Sylvia Doughty Fries

Biographic Data

ID5371995
NAMESylvia Doughty Fries
GIVEN NAMESSylvia Doughty
FAMILY NAMEFries
SIGNATUREFRIES S D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Maine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS31
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
H-INDEX2

  • Nasa Engineers and the Age of Apollo

    Walter G Vincenti, Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    A historical account of NASA's Apollo era engineers is presented. This book is based on interviews that were conducted with fifty-one 'typical' engineers

  • A Spacefaring Nation: Perspectives on American Space History and Policy

    Loyd S Swenson, Martin Collins et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    The present volume on perspectives on American space history and policy discusses decision-making, space science and scientific communities, postwar aeronautical research in the federal laboratory, and civilian and military remote sensing and reconnaissance. Attention is given to the interpenetration of science, technology, and politics; space 'sociology'; and space technology and planetary science from 1950 to 1985. Other topics addressed includ…

  • A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative

    Sylvia Doughty Frie, Sylvia Doughty Fries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • To 1994: Political Environment and the Design of Nasa's Space Station System

    Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    The U.S. civilian space station, a hope of numerous NASA engineers since before the agency was founded in 1958 and promoted by NASA as the country's 'next logical step' into space, provides an excellent case study of the way public-sector research and development agencies continuously redefine new technologies in the absence of the market discipline that governs private-sector technological development. The number of space station design studies …

  • To 1994: Political Environment and the Design of Nasa’s Space Station System

    Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    2001 to 1994: Political Environment and the Design of NASA’s Space Station System SYLVIA D. FRIES Not the least of the many questions raised about the U.S. space program in the aftermath of the Challenger explosion on January 29, 1986, was whether political pressures impinged on what should have been a purely technical judgment: How reliable were the joint seals on the space shuttle’s solid rocket boosters in the then-prevailing tem­ perature of …

  • Dealing with Crisis: History and the Challenger Disaster

    Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEThe Public Historian1988

    It is argued that, although the usefulness of history is largely an abstract concept in our daily lives, a proper understanding of history attains a high level of status in times of crisis. This thesis is elucidated by examining the role of the NASA History Office in the wake of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 Jan. 1986

  • Public History: An Introduction ed. by Barbara J. Howe, Emory L. Kemp

    Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 335 quotations is often excellent. The greatest flaw in this book is weak organization. Some chapters unnecessarily repeat information given earlier or someone is introduced after previously being mentioned in passing. The later chapters seem to lose the thread of Oberth’s life and are often self-contained units whose relevance to the biography is unclear. Annoying errors (such as incorrect dates for the beginn…

  • The Johnson Years. Volume II: Vietnam, the Environment, and Science . Robert A. Divine

    Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEIsis1988

  • Public History: An Introduction

    Sylvia Doughty Frie, Sylvia Doughty Fries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    Public History is a collection of essays which comes closer than anything that currently exists to being an introductory textbook on the practice of public history.Its thirty-two selections explore in great detail the methods employed by the thousands of historians who work in settings other than the academic.It is thus not surprising that the book is receiving much commendation, including an award from the editors' home institution.West Virginia…

  • The Space Station From Concept to Evolving Reality

    Sylvia Doughty Fries, Frederick I Ordway Iii et al.ARTICLEInterdisciplinary Science Reviews1987References: 1

  • Mechanics of the Middle Class: Work and Politics among American Engineers

    Sylvia D Frie, Sylvia Doughty Fries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

  • The Ideology of Science during the Nixon Years: 1970-76

    Open AccessSylvia Doughty FriesARTICLESocial Studies of Science1984Cited by: 1References: 2

    This paper examines the expert testimony given before the US Congress during the legislative history of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization and Priorities Act of 1976, examining in particular the scientific witnesses' appeals for enlarged government funding for basic research and greater influence in the making of federal science policy. The author finds that in the process of arguing for increased support and influence, spok…

  • Expertise against Politics: Technology as Ideology on Capitol Hill, 1966-1972

    Open AccessSylvia Doughty Frie, Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values1983Cited by: 2

    Exploration of three thematic problems--the meaning of 'technology', technology as historical destiny, and the compatability of technology with democratic politics--must be a part of any effort to develop an overview of the significance of technology for twentieth-century American ideology. Ambivalence toward technology has become a well-established theme in studies of the mechanization of America. Various aspects and examples with respect to tec…

  • The urban crucible: Social change, political consciousness, and the origins of the American revolution

    Open AccessSylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography1981

  • Baltimore: The Building of an American City

    Sylvia Doughty Frie, Sylvia Doughty Fries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1981

  • Toward the Endless Frontier: History of the Committee on Science and Tecknology, 1959-79

    Sylvia Doughty Frie, Sylvia Doughty Fries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1981

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    Jeff Archer, John Archer et al.ARTICLEEighteenth-Century Studies1980

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    Michael Frisch, Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEJournal of American History1979

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    Open AccessJames T Lemon, Sylvia Doughty Frie et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1979

  • Anthropology toward History: Culture and Work in a 19th-Century Maine Town

    Sylvia Doughty Frie, Sylvia Doughty Fries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1979

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    Harold Kirker, Sylvia Doughty Frie et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1979

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    James A Henretta, Sylvia Doughty Frie et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1979

  • The Urban Idea in Colonial America

    Thomas J Archdeacon, Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEThe American Historical Review1978Cited by: 3

  • Doubts about the City

    Robert C Twombly, Sylvia Doughty FriesARTICLEReviews in American History1978

  • Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711

    Sylvia Doughty Fries, Jay HigginbothamARTICLEJournal of American History1978

    Journal Article Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702–1711. By Jay Higginbotham. (Mobile, Ala.: Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977. xiv + 585 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Sylvia Doughty Fries Sylvia Doughty Fries University of Maine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 3, December 1978, Pages 751–752…