Edward Jay Pershey

Biographic Data

ID680245
NAMEEdward Jay Pershey
GIVEN NAMESEdward Jay
FAMILY NAMEPershey
SIGNATUREPERSHEY E J
AFFILIATIONSTsongas Industrial History Center, Boott Cotton Mills Museum, Foot of John Street, Lowell, MA 01852
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1978
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
H-INDEX2

  • Karaoke Around the World

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLETechnology and Culture1999Cited by: 6

    Reviewed by: Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing* Edward Jay Pershey (bio) Karaoke Around the World: Global Technology, Local Singing. Edited by Toru Mitsui and Shushei Hosokawa. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xi+206; tables, notes/references, index. $45. Karaoke is a Japanese word essentially meaning “empty orchestra.” Karaoke recordings are specially prepared versions of popular songs in which there is no vocalization or vo…

  • Handling History

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLEOAH Magazine of History1998Cited by: 2References: 1

    Journal Article Handling History: Using Material Culture To Create New Perspectives On The Role Of Technology In Society Get access Edward Jay Pershey Edward Jay Pershey Edward Jay Pershey is Director of the Task Force for the Crawford Museum of Transportation and Industry at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 12, Issue 2…

  • We Will Rise in Our Might

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 427 chronology of the scientific study and use of the daguerreotype. This material is an important addition to the held of photohistory, for it is a topic that has largely been ignored, even in such classics as Beaumont Newhall’s The Daguerreotype in America. Barger and White discuss the work of the expected—Draper, Fizeau, and Becquerel—but also in­ clude the work ofthose rarely noted—Donne, Moser, Bunsen, Zen…

  • We Will Rise in Our Might

    Edward Jay Pershey, Mary H BlewettARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • Introducing Engineering and Technical Subjects Across the Disciplines at the High School and Middle School Levels

    Open AccessEdward Jay PersheyARTICLEBulletin of Science Technology &…1991

  • American Moviemakers

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

    Talking is an old-fashioned term. Nowadays we simply call them movies because all movies have synchronous sound. But movies were first produced commercially as silent films, and only after 30 years or so was it possible to add sound to the moving image. Moviemakers: Dawn of Sound, a traveling exhibit that opened at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City in October 1989, looks at the time in the late 1920s when sound became a practical r…

  • Lowell and the Industrial City in Nineteenth-Century America

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLEOAH Magazine of History1990References: 1

    Journal Article Lowell and the Industrial City in Nineteenth-Century America Get access Edward Jay Pershey Edward Jay Pershey Edward Jay Pershey is Director of the Tsongas Industrial History Center, a joint educational project of the College of Education, University of Lowell, and Lowell National Historical Park, National Park Service. The Tsongas Center promotes the teaching of topics in industrial history in grades 4–12 and will open an interac…

  • Selling Tomorrow

    Open AccessEdward Jay Pershey, Roland Marchand et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1986

  • The Invented Self

    Edward Jay Pershey, David E NyeARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

    CONTENTS: Introduction The Clothes and Buttons of a Man A Semiotic History The Archive Text The West Orange Edition, 1895 The Menlo Park Edition, 1880 The Public Edisons of 1880 Light's Golden Jubilee Verbal Invention Four Kinds of Meditation The Self as Contradiction Index

  • "Life and Times in Silk City," an Exhibit in Paterson, New Jersey, at the American Labor Museum, the Paterson Museum, and the Lambert Castle Museum

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLETechnology and Culture1985

    Edward Jay Pershey, "Life and Times in Silk City," an Exhibit in Paterson, New Jersey, at the American Labor Museum, the Paterson Museum, and the Lambert Castle Museum, Technology and Culture, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jul., 1985), pp. 623-628

  • Material Culture of the Wooden Age. Brooke Hindle

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLEIsis1984

  • Infection and the Germ Theory

    Edward Jay PersheyARTICLETechnology and Culture1981

  • Pollution and Reform in American Cities, 1870-1930

    Edward Jay Pershey, Martin V MelosiARTICLETechnology and Culture1981

  • The Lower Peninsula of Michigan

    Edward Jay Pershey, Charles K Hyde et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1978