Gail Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gail Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gail |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8637-8674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cool
Reviewed by: Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile Gail Cooper Salvatore Basile. Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ix + 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-6176-5, $29.95 (cloth). Salvatore Basile’s Cool is a sprawling account of the history of air conditioning. Mostly it is about the United States and modern mechanical cooling, and generally it is organized chronologically—ex…
Fixing the Sky
Reviewed by: Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control Gail Cooper (bio) Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. By James Rodger Fleming. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+325. $27.95. James Fleming has written an entertaining book about a serious issue: climate control. Debate over the desirability of human control of weather and climate has intensified in recent years, fu…
Science, Technology, and Society in Contemporary Japan (review)
Like many books engaged with the politics and values of science and technology, this volume focuses on Japan's most recent past, and many readers will be pleased with its up-to-the-minute coverage. It takes as its largest theme the contribution of science and technology to economic growth and the well-being of the Japanese people. However, the book suggests that these two goals are often in conflict with one another, pointing out that what benefi…
Air-Conditioning America
Journal Article Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960. By Gail Cooper. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 229 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5716-3.) Get access David E. Nye David E. Nye Odense University Odense, Denmark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Page 818, https://doi.org/10.2307…
The Technological Transformation of Japan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 161 The Technological Transformation ofJapan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge: Cam bridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii+304; illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95 (hardcover); $18.95 (paper). This is a book that many in our field imagined should exist but could never be found on any bookshelf—a one-volume history of Japanese tech…
The Technological Transformation of Japan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century
Machines Are Frozen Spirit
Machines Are Frozen Spirit
1036 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE dent. So conservatives saw the rifle as an encouragement of an indi vidualism that could be dangerous in stolid, uneducated soldiers. The breechloader, with its rapid fire, was also distrusted by officers who thought that soldiers would shoot off all their ammunition prema turely. But in the reforming 1860s it was not considered outrageous to argue that better education for the masses would produce recru…
Custom Design, Engineering Guarantees, and Unpatentable Data
L'industrie de l'air conditionne apparue en 1902 en Amerique, se specialise et s'adapte a chaque probleme individuel des clients en developpant l'equipement le plus efficace possible pour garantir le controle de la temperature, de l'humidite et de la purete de l'air
Factory Girls
Factory Girls
810 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The book’s treatment of technologies used by EDF, however, is disappointing. Historians of technology will balk at Frost’s character ization of recent literature in their held: the social constructivist school, he writes, portrays technology as being influenced by social and political concerns without examining the ways in which technol ogy in turn shapes society. This oversimplification is compounded by …
Technology in America
Journal Article Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal. (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. xii + 380 pp. Paper, $10.00.) Get access Gail Cooper Gail Cooper Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078109 Published: 01 June 1991
Failed Innovations—Icohtec Symposium, Hamburg, August 1989
Conference Report FAILED INNOVATIONS—ICOHTEC SYMPOSIUM, HAMBURG, AUGUST 1989 GAIL COOPER AND BRUCE SINCLAIR At the level of international congresses, the history of technology still acts through the medium of the history of science. So, according to that tradition (and the Unesco charter, which gave such interna tional organizations their life), the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, met at the eighteenth Interna ti…
Failed Innovations-Icohtec Symposium, Hamburg, August 1989
Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan
Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan
330 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan: 1885— 1940. By Ryoshin Minami. Tokyo and New York: Kinokuniya and Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi + 399; figures, tables, notes, appen dix, bibliography, index. $25.00. Ever since Lewis Mumford divided history into epochs character ized by their power sources, an examination of industrial develop ment through a history of power use has promised…
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Failed Innovations—Icohtec Symposium, Hamburg, August 1989
Conference Report FAILED INNOVATIONS—ICOHTEC SYMPOSIUM, HAMBURG, AUGUST 1989 GAIL COOPER AND BRUCE SINCLAIR At the level of international congresses, the history of technology still acts through the medium of the history of science. So, according to that tradition (and the Unesco charter, which gave such interna tional organizations their life), the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, met at the eighteenth Interna ti…
Failed Innovations-Icohtec Symposium, Hamburg, August 1989
Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan
Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan
330 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Power Revolution in the Industrialization of Japan: 1885— 1940. By Ryoshin Minami. Tokyo and New York: Kinokuniya and Columbia University Press, 1987. Pp. xvi + 399; figures, tables, notes, appen dix, bibliography, index. $25.00. Ever since Lewis Mumford divided history into epochs character ized by their power sources, an examination of industrial develop ment through a history of power use has promised…
Technology in America
Journal Article Technology in America: A Brief History. By Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal. (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. xii + 380 pp. Paper, $10.00.) Get access Gail Cooper Gail Cooper Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 282–283, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078109 Published: 01 June 1991
Factory Girls
Factory Girls
810 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE The book’s treatment of technologies used by EDF, however, is disappointing. Historians of technology will balk at Frost’s character ization of recent literature in their held: the social constructivist school, he writes, portrays technology as being influenced by social and political concerns without examining the ways in which technol ogy in turn shapes society. This oversimplification is compounded by …
Custom Design, Engineering Guarantees, and Unpatentable Data
L'industrie de l'air conditionne apparue en 1902 en Amerique, se specialise et s'adapte a chaque probleme individuel des clients en developpant l'equipement le plus efficace possible pour garantir le controle de la temperature, de l'humidite et de la purete de l'air
Machines Are Frozen Spirit
Machines Are Frozen Spirit
1036 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE dent. So conservatives saw the rifle as an encouragement of an indi vidualism that could be dangerous in stolid, uneducated soldiers. The breechloader, with its rapid fire, was also distrusted by officers who thought that soldiers would shoot off all their ammunition prema turely. But in the reforming 1860s it was not considered outrageous to argue that better education for the masses would produce recru…
The Technological Transformation of Japan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 161 The Technological Transformation ofJapan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century. By Tessa Morris-Suzuki. Cambridge: Cam bridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii+304; illustrations, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95 (hardcover); $18.95 (paper). This is a book that many in our field imagined should exist but could never be found on any bookshelf—a one-volume history of Japanese tech…
The Technological Transformation of Japan from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century
Air-Conditioning America
Journal Article Air-Conditioning America: Engineers and the Controlled Environment, 1900–1960. By Gail Cooper. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. x, 229 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-5716-3.) Get access David E. Nye David E. Nye Odense University Odense, Denmark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Page 818, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Science, Technology, and Society in Contemporary Japan (review)
Like many books engaged with the politics and values of science and technology, this volume focuses on Japan's most recent past, and many readers will be pleased with its up-to-the-minute coverage. It takes as its largest theme the contribution of science and technology to economic growth and the well-being of the Japanese people. However, the book suggests that these two goals are often in conflict with one another, pointing out that what benefi…
Fixing the Sky
Reviewed by: Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control Gail Cooper (bio) Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. By James Rodger Fleming. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+325. $27.95. James Fleming has written an entertaining book about a serious issue: climate control. Debate over the desirability of human control of weather and climate has intensified in recent years, fu…
Cool
Reviewed by: Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile Gail Cooper Salvatore Basile. Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ix + 278 pp. ISBN 978-0-8232-6176-5, $29.95 (cloth). Salvatore Basile’s Cool is a sprawling account of the history of air conditioning. Mostly it is about the United States and modern mechanical cooling, and generally it is organized chronologically—ex…
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