Darwin H Stapleton

• Transnational History, Cultural Collisions, and Agency

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Topoi (Rio de Janeiro•2025

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  The Rockefeller Foundation and its subsidiary, the International Health Board, created a fellowship program that intended to provide education and training for public health students and officials across the world. This essay focuses on Latin American fellowships in the early twentieth century, considering the goals of the Foundation’s program, the agency of the fellows, and the program’s global impact. It draws on fellowship cards and annual rep…

• “An Investment in Leadership”

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Revista História Debates e…•2021

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  The Rockefeller Foundation, the largest philanthropy in the first half of the 20th century, initiated a global program of fellowships to train public health officials. The majority of the fellows were brought to universities in the United States to study science-based medicine for one or more years, followed by field work at research stations funded by the Foundation. Fellows returned to their home countries to serve in public health institutions…

• Accounting for Slavery

  Darwin H Stapleton, Darwin Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2020

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  Reviewed by: Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal Darwin Stapleton (bio) Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management. By Caitlin Rosenthal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Pp. 295. Paperback $35. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of American slavery. The author combines business history with an intimate knowledge of the accounting practices of plantation slavery, acquired through …

• David L. Seim. Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•2014

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  Historians of the social sciences will find much to like about this volume, although it falls short of defining the state of scholarship in the field. What Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science does is present a clearly written, deeply researched review of how Rockefeller philanthropy initially engaged the social sciences in the United States and Europe up to 1930. The author avoids both historiographic and social science jargon, and…

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (review)

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2006

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• The Mosquito Wars

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2006

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  Reviewed by: The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida Darwin H. Stapleton (bio) The Mosquito Wars: A History of Mosquito Control in Florida. By Gordon Patterson. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. Pp. xviii+263. $55. This is a useful contribution to the history of malaria control. It is written with a certain literary verve, and can be recommended to a general audience as well as to students of the history of publi…

• A Lost Chapter in the Early History of DDT

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2005•Citada por: 1

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  On 5 December 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the Allied forces in North Africa and Italy, sent an urgent secret radiogram to Washington regarding the War Department's refusal to ship to North Africa a large quantity of a secret new chemical for the control of louse-borne typhus. Arguing that "typhus fever is [an] actual threat to military personnel in Italy at this time," he stated that "seventeen tons of [DDT] concentrate are t…

• Joseph Willits and the Rockefeller's European Programme in the Social Sciences

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Minerva•2003•Citada por: 9

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• The Sanitary City

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2001

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  Martin Melosi's The Sanitary City is a substantial work of scholarship that provides a highly useful history of the development and consequences of urban water, sewer, and solid waste infrastructure in the United States. Extensively referenced, heavily illustrated, and well written, it should be a standard on the subject for many years

• The past and the future of research in the history of science

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos•1999•Referências: 1

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• Dirk J. Struik's Yankee Science in the Making

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Isis•1997

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• Technical Knowledge in American Culture

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1997

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  TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 965 ect (www.stanford.edu/group/itsp) and author of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics ofDiscourse in Cold War America (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996). Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology and Medi­ cine since the Early 1800s. Edited by Hamilton Cravens, Alan I. Mar­ cus, and David M. Katzman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Pp. viii+264; notes, index. $24.95…

• Papers of William Thornton. Vol. 1, 1781-1802

  Darwin H Stapleton, C M Harris•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1997

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• Philanthropy and institution-building in the twentieth century

  Open Access•Kenneth Rose, Kenneth W Rose et al.•ARTICLE•Minerva•1997

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• Technical Knowledge in American Culture

  Darwin H Stapleton, Hamilton Cravens et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1997

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• Channel Tunnel Visions, 1850-1945

  Darwin H Stapleton, Keith Wilson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1996

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• Channel Tunnel Visions, 1850-1945

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1996

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  TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 855 Patent Office, he could have argued even more persuasively that “Baekeland successfully constructed not only a new plastic but also a specific historical account ofthat invention” (p. 144, italics in original). These minor flaws ironically reinforce a conclusion that Bijker has produced a significant work of considerable interpretive power, es­ sential for anyone seeking to understand the seamless web of cu…

