Harold Dorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785530 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold Dorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorn |
| SIGNATURE | DORN H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Death from the Heavens
Reviewed by: Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing Harold Dorn (bio) Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing. By Kenneth P. Werrell. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2009. Pp. xv+332. $44.95. The history of military aviation is packed into the 105 years from the Wright brothers' wood-and-canvas contrivance to today's astonishing technological innovations—missiles fired from submarines, pilotless aircraft, and…
Five Days in August
Reviewed by: Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War Harold Dorn (bio) Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War By Michael D. Gordin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv+209. $24.95. On the sixth of August 1945 the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb. Two days later the Red Army attacked and overwhelmed the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria; and on the ninth of August a se…
Technology as Destiny
Technology as DestinyJörg Friedrich, The Fire Harold Dorn (bio) Technology and culture have interacted no more consequentially than in warfare and weapons. The development of the chariot, first by the Hittites and then by the Egyptians, shaped the history of the ancient Near East. The effects in Europe of the introduction of gunpowder ordnance are well-known; and the gunned man-o'-war led to European global hegemony, with both its modernizing and…
Masters of All They Surveyed
Boundary disputes are like scientific controversies. Until they are resolved they allow "nonobjective" factors--political, historical, sociological, philosophical, and ideological--to take precedence over what later give the appearance of facts, that is, recognized boundaries delineated on maps in the one case and scientific truth proclaimed in textbooks in the other. During the nineteenth century, the territory that is now the Republic of Guyana…
The Architecture of Science (review)
The contributors to this oddly titled collection of twenty-three articles span a wide range of disciplines and professions--architecture, history of architecture, history and philosophy of science, history of art, urban history, anthropology, history of medicine, the sciences, and sociology of science--and the articles reflect the range of the authors. A few focus on the social relations of science and architecture, others confine themselves to d…
Communication
Communication To the editor: Stephen A. Garrett’s Ethics and Air Power in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities (reviewed in Technology and Culture 40 [1999]: 448–50) addresses legal and ethical issues that have been sharpened by twentieth-century technology. The aerial bombardment of population centers has come in for criticism, ranging from Garrett’s moderate animadversions to accusations of war crimes, on the grounds that it often…
The Geography of Science
The Geography of Science
"The "Military Revolution
The “Military Revolution”
Communication THE “MILITARY REVOLUTION”: MILITARY HISTORY OR HISTORY OF EUROPE? To the Editor: In their essay review of Geoffrey Parker’s The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise ofthe West (Cambridge University Press, 1988), which appeared in the July 1990 issue of Technology and Culture (vol. 31; pp. 500—507), Bert Hall and Kelly DeVries reach the conclusion that “Parker emerges as the primary spokesman for a view of early mode…
Leonardo da Vinci
The Britannia Bridge
This book reconstructs the problem solving process involved in the building of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in northwest Wales. The bridge completed the London to Dublin rail connection, and is a tubular structure of rectangular section large enough for a train to pass through, constructed of riveted wrought iron plate. It was the first encounter of engineers with thin-walled structures subject to buckling. The book traces the flow…
Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Detente
unexpected and, even now, seem paradoxical. In the United States electrification progressed increasingly under public ownership, culminating after bitter controversy in the Tennessee Valley Authority, while in the USSR Lenin's program of electrification was promoted by American technique and American businessmen. At the time that Lenin announced his fateful aphorism in 1920 the American electric-power industry was far in advance of any other. Maj…
"Questionable Opinions" Defended
Coulomb's Memoir on Statics. An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering . Jacques Heyman
"A Note on "Structural Antecedents of the I-Beam
In his study of the evolution of the structural I-shape,1 Robert A. Jewett has called attention to one of the most recurrent and challenging problems in the history of science and technology: the pattern of the relationship between the development of engineering practice and the development of scientific theory. His conclusion supports the widely held view that prior to the middle of the nineteenth century theory contributed little or nothing to …
The Rejoinder
Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Detente
unexpected and, even now, seem paradoxical. In the United States electrification progressed increasingly under public ownership, culminating after bitter controversy in the Tennessee Valley Authority, while in the USSR Lenin's program of electrification was promoted by American technique and American businessmen. At the time that Lenin announced his fateful aphorism in 1920 the American electric-power industry was far in advance of any other. Maj…
