Virginia P Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 951790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia P Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia P |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON V P |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8573-4470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wheels of Fortune
Space and the American Imagination . Howard E. McCurdy
BFGoodrich
Reviewed by: BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870–1995* Virginia P. Dawson (bio) BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870–1995. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. Pp. x+507; illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, index. $30. Ohio State professors Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr have produced a definitive 125-year history of the BFGoodrich Company. Company sponsorship g…
Knowledge Is Power
Knowledge Is Power: E. G. Bailey and the Invention and Marketing of the Bailey Boiler Meter VIRGINIA P. DAWSON From the time of the Industrial Revolution through World War I, the stoker—back hunched, sinewy shoulders glistening in the eerie glare from the furnace, lungs filling with coal dust—fed indus try’s hungry fires. The 18th-century stoker, or fireman, possessed high-order craft knowledge “breathed in by the sooty atmosphere in which he li…
Knowledge Is Power
Le compteur de la chaudiere, invente par Bailey (E.G.) en 1913 associe les fonctions d'un indicateur du foyer de la chaudiere refletant le taux de flux d'air et de vapeur
The Correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Horace-Benedict de Saussure . Otto Sonntag
Engines and Innovation
This book is an institutional history of the NASA Lewis Research Center, located in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1940, when Congress authorized funding for a third laboratory for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, through the 1980s. The history of the laboratory is discussed in relation to the development of American propulsion technology, with particular focus on the transition in the 1940s from the use of piston engines in airplanes to j…
Chain Reaction
Nature's Enigma
Race to the Stratosphere
Race to the Stratosphere
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 633 Race to the Stratosphere: Manned Scientific Ballooning in America. By David H. DeVorkin. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989. Pp. xiii + 406; illustrations, notes, index. $39.50. David DeVorkin has produced a scholarly and provocative book on the history of scientific ballooning in the first half of the 20th century. Race to the Stratosphere focuses on manned scientific ascents into the stratosphere, particular…
The Tender Ship
Whittle
1074 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AXI) CULTURE aspects, often neglected topics, will prove to be indispensable to the history of French aviation, and it exemplifies the type of approach necessary to place the history of aviation in its broader historical context and thus in the mainstream of historical study. John H. Morrow, Jr. Dr. Morrow, Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia, was recently the Charles Lindbergh Professor at the …
Whittle
The Problem of Soul in the "Little Machines" of Reaumur and Charles Bonnet
DESPITE NEWTON, THE CARTESIAN IDEA OF A CLOCK-LIKE UNIVERSE governed by natural law, popularized by Bernard de Fontenelle in his Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes, remained a central concept of eighteenth-century continental thought. However, as Leonora Cohen Rosenfield demonstrated in her classic book, From Beast-Machine to Man-Machine, by the early decades of the century, the once tightly woven fabric of the Cartesian system had become a r…
The Problem of Soul in the "Little Machines" of Reaumur and Charles Bonnet
DESPITE NEWTON, THE CARTESIAN IDEA OF A CLOCK-LIKE UNIVERSE governed by natural law, popularized by Bernard de Fontenelle in his Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes, remained a central concept of eighteenth-century continental thought. However, as Leonora Cohen Rosenfield demonstrated in her classic book, From Beast-Machine to Man-Machine, by the early decades of the century, the once tightly woven fabric of the Cartesian system had become a r…
The Tender Ship
Whittle
1074 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AXI) CULTURE aspects, often neglected topics, will prove to be indispensable to the history of French aviation, and it exemplifies the type of approach necessary to place the history of aviation in its broader historical context and thus in the mainstream of historical study. John H. Morrow, Jr. Dr. Morrow, Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia, was recently the Charles Lindbergh Professor at the …
Whittle
Nature's Enigma
Race to the Stratosphere
Race to the Stratosphere
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 633 Race to the Stratosphere: Manned Scientific Ballooning in America. By David H. DeVorkin. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989. Pp. xiii + 406; illustrations, notes, index. $39.50. David DeVorkin has produced a scholarly and provocative book on the history of scientific ballooning in the first half of the 20th century. Race to the Stratosphere focuses on manned scientific ascents into the stratosphere, particular…
The Correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Horace-Benedict de Saussure . Otto Sonntag
Engines and Innovation
This book is an institutional history of the NASA Lewis Research Center, located in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1940, when Congress authorized funding for a third laboratory for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, through the 1980s. The history of the laboratory is discussed in relation to the development of American propulsion technology, with particular focus on the transition in the 1940s from the use of piston engines in airplanes to j…
Chain Reaction
Knowledge Is Power
Knowledge Is Power: E. G. Bailey and the Invention and Marketing of the Bailey Boiler Meter VIRGINIA P. DAWSON From the time of the Industrial Revolution through World War I, the stoker—back hunched, sinewy shoulders glistening in the eerie glare from the furnace, lungs filling with coal dust—fed indus try’s hungry fires. The 18th-century stoker, or fireman, possessed high-order craft knowledge “breathed in by the sooty atmosphere in which he li…
Knowledge Is Power
Le compteur de la chaudiere, invente par Bailey (E.G.) en 1913 associe les fonctions d'un indicateur du foyer de la chaudiere refletant le taux de flux d'air et de vapeur
Space and the American Imagination . Howard E. McCurdy
BFGoodrich
Reviewed by: BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870–1995* Virginia P. Dawson (bio) BFGoodrich: Tradition and Transformation, 1870–1995. By Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997. Pp. x+507; illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, index. $30. Ohio State professors Mansel G. Blackford and K. Austin Kerr have produced a definitive 125-year history of the BFGoodrich Company. Company sponsorship g…
Wheels of Fortune
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