• The Faustian Dilemmas of Funded Research at Case Institute and Western Reserve, 1945-1965

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Science Technology & Human Values•1993•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

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  Patrons and sponsors often have shaped and even altered the course of scientific and technological developments. The postwar history of Case Western Reserve University, formed from the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, indicates that industrial, government, and foundation funders of science and technology also can alter the development of entire institutions

• Early American Scientific and Technical Literature

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1992

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  184 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE research of the past two or three decades (known to readers of this journal) on the relationships among technology and other areas of social, economic, and cultural activity. Henry Lowood Dr. Lowood, bibliographer of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University Libraries, is editor of the bibliography published annually in Technology and Culture. He is completing projects on the …

• Early American Scientific and Technical Literature

  Darwin H Stapleton, Margaret W Batschelet•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1992

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  Selected a Best Bibliography in History for 1991, ALA's RASD It is usually accepted that the contributions of early American science were relatively modest compared with the work of European scientists. Yet the volume of material produced by early American scientific and technical writers is surprisingly large. Limiting her study to books, pamphlets and broadsides, the author has found over 800 works that fall into the broad category of early Ame…

• Claudius Crozet

  Darwin H Stapleton, R F Hunter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1990

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  Journal Article Claudius Crozet: French Engineer in America, 1790–1864. By Robert F Hunter and Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. xii + 224 pp. $25.00.) Get access Darwin H. Stapleton Darwin H. Stapleton Rockefeller Archive Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1008–1009, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

• The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Vol. 3

  C M Harris, John C Van Horne et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1989

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• The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Vol. 2

  Silvio A Bedini, John C Van Horne et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1989

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• The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America

  Stephen H Cutcliffe, Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1989

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  Journal Article The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America. By Darwin H. Stapleton. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987. xi + 215 pp. $18.00.) Get access Stephen H. Cutcliffe Stephen H. Cutcliffe Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1288, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908647 Published: 01 March 1989

• The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America

  Thomas R Winpenny, Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1989

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• Joseph Willits and the Rockefeller's European Programme in the Social Sciences

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Minerva•2003•Citada por: 9

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• A Lost Chapter in the Early History of DDT

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•2005•Citada por: 1

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  On 5 December 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, commander of the Allied forces in North Africa and Italy, sent an urgent secret radiogram to Washington regarding the War Department's refusal to ship to North Africa a large quantity of a secret new chemical for the control of louse-borne typhus. Arguing that "typhus fever is [an] actual threat to military personnel in Italy at this time," he stated that "seventeen tons of [DDT] concentrate are t…

• The Faustian Dilemmas of Funded Research at Case Institute and Western Reserve, 1945-1965

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Science Technology & Human Values•1993•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

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  Patrons and sponsors often have shaped and even altered the course of scientific and technological developments. The postwar history of Case Western Reserve University, formed from the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, indicates that industrial, government, and foundation funders of science and technology also can alter the development of entire institutions

• History of Public Works in the United States, 1776-1976

  Darwin H Stapleton, Ellis L Armstrong•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1977

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• Harpers Ferry Armony and the New Technology

  Darwin H Stapleton, Merritt Roe Smith•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1978

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  Journal Article Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change. By Merritt Roe Smith. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. 363 pp. Map, illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $17.50.) Get access Darwin H. Stapleton Darwin H. Stapleton Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 4, March 1978, Pages 1…

• Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870

  Darwin H Stapleton•REVIEW•Technology and Culture•1978

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• The Ingenious Yankees

  Darwin H Stapleton, Joseph Gies et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1978

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• A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Vol. 1

  Darwin H Stapleton, Louis C Hunter•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1980

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  Journal Article A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. 1: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. By Louis C. Hunter. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. xxiv + 606 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access Darwin H. Stapleton Darwin H. Stapleton Case Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…

• Transport Technology and Social Change. Per Sörbom

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Isis•1981

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• The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe

