Mark Levinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Levinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Levinson |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINSON M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bidenomics
Manufacturing the Future
The Bird is on the Wing
Reviewed by: The Bird Is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane Mark Levinson (bio) The Bird Is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane. By James R. Hansen. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+273. $50/$24.95. James Hansen writes that The Bird Is on the Wing is "an offshoot of a . . . project supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration History Office…
Communications
To The Editor: When I received the April 2004 issue of Technology and Culture I followed my habit of skimming through the table of contents immediately. My interest was piqued by the title of Robert Casey's note, "An Unprepossessing Aircraft." The Dayton-Wright RB-1 might not attract the interest of a twenty-first-century audience used to flying in Boeing 747s, but that sleek, diminutive airplane was an eye-catcher when first exhibited in 1920, a…
From Engineering Science to Big Science
This collection of sixteen essays, plus an editor's introduction of sufficient value to constitute a seventeenth, is both an easy and a difficult assignment for a reviewer. It is easy because it is a model of what a scholarly collection of essays should be: it makes a coherent and cohesive statement with a clear theme, in contrast to the disjoint collections that all too often result from the need to publish conference proceedings. The difficulty…
Communications
Engineers and Engineering
1016 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Engineers and Engineering: Papers ofthe Rolt Fellows. Edited by R. Angus Buchanan. Bath: Bath University Press, 1996. Pp. ix+226; illustra tions, references, index. £49.00 (cloth). Anthologies and conference proceedings rarely are easy to review; in the present case the usual difficulties are amplified because the volume has less of a connecting theme than usual to tie together its nine papers. Neverthele…
Engineers and Engineering
Comment and Response on “The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear”
Communications COMMENT AND RESPONSE ON “THE RETRACTABLE AIRPLANE LANDING GEAR" To the Editor: It would be difficult to disagree with Edward W. Constant’s praise {Technology and Culture 35 [1994]: 447—49) of Walter Vincenti’s most recent contribution to our understanding of “what engineers know and how they know it,” “The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear and the Northrop ‘Anomaly’: Variation-Selection and the Shaping of Technology” ^Technology an…
Irving Howe
In one of his essays Ignazio Silone says that, as a child, he once laughed at the sight of a man being dragged through the street by the police. His father reproved him harshly, telling him never to make fun of a man who has been arrested. ‘Because
Iutam
Aerial Pioneers
Gleanings from Oft-Neglected Sources
Classical Mathematics
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Classical Mathematics
Aerial Pioneers
Gleanings from Oft-Neglected Sources
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Irving Howe
In one of his essays Ignazio Silone says that, as a child, he once laughed at the sight of a man being dragged through the street by the police. His father reproved him harshly, telling him never to make fun of a man who has been arrested. ‘Because
Comment and Response on “The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear”
Communications COMMENT AND RESPONSE ON “THE RETRACTABLE AIRPLANE LANDING GEAR" To the Editor: It would be difficult to disagree with Edward W. Constant’s praise {Technology and Culture 35 [1994]: 447—49) of Walter Vincenti’s most recent contribution to our understanding of “what engineers know and how they know it,” “The Retractable Airplane Landing Gear and the Northrop ‘Anomaly’: Variation-Selection and the Shaping of Technology” ^Technology an…
Engineers and Engineering
1016 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Engineers and Engineering: Papers ofthe Rolt Fellows. Edited by R. Angus Buchanan. Bath: Bath University Press, 1996. Pp. ix+226; illustra tions, references, index. £49.00 (cloth). Anthologies and conference proceedings rarely are easy to review; in the present case the usual difficulties are amplified because the volume has less of a connecting theme than usual to tie together its nine papers. Neverthele…
Engineers and Engineering
Communications
From Engineering Science to Big Science
This collection of sixteen essays, plus an editor's introduction of sufficient value to constitute a seventeenth, is both an easy and a difficult assignment for a reviewer. It is easy because it is a model of what a scholarly collection of essays should be: it makes a coherent and cohesive statement with a clear theme, in contrast to the disjoint collections that all too often result from the need to publish conference proceedings. The difficulty…
Communications
To The Editor: When I received the April 2004 issue of Technology and Culture I followed my habit of skimming through the table of contents immediately. My interest was piqued by the title of Robert Casey's note, "An Unprepossessing Aircraft." The Dayton-Wright RB-1 might not attract the interest of a twenty-first-century audience used to flying in Boeing 747s, but that sleek, diminutive airplane was an eye-catcher when first exhibited in 1920, a…
The Bird is on the Wing
Reviewed by: The Bird Is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane Mark Levinson (bio) The Bird Is on the Wing: Aerodynamics and the Progress of the American Airplane. By James R. Hansen. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+273. $50/$24.95. James Hansen writes that The Bird Is on the Wing is "an offshoot of a . . . project supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration History Office…
Manufacturing the Future
Bidenomics
Engineering (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aeronautics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aerospace Engineering (2 works) · Aerospace Engineering (2 works) · Airplane (2 works)