Edwin Layton

Biographic Data

ID3629378
NAMEEdwin Layton
GIVEN NAMESEdwin
FAMILY NAMELayton
SIGNATURELAYTON E
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
H-INDEX3

  • The Puzzling Illness of Charles Darwin: An Essay Review

    Edwin T Layton, Robert Rosenthal et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of…1977Cited by: 1

    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…

  • From Know-How to Nowhere: The Development of American Technology

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1976

  • Science and Values, Patterns of Tradition and Change

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1975

    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…

  • Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology by Carroll W. Pursell, Jr (review)

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin LaytonARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

    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

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin LaytonARTICLETechnology and Culture1971Cited by: 15

    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

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • Engineering in American Society, 1850-1875

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • Readings in Technology and American Life

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1970

  • Thorstein Veblen: The Carleton College Veblen Seminar Essays ed. by Carlton C. Qualey (review)

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin LaytonARTICLETechnology and Culture1969

    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

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1969

  • The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910, Professional Cultures in Conflict . Monte A. Calvert

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin LaytonARTICLEIsis1967

  • The Technical Elite

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1967

  • The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1966

  • Veblen and the Engineers

    Open AccessEdwin T Layton, Edwin LaytonARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1962Cited by: 6

  • The Better America Federation: A Case Study of Superpatriotism

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin LaytonARTICLEPacific Historical Review1961Cited by: 3

    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…