Robert Casey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Casey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Casey |
| SIGNATURE | CASEY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Line between Faith and Folly
The Line between Faith and Folly Robert H. Casey (bio) Innovation is one of the most fruitful and oft-examined topics in the history of technology. What motivates innovators, and how they sustain that motivation through the setbacks they encounter when pushing technological boundaries, has lead to examinations of the economic aspects of technological enthusiasm. In a paper presented at the 2004 SHOT conference in Amsterdam, Philip Scranton sugges…
America on the Move At the National Museum of American History
America on the MoveAt the National Museum of American History Robert H. Casey (bio) When the late Brooke Hindle was director of the National Museum of History and Technology he published a seminal article titled "How Much Is a Piece of the True Cross Worth?"1 To judge from the new exhibition America on the Move, Hindle's successors at what is now the National Museum of American History would answer: "Less than you might think." America on the Mov…
An Unprepossessing Aircraft
The Henry Ford Museum happens to lie more-or-less underneath one of the approaches to Wayne County Metropolitan Airport. The airliners that pass overhead make use of a number of innovations pioneered in an unprepossessing little airplane that now hangs in the museum, the Dayton-Wright RB-1, one of the most technologically advanced aircraft of the interwar era—and, the air traffic overhead not withstanding, a technological dead end
Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912
European Annaliste historians interpreted social history by focusing on the life of one individual as told through a revealing biographical document. An 1859 obituary of antebellum industrialist Robert Findlay provides the beginning point for a rare in-depth analysis of Findlay's life. To tell Findlay's story is also to recount Macon's rise from a frontier commercial and transportation center to an important manufacturing city of the Old South. M…
The Vanderbilt Cup, 1908
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry (review)
Reviewed by: The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry * Robert Casey (bio) The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry. By Roy Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vi+144; tables, bibliography, index. $34.95. The British motor industry has had a remarkable trajectory. Initially lagging far behind the development of similar industries in other major manufacturing countries, such as France, Germany, and the Unit…
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel’s Battle to Survive by John Strohmeyer, and: From Fire to Rust: Business, Technology and Work at the Lackawanna Steel Plant, 1899–1983 by Thomas E. Leary, Elizabeth C. S…
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews—Labor and Technology 929 between the IWW and their employers. Yet she also maintains that they early demonstrated a “willingness to protest their conditions” (p. 67), that the organization of the strike “reflected the emphasis on local and mass leadership” (p. 77), and that after the pageant per formance strikers “demanded” (p. 149) an accounting of the event’s finances. A fuller examination of the silk worker…
Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Battle to Survive
Glossolalic speech from a psycholinguistic perspective
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Glossolalic speech from a psycholinguistic perspective
Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel’s Battle to Survive by John Strohmeyer, and: From Fire to Rust: Business, Technology and Work at the Lackawanna Steel Plant, 1899–1983 by Thomas E. Leary, Elizabeth C. S…
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews—Labor and Technology 929 between the IWW and their employers. Yet she also maintains that they early demonstrated a “willingness to protest their conditions” (p. 67), that the organization of the strike “reflected the emphasis on local and mass leadership” (p. 77), and that after the pageant per formance strikers “demanded” (p. 149) an accounting of the event’s finances. A fuller examination of the silk worker…
Crisis in Bethlehem: Big Steel's Battle to Survive
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry (review)
Reviewed by: The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry * Robert Casey (bio) The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry. By Roy Church. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vi+144; tables, bibliography, index. $34.95. The British motor industry has had a remarkable trajectory. Initially lagging far behind the development of similar industries in other major manufacturing countries, such as France, Germany, and the Unit…
The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
The Vanderbilt Cup, 1908
Cotton, Fire, and Dreams: The Robert Findlay Iron Works and Heavy Industry in Macon, Georgia, 1839-1912
European Annaliste historians interpreted social history by focusing on the life of one individual as told through a revealing biographical document. An 1859 obituary of antebellum industrialist Robert Findlay provides the beginning point for a rare in-depth analysis of Findlay's life. To tell Findlay's story is also to recount Macon's rise from a frontier commercial and transportation center to an important manufacturing city of the Old South. M…
America on the Move At the National Museum of American History
America on the MoveAt the National Museum of American History Robert H. Casey (bio) When the late Brooke Hindle was director of the National Museum of History and Technology he published a seminal article titled "How Much Is a Piece of the True Cross Worth?"1 To judge from the new exhibition America on the Move, Hindle's successors at what is now the National Museum of American History would answer: "Less than you might think." America on the Mov…
An Unprepossessing Aircraft
The Henry Ford Museum happens to lie more-or-less underneath one of the approaches to Wayne County Metropolitan Airport. The airliners that pass overhead make use of a number of innovations pioneered in an unprepossessing little airplane that now hangs in the museum, the Dayton-Wright RB-1, one of the most technologically advanced aircraft of the interwar era—and, the air traffic overhead not withstanding, a technological dead end
The Line between Faith and Folly
The Line between Faith and Folly Robert H. Casey (bio) Innovation is one of the most fruitful and oft-examined topics in the history of technology. What motivates innovators, and how they sustain that motivation through the setbacks they encounter when pushing technological boundaries, has lead to examinations of the economic aspects of technological enthusiasm. In a paper presented at the 2004 SHOT conference in Amsterdam, Philip Scranton sugges…
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