Paul Israel

Biographic Data

ID3785596
NAMEPaul Israel
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEIsrael
SIGNATUREISRAEL P
AFFILIATIONSRutgers, the State University of New Jersey
ORCID0000-0002-0425-5428
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The Train and the Telegraph

    Open AccessPaul B Israel, Paul IsraelARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    The Train and the Telegraph is an important contribution to our understanding of how new technologies are adopted. In this case, how telegraphs were adopted and used by the railroads. Benjamin Sidney Michael Schwantes begins by explaining why British railway officials quickly adopted the telegraph, especially compared with their American counterparts. While the goals of telegraph officials made some difference in the use of telegraphs to manage t…

  • The Springfield Gas Machine

    Paul IsraelARTICLEJournal of American History2013

    In this study of the Springfield gas machine Donald W. Linebaugh provides the first history of a little-known but significant segment of the market for gas lighting in the period between the Civil War and World War I. Linebaugh's focus is on the Gilbert and Barker Manufacturing Company, the leader in the portable gas lighting industry and the creator and marketer of the Springfield gas machine. He lays out the company's history in chapter 2, afte…

  • Structures of change in the mechanical age

    Open AccessPaul IsraelARTICLEThe Economic History Review2011

  • Understanding technological innovation

    Paul IsraelARTICLEBusiness History2009

    Understanding technological innovation: a socio-technical approach, by Patrice Flichy (translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht), Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007, ix + 195 pp., £56.99 (hardb

  • Pathways in Intellectual Property

    Open AccessPaul IsraelARTICLEMinerva2008

  • Should there be a training psychoanalyst status

    Open AccessPaul IsraelARTICLEThe International Journal of…2006

    (2006). Should there be a training psychoanalyst status? The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 87, No. 5, pp. 1171-1182

  • Lightning Man

    Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture2005

    Reviewed by: Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse Paul Israel (bio) Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. By Kenneth Silverman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. vi+503. $35. Samuel F. B. Morse is a particularly problematic figure to write about. Best known today for his telegraph system, he was also a noted American artist and a controversial political figure in New York. Unlike earlier biographers, Kenneth…

  • Networking

    Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    The use of cybernetic metaphors drawn from communications networks may seem to be a recent phenomenon, growing out of the increasing importance of computers in contemporary life. But Laura Otis demonstrates that such metaphors have had a long and powerful influence ever since telegraph networks first separated communication from transportation. Networking is a sophisticated but jargon-free analysis of the ways in which scientific and technologica…

  • The Papers of Joseph Henry, Vol. 7, January 1847-December 1849, and

    Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

    These two volumes cover the first seven years of Joseph Henry's tenure as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In taking on this position Henry largely abandoned the research on electromagnetism that had made his reputation as America's leading experimental scientist. His importance in the history of American science, however, extends well beyond his research. It is Henry's central role in the development of the American scientific community…

  • Psychoanalysis and allied therapies

    Open AccessPaul Israel, Lewis A Kirsher et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002

  • Edison

    Wyn Wachhorst, Paul IsraelARTICLEJournal of American History1999

  • Rescue at Sea

    Paul B Israel, Paul Israel et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Rescue at Sea. Prod. and dir. by Ben Loeterman. Ben Loeterman Productions, Inc., 1999. 58 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698) Get access Paul B. Israel Paul B. Israel Thomas A. Edison Papers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1427–1428, https://doi.…

  • From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory

    Margaret B W Graham, Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

  • Inventing History

    Steven Lubar, Paul IsraelARTICLEReviews in American History1994

  • The Papers of Joseph Henry. Vol. 6

    Paul B Israel, Paul Israel et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

  • From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory

    Wyn Wachhorst, Paul IsraelARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830–1920. By Paul Israel. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. x, 251 pp. $38.50, ISBN 0-8018-4379-0.) Get access Wyn Wachhorst Wyn Wachhorst Atherton, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 270–271, https:…

  • Enthusiasts and Innovators

    Paul B Israel, Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    ENTHUSIASTS AND INNOVATORS: “POSSIBLE DREAMS” AND THE “INNOVATION STATION”AT THE HENRY FORD MUSEUM PAUL B . ISRAEL Henry Ford became famous and wealthy as a technological innovator whose assembly-line production methods made possible the first massproduced automobiles. He was also a technological enthusiast, albeit one who nostalgically looked to the past as he collected the relics of the machine age that are housed in the Henry Ford Museum. Two …

  • The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, Vol. 2

    C M Harris, Chris Harris et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • Innovation at the Crossroads between Science and Technology

    Paul Israel, Melvin Kranzberg et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

  • Robert Maillart and the Art of Reinforced Concrete

    Paul Israel, David P BillingtonARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

    The Swiss engineer Robert Maillart (1872-1940) built bridges and industrial buildings of startling originality. His innovative use of concrete, especially in the design of thin arch structures, and his introduction of a wide range of new engineering forms, make him a seminal figure in the history of modern engineering. Focusing on 14 of Maillart's major works, this book provides a stunning full-color visual presentation of engineering structures …

  • Patent Office Records as a Historical Source

    Paul Israel, Robert RosenbergARTICLETechnology and Culture1991Cited by: 2

    Paul Israel, Robert Rosenberg, Patent Office Records as a Historical Source: The Case of Thomas Edison, Technology and Culture, Vol. 32, No. 4, Special Issue: Patents and Invention (Oct., 1991), pp. 1094-1101

  • Edison and the Business of Innovation

    Paul Israel, Andre MillardARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • Edison and the Business of Innovation by Andre Millard

    Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1115 too limited by his one-firm, management-oriented perspective, how­ ever, to address these issues adequately. A true history of the relationship between the telephone system and its environment would require a more pluralistic approach, one that includes the perspec­ tives of business and residential users, independent telephone com­ panies, and state and local politicians as well as Bell system managers. U…

  • The History of N. V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken. Volume I

    Paul B Israel, Paul IsraelARTICLEIsis1990

  • The Sources of Innovation by Eric von Hippel

    Paul IsraelARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 333 their personal lives, their work with Edison, and their correspondence with a number of important figures. The Upton Collection also contains the class notes Upton took while a student of von Helmholtz. Both of these later collections contain materials that fall outside the chronology of Part II, but selections from all years were filmed to preserve the integrity of each collection. The microfilms contain e…