Bruce Sinclair

Biographic Data

ID558435
NAMEBruce Sinclair
GIVEN NAMESBruce
FAMILY NAMESinclair
SIGNATURESINCLAIR B
AFFILIATIONSInstitute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT (review)

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

  • The Battle over Hetch Hetchy

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture2006

    Reviewed by: The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism Bruce Sinclair (bio) The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism. By Robert W. Righter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xxii+303. $30. The battle for Hetch Hetchy is the canonical episode in American environmental history. Long familiar to scholars, and still …

  • Early American Technology

    Bruce Sinclair, Judith A McgawARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996

  • The Road to Madison and Back

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1995

    Bruce Sinclair, The Road to Madison and Back: Notes from a Traveler, Technology and Culture, Vol. 36, No. 2, Supplement: Snapshots of a Discipline: Selected Proceedings from the Conference on Critical Problems and Research Frontiers in the History of Technology, Madison, Wisconsin, October 30-November 3, 1991 (Apr., 1995), pp. S3-S16

  • John B. Jervis

    Bruce SinclairARTICLEIsis1992

  • Failed Innovations—Icohtec Symposium, Hamburg, August 1989

    Gail Cooper, Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

    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

    Gail Cooper, Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1990

  • An Agenda for Shot

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    Presidential Address AN AGENDA FOR SHOT BRUCE SINCLAIR Normally, the outgoing president of SHOT presents an address at the society’s annual meeting. According to that tradition, I should be telling you about the meaning of my scholarship. There’s nothing wrong with that; I’d like the chance to figure it out too. But this year it seems a good time for a different sort of presidential address. I think our society is at an important stage in its evo…

  • The Tancook Whalers

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 307 professionally executed by Jean-Pierre Proulx but far too short and circumscribed chronologically and geographically to be more than an introductory guide. Proulx provides chapters on prehistoric, Basque, English, Dutch, and American whaling. Matters of technology are unevenly handled chapter to chapter, as are the causes of the various fisheries’ rises and declines. Statistics are sometimes presented out o…

  • The Tancook Whalers

    Bruce Sinclair, Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

  • New Perspectives on Technology and American Culture

    Joseph J Corn, Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1988

  • Local History and National Culture

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1986Cited by: 1

    Bruce Sinclair, Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America, Technology and Culture, Vol. 27, No. 4, Special Issue: Engineering in the Twentieth Century (Oct., 1986), pp. 683-693

  • Mechanical Engineering at the National Research Council of Canada, 1929-1951

    Bruce Sinclair, W E Knowles MiddletonARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

    W.E. Knowles Middleton, continuing his series of books on the history of the National Research Council of Canada, here presents a history of the challenges, defeats and triumphs of mechanical engineering at the Council. Throughout much of the history of the National Research Council, the Division of Mechanical Engineering has been mostly preoccupied with problems of aeronautics. During World War II the Division constituted an aeronautical laborat…

  • Regenerating the Future

    Open AccessBruce SinclairARTICLEScientia Canadensis Canadian…1985

    Regenerating the Future: The First World Power Conference, London, 1924. Un article de la revue Scientia Canadensis (Volume 9, numéro 2 (29), décembre–december 1985, p. 97-186) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • From the American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932

    Bruce Sinclair, David A HounshellARTICLEJournal of American History1985

    Journal Article From the American System to Mass Production, 1800–1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. By David A. Hounshell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. xxiv + 411 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $37.50.) Get access Bruce Sinclair Bruce Sinclair University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of A…

  • The Social Context of Innovations

    Open AccessBruce SinclairARTICLEJournal of History1984

  • Emulation and Invention . Brooke Hindle

    Bruce SinclairARTICLEIsis1982

  • A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980

    Louis N Rowley, Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1982

  • A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880-1980

    Burton J Bledstein, Bruce SinclairARTICLEJournal of American History1981

    Journal Article A Centennial History of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1880–1980. By Bruce Sinclair. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. xii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $15.00.) Get access Burton J. Bledstein Burton J. Bledstein University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue 3, December 1981, Pages …

  • Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology

    Open AccessBruce SinclairARTICLEJournal of History1979

    "Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change, by Merritt Roe Smith." Canadian Journal of History, 14(1), pp. 126–127

  • Canadian Technology

    Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1979Cited by: 1

    Technology reflects a people's hopes and prejudices just as does their economy or educational system. It is aspect of culture, like literature or art. One can speak of the history of American technology and by that term encompass both the ways of thinking and of doing that have been peculiar to America and its people. Americans themselves have long believed that their technology and national aspirations were closely intertwined. Wherever our inge…

  • Reassessing Science in Antebellum America

    Open AccessSally Gregory Kohlstedt, Bruce Sinclair et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1977

  • Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics

    Arnold Thackray, Bruce SinclairARTICLETechnology and Culture1976

  • Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics

    Daniel H Calhoun, Daniel Calhoun et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1975

    Journal Article Philadelphia's Philosopher Mechanics: A History of the Franklin Institute, 1824–1863. By Bruce Sinclair. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. 353 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Daniel Calhoun Daniel Calhoun University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 3, December 1975, Pages…

  • The Compleat Henry The Papers of Joseph Henry. Volume I

    Bruce SinclairARTICLEIsis1975