Bernard S Finn

Biographic Data

ID958457
NAMEBernard S Finn
GIVEN NAMESBernard S
FAMILY NAMEFinn
SIGNATUREFINN B S
AFFILIATIONSSmithsonian Institution
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX1

  • Bell and Gray: Just a Coincidence

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    This essay review examines Seth Shulman's The Telephone Gambit , A. Edward Evenson's The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876 , Burton Baker's The Gray Matter: The Forgotten Story of the Telephone , and Charlotte Gray's Reluctant Genius: Alexander Graham Bell and the Passion for Invention . Baker, Evenson, and Shulman argue that Bell inserted a clause in his 1876 patent application describing a variable-resistance (liquid) transmitter that he had …

  • Sir Charles Wheatstone, FRS, 1802-1875 (review)

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    Sir Charles Wheatstone, FRS, 1802-1875. By Brian Bowers. 2nd ed. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 2002. Pp. xvii+235. £39

  • City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics (review)

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

    This book can surely stand as a model of what the Sloan Foundation intended for its Sloan Technology Series. It treats a complex and recently emerged technology in a manner understandable to an intelligent lay audience and in a style that is somewhat short of John Grisham but substantially above (say) my own sourcebook on submarine cables. [End Page 194]

  • Brooke Hindle, 28 September 1918-3 June 2001

    Bernard S Finn, Bernard FinnARTICLEIsis2002Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric Stephen B. Adams Orville R. Butler Lincoln Electric: A History Virginia P. Dawson

    Bernard S FinnARTICLEThe Public Historian2001

  • Exhibiting Electricity

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture1999

    Reviewed by: Exhibiting Electricity * Bernard Finn (bio) Exhibiting Electricity. By K. G. Beauchamp. London: The Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1997. Pp. xiii+338; illustrations, tables, notes, index. $85. Exhibiting Electricity is more a chronicle than a history, but as such it should prove useful to a wide range of historians of technology. Perhaps its most valuable feature is a table, spread over pages 25 to 29, listing 164 “major techno…

  • The History of Electrical Technology: An Annotated Bibliography

    Romualdas Sviedrys, Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945

    Bernard S Finn, Daniel R HeadrickARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

  • The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 by Daniel R. Headrick

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture1993

    180 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE than those in the industrialized world. Therefore, the leading man­ ufacturers in each industrial sector cooperated to establish monopo­ lies and oligopolies, dividing up the markets. Prices tended to be high, and profits sufficed but hardly abounded, says Haber. Permanently unable to compete on international markets, the domestic industrial­ ists kept pressing the government to continue tariff protections.…

  • Benjamin Franklin's Science . I. Bernard Cohen

    Bernard S FinnARTICLEIsis1992

  • Exhibit Reviews-Twenty Years After

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

  • Exhibit Reviews—Twenty Years After

    Bernard S FinnARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    Commentary EXHIBIT REVIEWS—TWENTY YEARS AFTER BERNARD S. FINN In 1968 Thomas Leavitt formally suggested that museum exhibits should be reviewed in this journal.1 As he pointed out, it was not the first time someone had called for professional critiques of museum exhibits, but it probably was the first time the suggestion had been made with respect to the history of technology. More important, the proposal had results. After a modest beginning, th…

  • Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention

    Eugene S Ferguson, Robert Friedel et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1988Cited by: 6

  • The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Meeting, October 23-26, 1986

    Paul Durbin, Brooke Hindle et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1987

    Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, MEETING, OCTOBER 23—26, 1986 More than 275 people attended the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) at the Pittsburgh Hilton, October 23—26, 1986. The meeting was held simultaneously with those of the History of Science Society (HSS), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); total attendance at Pitt…

  • Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention

    Jeffrey L Meikle, Robert Friedel et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. By Robert Friedel and Paul Israel with Bernard S. Finn. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1986. xvi + 263 pp. $35.00.) Get access Jeffery L. Meikle Jeffery L. Meikle University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 770–771, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903…

  • History of Electricity at the Smithsonian

    Open AccessBernard S Finn, Arthur P MolellaARTICLEIEEE Transactions on Education1984

    The Division of Electricity at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is the national repository for objects significant to the history of electrical science and technology. Although the Division has operated as a separate unit for less than three decades, activities at the Institution have contributed to the study of electrical history since the middle of the 19th century. This paper describes how collecting and exhibition policies …

  • Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas . Carroll W. Pursell

    Bernard S FinnARTICLEIsis1983

  • Measuring Instruments: Tools of Knowledge and Control

    Bernard S Finn, Peter H SydenhamARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

  • Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer

    Bernard S Finn, Kent C Redmond et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1982

    Journal Article Project Whirlwind: The History of a Pioneer Computer. By Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith. (Bedford, Mass.: Digital, 1980. xv + 280 pp. Illustrations, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $21.00.) Get access Bernard S. Finn Bernard S. Finn Smithsonian Institution Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 1, June 1982, Pages 210–211, https://do…

  • From Spark to Satellite: A History of Radio Communication . Stanley Leinwoll

    Bernard S FinnARTICLEIsis1980

  • A Retrospective Technology Assessment: Submarine Telegraphy-The Transatlantic Cable of 1866

    Leonard S Reich, Vary Coates et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1980

  • The Washington Meeting, October 19-22, 1977

    Lynwood Bryant, Theodore A Penn et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1978

    Organizational Notes THE WASHINGTON MEETING, OCTOBER 19-22, 1977 The twentieth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology was held in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian Institu­ tion, October 19-22, 1977. Over 200 members and guests attended the program sessions, social events, and business meetings. (An ac­ count of the business meetings appears in the January 1978 issue of the SHOT Newsletter.) Chairman of the Program Committ…

  • History of Electrical Technology: The State of the Art

    Bernard S FinnARTICLEIsis1976

  • Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects. Francis Hauksbee

    Bernard S FinnARTICLEIsis1972

  • Output of Eighteenth-Century Electrostatic Machines

    Open AccessBernard S FinnARTICLEThe British Journal for the…1971References: 1

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