Ross Bassett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Bassett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassett |
| SIGNATURE | BASSETT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6770-5433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Richard Hornsey, Imperial Engineers
Educational institutions, like most institutions, are so big and complex that normally their chroniclers are forced to make a series of focusing decisions.What time period to write about?Should the focus be on students, faculty, culture, or something else?The Royal Indian Engineering College, located at Coopers Hill, just west of London (and hereafter Coopers Hill) had a short enough life (35 years) and was a small enough school (1623 total gradu…
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
Business is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about the countercultural movements of the 1960s. But in From Head Shops to Whole Foods Joshua Clark Davis makes a compelling case that the businesses he examines provide a useful vantage point on the counterculture while also allowing a new perspective on today's business. The book is framed around two neologisms: “activist entrepreneurs” and “participatory economics.” Davis clai…
The Technological Indian
In the late 1800s India seemed to be left behind by the Industrial Revolution. Today there are many technological Indians around the world but relatively few focus on India's problems. Ross Bassett—drawing on a database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through 2000—explains the role of MIT in this outcome
Internet Alley
Reviewed by: Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005 Ross Bassett (bio) Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005. By Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xi+242. $30. The success of Silicon Valley as a technology region has encouraged boosters from other areas to claim some special distinction for their area or deliberately try to create an analogous high-tech region. Oregon has the “Silic…
MIT-Trained Swadeshis
During the colonial period, roughly one hundred degrees were awarded by MIT to Indians. However their importance to India and to the historical understanding of India is disproportionate to their numbers. These men—and they were all men—often from elite families, formed a technological elite in the last days of colonial India. Their careers show a technological nationalism in India—several men came from families associated with Gandhi—and represe…
Aligning India in the Cold War Era
Aligning India in the Cold War EraIndian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and Computing in India and the United States Ross Bassett (bio) In July 1963, a chartered DC-7 landed at a military airbase in Kanpur, India, a large but unremarkable city on the Ganges River, in a region often considered backward by Indians. The plane held an International Business Machines (IBM) 1620 computer, commonly used in American unive…
The Mysteries of the Trade
Reviewed by: The Mysteries of the Trade:Christophe Lécuyer’s Making Silicon Valley Ross Bassett (bio) It is a minor scandal that Silicon Valley, the world's preeminent technology region and the subject of a great deal of work by journalists and scholars, has only now received its first book-length treatment by a historian of technology: Christophe Lécuyer's Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970 (Cambridge, Mass.…
Endless Frontier
Reviewed by: Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century* Ross Bassett (bio) Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. By G. Pascal Zachary. New York: The Free Press, 1997. Pp. viii+518; illustrations, notes/references, bibliography, index. $32.50. Vannevar Bush has received more attention from historians of technology and science than any other twentieth-century engineer, but until now no biography …
Britain and Europe
Aligning India in the Cold War Era
Aligning India in the Cold War EraIndian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and Computing in India and the United States Ross Bassett (bio) In July 1963, a chartered DC-7 landed at a military airbase in Kanpur, India, a large but unremarkable city on the Ganges River, in a region often considered backward by Indians. The plane held an International Business Machines (IBM) 1620 computer, commonly used in American unive…
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
Business is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about the countercultural movements of the 1960s. But in From Head Shops to Whole Foods Joshua Clark Davis makes a compelling case that the businesses he examines provide a useful vantage point on the counterculture while also allowing a new perspective on today's business. The book is framed around two neologisms: “activist entrepreneurs” and “participatory economics.” Davis clai…
Britain and Europe
Endless Frontier
Reviewed by: Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century* Ross Bassett (bio) Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. By G. Pascal Zachary. New York: The Free Press, 1997. Pp. viii+518; illustrations, notes/references, bibliography, index. $32.50. Vannevar Bush has received more attention from historians of technology and science than any other twentieth-century engineer, but until now no biography …
The Mysteries of the Trade
Reviewed by: The Mysteries of the Trade:Christophe Lécuyer’s Making Silicon Valley Ross Bassett (bio) It is a minor scandal that Silicon Valley, the world's preeminent technology region and the subject of a great deal of work by journalists and scholars, has only now received its first book-length treatment by a historian of technology: Christophe Lécuyer's Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930–1970 (Cambridge, Mass.…
Internet Alley
Reviewed by: Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005 Ross Bassett (bio) Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005. By Paul E. Ceruzzi. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. xi+242. $30. The success of Silicon Valley as a technology region has encouraged boosters from other areas to claim some special distinction for their area or deliberately try to create an analogous high-tech region. Oregon has the “Silic…
MIT-Trained Swadeshis
During the colonial period, roughly one hundred degrees were awarded by MIT to Indians. However their importance to India and to the historical understanding of India is disproportionate to their numbers. These men—and they were all men—often from elite families, formed a technological elite in the last days of colonial India. Their careers show a technological nationalism in India—several men came from families associated with Gandhi—and represe…
Aligning India in the Cold War Era
Aligning India in the Cold War EraIndian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, and Computing in India and the United States Ross Bassett (bio) In July 1963, a chartered DC-7 landed at a military airbase in Kanpur, India, a large but unremarkable city on the Ganges River, in a region often considered backward by Indians. The plane held an International Business Machines (IBM) 1620 computer, commonly used in American unive…
The Technological Indian
In the late 1800s India seemed to be left behind by the Industrial Revolution. Today there are many technological Indians around the world but relatively few focus on India's problems. Ross Bassett—drawing on a database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through 2000—explains the role of MIT in this outcome
From Head Shops to Whole Foods
Business is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about the countercultural movements of the 1960s. But in From Head Shops to Whole Foods Joshua Clark Davis makes a compelling case that the businesses he examines provide a useful vantage point on the counterculture while also allowing a new perspective on today's business. The book is framed around two neologisms: “activist entrepreneurs” and “participatory economics.” Davis clai…
Richard Hornsey, Imperial Engineers
Educational institutions, like most institutions, are so big and complex that normally their chroniclers are forced to make a series of focusing decisions.What time period to write about?Should the focus be on students, faculty, culture, or something else?The Royal Indian Engineering College, located at Coopers Hill, just west of London (and hereafter Coopers Hill) had a short enough life (35 years) and was a small enough school (1623 total gradu…
History (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · History of Computing Technologies (4 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Management (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)