  Michal Mcmahon, Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1981

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• The Discipline of the History of American Technology

  Darwin H Stapleton, David A Hounshell•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1982

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  The Discipline of the History of American Technology: An Exchange Get access Darwin H. Stapleton, Darwin H. Stapleton Hagley Museum and University of DelawareCase Western Reserve University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David A. Hounshell David A. Hounshell Hagley Museum and University of Delaware Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…

• Robert Fulton

  Darwin H Stapleton, Wallace S Hutcheon•ARTICLE•Journal of the Early Republic•1982

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• The John Bull

  Darwin H Stapleton, John H White•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1982

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• The American Philosophical Society Library

  Darwin H Stapleton, Darwin Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1982

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  The Library of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia has long been highly regarded for the excellence of its collections in the history of science, but its holdings relating to the history of technology have been less well known. Yet the society's founder and patron, Benjamin Franklin, was famous for his technical interests, and many of the early members such as Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Robert Fulton, and Alexander Dallas Bache played…

• Engineers of Independence

  Darwin H Stapleton, Paul K Walker•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1983

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• Technology on Trial

  Darwin H Stapleton, Svante Lindqvist•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1987

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• Mechanical Arts & Merchandise

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1988

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  146 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the rubric “power,” Stapleton has systematically included works on hydraulic power and prime movers, but he has omitted Louis C. Hunter’s Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine (Charlottes­ ville, Va., 1979). One may question whether the kind of guidelines Stapleton has fol­ lowed are always adequate, however. For example, I would argue that conceptual rather than technical guidelines are necessary t…

• The History of Civil Engineering since 1600

  Eda Kranakis, Darwin H Stapleton et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1988

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• Mechanical Arts & Merchandise

  Darwin H Stapleton, A P Woolrich et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1988

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• The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Vol. 3

  C M Harris, John C Van Horne et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1989

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• The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Vol. 2

  Silvio A Bedini, John C Van Horne et al.•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1989

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• The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America

  Stephen H Cutcliffe, Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1989

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  Journal Article The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America. By Darwin H. Stapleton. (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1987. xi + 215 pp. $18.00.) Get access Stephen H. Cutcliffe Stephen H. Cutcliffe Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 4, March 1989, Page 1288, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908647 Published: 01 March 1989

• The Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America

  Thomas R Winpenny, Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1989

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• Claudius Crozet

  Darwin H Stapleton, R F Hunter et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of American History•1990

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  Journal Article Claudius Crozet: French Engineer in America, 1790–1864. By Robert F Hunter and Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989. xii + 224 pp. $25.00.) Get access Darwin H. Stapleton Darwin H. Stapleton Rockefeller Archive Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1008–1009, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…

• Early American Scientific and Technical Literature

  Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1992

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  184 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE research of the past two or three decades (known to readers of this journal) on the relationships among technology and other areas of social, economic, and cultural activity. Henry Lowood Dr. Lowood, bibliographer of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University Libraries, is editor of the bibliography published annually in Technology and Culture. He is completing projects on the …

• Early American Scientific and Technical Literature

  Darwin H Stapleton, Margaret W Batschelet•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1992

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  Selected a Best Bibliography in History for 1991, ALA's RASD It is usually accepted that the contributions of early American science were relatively modest compared with the work of European scientists. Yet the volume of material produced by early American scientific and technical writers is surprisingly large. Limiting her study to books, pamphlets and broadsides, the author has found over 800 works that fall into the broad category of early Ame…

• The Faustian Dilemmas of Funded Research at Case Institute and Western Reserve, 1945-1965

  Open Access•Darwin H Stapleton•ARTICLE•Science Technology & Human Values•1993•Citada por: 1•Referências: 4

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  Patrons and sponsors often have shaped and even altered the course of scientific and technological developments. The postwar history of Case Western Reserve University, formed from the federation of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University, indicates that industrial, government, and foundation funders of science and technology also can alter the development of entire institutions

• Channel Tunnel Visions, 1850-1945

  Darwin H Stapleton, Keith Wilson•ARTICLE•Technology and Culture•1996

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