Brooke Hindle , Melvin Kranzberg
Social Determinants of Engineering Practice: A Comparative View of France and America in the Nineteenth Century
This paper makes a comparative analysis of the distinct engineering cultures of France and the United States in the nineteenth century. The object is to explain why French engineers characteristically excelled in theoretical analysis while tending to neglect empirical research, whereas just the opposite was true of American engineers. Toward this end, the paper considers differences in the structure and organization of the engineering community i…
Patents and Power: European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization
Patent system system integration has altered the balance between the interests of patent holders and society. Two turning points in this process are examined: the 1883 Paris Convention, and the1978 launch of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention. The article shows how these treaties evolved and how further integration occurred after their implementation, following unforeseen/unintended paths stemming partly from technol…
Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America
Journal Article Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America. By Eda Kranakis. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. xiv, 453 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-262-11217-5.) Get access Elizabeth Brand Monroe Elizabeth Brand Monroe Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Surveying Technology and History: Essential Tensions and Postmodern Possibilities
Thomas J. Misa's Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present represents a new kind of survey history of technology. Traditional surveys take technology as their starting point (rather than politics and culture) and hence follow a periodization distinct from traditional political history. They also tend to sacrifice depth to achieve encyclopedic coverage. Misa's survey takes politics and culture as its star…
Fixing the Blame: Organizational Culture and the Quebec Bridge Collapse
The collapse of the Quebec Bridge in 1907 remains "one of the world's major structural failures," writes Eda Kranakis in "Fixing the Blame: Organizational Culture and the Quebec Bridge Collapse," one still studied by engineering students as an object lesson. But the common understanding of what caused the partially completed bridge to collapse is flawed, Kranakis argues. The Royal Commission that investigated blamed errors in judgment by two engi…
Les mécaniciens grecs: La naissance de la technologie. Bertrand Gille
The French Connection: Giffard's Injector and the Nature of Heat
In 1858 a Parisian inventor, Henri Giffard, patented the injector, a device to feed water into steam boilers. In 1908 Henri Poincare, in his Thermodynamique, presented an original theoretical analysis of the injector.1 That a scientist of Poincare's stature would take interest in a steam-engine apparatus that had been introduced fifty years earlier may seem surprising. However, Poincare was only one of a large number of scientists and engineers i…
A History of Theory of Structures in the Nineteenth Century . T. M. Charlton
Dictionnaire des ingenieurs militaires, 1691-1791 . Anne Blanchard Le Corps des Ponts et Chaussees . A. Brunot , R. Coquand
La Technologie introuvable: Recherche sur la definition et l'unite de la technologie a partir de quelques modeles du XVIIIe et XIXe siecles
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…
Bridge to the Future: A Centennial Celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. Margaret Latimer , Brooke Hindle , Melvin Kranzberg
Histoire de l'Ecole Polytechnique
The History of Civil Engineering since 1600: An Annotated Bibliography by Darwin H. Stapleton, Roger L. Shumaker
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 145 and engineering, and his assiduous attention to the work of other his torians. Appendixes give translations of a manuscript paper of Car not and of notes in which he recorded his doubts about the conservation of caloric. Here Fox again provides commentary, as well as a general discussion of surviving Carnot manuscripts. He con cludes with a useful bibliography and index. Fox’s translation not only makes …
Technology Assessment and the Study of History
Research in technology assessment, because of its necessarily broad character, must draw upon a wide range of disciplines. The present essay is concerned in particular with what technology assessment can draw from the discipline of history-what it can gain from historical knowledge and historical perspectives. Starting from a consideration of the general aims of both history and technology assessment, the article investigates their points of inte…
The History of Civil Engineering since 1600: An Annotated Bibliography
Social Determinants of Engineering Practice: A Comparative View of France and America in the Nineteenth Century
This paper makes a comparative analysis of the distinct engineering cultures of France and the United States in the nineteenth century. The object is to explain why French engineers characteristically excelled in theoretical analysis while tending to neglect empirical research, whereas just the opposite was true of American engineers. Toward this end, the paper considers differences in the structure and organization of the engineering community i…
Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early Nineteenth-Century Cable Suspension Bridge . Tom F. Peters
Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany
Diesel: Technology and Society in Industrial Germany by Donald E. Thomas, Jr
1046 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Long before McLuhan’s “global village” was thought of, such new forms of communication seemed to promise the future annihilation of “Space, Time and Difference” and encouraged fantasies of reach ing out to the “others,” both on the earth and on other planets, creating a wider “kinship” and obliterating cultural difference. Over all, Marvin argues that the importance of early electrical communi cation li…
A World without Women: The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Engineering and the Mind's Eye by Eugene S. Ferguson
Book Reviews Engineering and the Mind’ s Eye. By Eugene S. Ferguson. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992. Pp. xiv+241; illustrations, notes, index. $24.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). This book explores the nature and history of engineering design. It extends ideas developed by Eugene Ferguson in his pioneering article, “The Mind’s Eye: Nonverbal Thought in Technology” {Science 197 [August 26, 1977]: 827-36). Like the article, the argument presented in…
Engineering and the Mind's Eye
Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America
Journal Article Constructing a Bridge: An Exploration of Engineering Culture, Design, and Research in Nineteenth-Century France and America. By Eda Kranakis. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997. xiv, 453 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-262-11217-5.) Get access Elizabeth Brand Monroe Elizabeth Brand Monroe Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Politics, Business, and European Information Technology Policy: From the treaty of Rome to Unidata, 1958–1975
The first section of the chapter provides an overview of European institutions, particularly the Common Market, known formally as the European Economic Community (EEC). This overview highlights the legal foundations on which European industrial policy was built, and the institutional dynamics that shaped its path of development. The section titled ‘The Emergence of SRI Policy within the EEC, 1960-1965’ surveys the emergence of European industrial…
Fixing the Blame: Organizational Culture and the Quebec Bridge Collapse
The collapse of the Quebec Bridge in 1907 remains "one of the world's major structural failures," writes Eda Kranakis in "Fixing the Blame: Organizational Culture and the Quebec Bridge Collapse," one still studied by engineering students as an object lesson. But the common understanding of what caused the partially completed bridge to collapse is flawed, Kranakis argues. The Royal Commission that investigated blamed errors in judgment by two engi…
Surveying Technology and History: Essential Tensions and Postmodern Possibilities
Thomas J. Misa's Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present represents a new kind of survey history of technology. Traditional surveys take technology as their starting point (rather than politics and culture) and hence follow a periodization distinct from traditional political history. They also tend to sacrifice depth to achieve encyclopedic coverage. Misa's survey takes politics and culture as its star…
Patents and Power: European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization
Patent system system integration has altered the balance between the interests of patent holders and society. Two turning points in this process are examined: the 1883 Paris Convention, and the1978 launch of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention. The article shows how these treaties evolved and how further integration occurred after their implementation, following unforeseen/unintended paths stemming partly from technol…
Heat, Power, and Light: Revolutions in Energy Services (review)
Looking Into the Mirror of Time: Reflections on the Life and Work of Edwin T. Layton Jr., 1928-2009
Looking Into the Mirror of Time:Reflections on the Life and Work of Edwin T. Layton Jr., 1928-2009 Eda Kranakis (bio) Looking into the mirror of time, back to the fall of 1975, the first reflection I see in my mind's eye is the image of Ed Layton's guardian angel—Albrecht Dürer's Melencolia—looking down from his office wall at the University of Minnesota. That autumn he was a newly appointed professor at the university, and I was a new Ph.D. stud…
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