"A Note on "Structural Antecedents of the I-Beam
In his study of the evolution of the structural I-shape,1 Robert A. Jewett has called attention to one of the most recurrent and challenging problems in the history of science and technology: the pattern of the relationship between the development of engineering practice and the development of scientific theory. His conclusion supports the widely held view that prior to the middle of the nineteenth century theory contributed little or nothing to …
"A Note on "Structural Antecedents of the I-Beam
In his study of the evolution of the structural I-shape,1 Robert A. Jewett has called attention to one of the most recurrent and challenging problems in the history of science and technology: the pattern of the relationship between the development of engineering practice and the development of scientific theory. His conclusion supports the widely held view that prior to the middle of the nineteenth century theory contributed little or nothing to …
The Rejoinder
Coulomb's Memoir on Statics. An Essay in the History of Civil Engineering . Jacques Heyman
"Questionable Opinions" Defended
Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Detente
unexpected and, even now, seem paradoxical. In the United States electrification progressed increasingly under public ownership, culminating after bitter controversy in the Tennessee Valley Authority, while in the USSR Lenin's program of electrification was promoted by American technique and American businessmen. At the time that Lenin announced his fateful aphorism in 1920 the American electric-power industry was far in advance of any other. Maj…
The Britannia Bridge
This book reconstructs the problem solving process involved in the building of the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in northwest Wales. The bridge completed the London to Dublin rail connection, and is a tubular structure of rectangular section large enough for a train to pass through, constructed of riveted wrought iron plate. It was the first encounter of engineers with thin-walled structures subject to buckling. The book traces the flow…
Leonardo da Vinci
"The "Military Revolution
The “Military Revolution”
Communication THE “MILITARY REVOLUTION”: MILITARY HISTORY OR HISTORY OF EUROPE? To the Editor: In their essay review of Geoffrey Parker’s The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise ofthe West (Cambridge University Press, 1988), which appeared in the July 1990 issue of Technology and Culture (vol. 31; pp. 500—507), Bert Hall and Kelly DeVries reach the conclusion that “Parker emerges as the primary spokesman for a view of early mode…
The Geography of Science
The Geography of Science
The Architecture of Science (review)
The contributors to this oddly titled collection of twenty-three articles span a wide range of disciplines and professions--architecture, history of architecture, history and philosophy of science, history of art, urban history, anthropology, history of medicine, the sciences, and sociology of science--and the articles reflect the range of the authors. A few focus on the social relations of science and architecture, others confine themselves to d…
Communication
Communication To the editor: Stephen A. Garrett’s Ethics and Air Power in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities (reviewed in Technology and Culture 40 [1999]: 448–50) addresses legal and ethical issues that have been sharpened by twentieth-century technology. The aerial bombardment of population centers has come in for criticism, ranging from Garrett’s moderate animadversions to accusations of war crimes, on the grounds that it often…
Masters of All They Surveyed
Boundary disputes are like scientific controversies. Until they are resolved they allow "nonobjective" factors--political, historical, sociological, philosophical, and ideological--to take precedence over what later give the appearance of facts, that is, recognized boundaries delineated on maps in the one case and scientific truth proclaimed in textbooks in the other. During the nineteenth century, the territory that is now the Republic of Guyana…
Technology as Destiny
Technology as DestinyJörg Friedrich, The Fire Harold Dorn (bio) Technology and culture have interacted no more consequentially than in warfare and weapons. The development of the chariot, first by the Hittites and then by the Egyptians, shaped the history of the ancient Near East. The effects in Europe of the introduction of gunpowder ordnance are well-known; and the gunned man-o'-war led to European global hegemony, with both its modernizing and…
Five Days in August
Reviewed by: Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War Harold Dorn (bio) Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War By Michael D. Gordin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. xv+209. $24.95. On the sixth of August 1945 the city of Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb. Two days later the Red Army attacked and overwhelmed the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria; and on the ninth of August a se…
Death from the Heavens
Reviewed by: Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing Harold Dorn (bio) Death from the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing. By Kenneth P. Werrell. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2009. Pp. xv+332. $44.95. The history of military aviation is packed into the 105 years from the Wright brothers' wood-and-canvas contrivance to today's astonishing technological innovations—missiles fired from submarines, pilotless aircraft, and…
History (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gunpowder (3 works)