Terry S Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 985473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry S Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry S |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape (review)
Reviewed by: Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape Terry S. Reynolds (bio) Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape. By Brian Hayes . New York: W.W. Norton, 2005. Pp. v+536. $49.95/ $35. Infrastructure is a hard work to review. It does not fit neatly into any category. In some ways it combines elements of "how things work" manuals with photographic studies of industrial landscapes, such as those produced by Be…
Quite an Experiment: A Mining Company's Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, 1895-1915
Quite an Experiment”: A Mining Company’s Attempt to Promote Agriculture on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 1895–1915
Between 1895 and 1915 Cleveland-Cliffs, one of America’s leading iron mining companies, became deeply involved in promoting agricultural development on Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula. Its two-decade-long attempt to identify appropriate plants and farming practices and thus to extend the agricultural frontier into this region was ambitious. It included an experimental garden, a greenhouse and nursery, an attempt to produce fertilizer locally, t…
The Great Kanawha Navigation (review)
One of the early schemes for a trans-Appalachian waterway system involved linking the James River in Virginia, which flowed into the Atlantic, with the Great Kanawha River, a tributary of the Ohio. Although this project was never consummated, the dream of a central water line survived into the post-Civil War era. Between 1875 and 1898 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a series of ten low-lift moveable dams [End Page 364] spread over near…
On Not Burning Bridges: Valuing the Passe
The focus of my remarks tonight will be on the need for respect and toleration of seemingly obsolete approaches to scholarship in the history of technology, because these approaches may offer better bridges to certain of our external audiences than our most avant-garde scholarship
The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present . Martin V. Melosi
Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly. Richard White
STS at Michigan Technological University: A History and Profile
At Michigan Tech, science, technology, and society (STS) was introduced as a means of attracting new students to the school, providing general education courses more attractive to engineering students, and furnishing a focus for an unfocused, multidisciplinary department of the Social Sciences. STS enjoyed very limited success in the first two areas; however, using STS as a focus for a hitherto unfocused department has been highly successful and …
Technical Knowledge in American Culture: Science, Technology, and Medicine since the Early 1800s
The Engineer in History . John Rae, Rudi Volti
Lehigh University: A History of Education in Engineering, Business, and the Human Condition
This work documents the history of Lehigh University. The University was founded by Asa Packer to provide a useful education for men planning careers in engineering, applied science, and the professions. Today Lehigh continues in its traditions of providing varied and high quality educational opportunities. Illustrated
Lehigh University: A History of Education in Engineering, Business, and the Human Condition by W. Ross Yates
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 207 Lehigh University: A History ofEducation in Engineering, Business, and the Human Condition. By W. Ross Yates. Bethlehem, Pa., and Cranbury, N.J.: Lehigh University Press and Associated University Presses, 1992. Pp. 334; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $48.50. In the late 19th century, philanthropic industrial magnates like Carnegie, Case, and Wentworth established educational institutions designe…
The Making of a Mining District: Keweenaw Native Copper, 1500-1870 . David J. Krause
The Education of Engineers in America before the Morrill Act of 1862
The traditional view of antebellum colleges, as exemplified by the works of Richard Hofstadter and others, depicts them as dogmatic, elitist, inflexible, and hostile both to science and to more practically oriented subjects, such as engineering. Only in recent decades have scholars disputed this view. Stanley Guralnick in 1975 challenged the contention that antebellum colleges were antagonistic to science, demonstrating that they made extraordina…
Ensayo sobre la composición de las máquinas. José María de Lanz , Augustín de Betancourt , Manuel Díaz-Marta
A Promising Field: Engineering at Alabama, 1837-1987 by Robert J. Norrell
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 607 triumphantly scaled the bureaucratic pyramid, threatening the ex pert’s role in government with his accumulated experience. The confrontation of and resultant competition between administrators and experts both tempers the patronage system of distribution and quenches the drive toward technocracy. The collection does possess these two virtues, but unfortunately they have to be inferred by the reader. In fi…
A Promising Field: Engineering at Alabama, 1837-1987
Technology in Transition: The “Soo” Ship Canal, 1889–1985 by Robert W. Passfield (review)
880 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Technology in Transition: The “Soo” Ship Canal, 1889—1985. By Rob ert W. Passfield. Ottawa: Canadian Parks Service/Environment Can ada, 1989. Pp. 267; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $14.25 in Canada; $17.10 outside Canada (paper). Available from Cana dian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, Hull, Quebec KIA OS9, cat. no. R61-2/9-39E. Although many Americans may not reali…
Technology in Transition: The "Soo" Ship Canal, 1889-1985
Medieval Ironwork in Sweden by Lennart Karlsson
514 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Medieval Ironwork in Sweden. 2 vols. By Lennart Karlsson. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1988. Pp. 437 + 615; illustrations, bibliography. Skr 655.00. To some extent Medieval Ironwork in Sweden is misleadingly titled. It deals only with decorative ironwork and overwhelmingly with the decorative ironwork on church doors. Lennart Karlsson describes a few examples of medieval ironwork on grilles, chests, and c…
Medieval Ironwork in Sweden
Edison and 'the chair' [legal electrocution, history]
Although Thomas Edison had little knowledge of the biological effects of electric currents on humans, he exerted a pivotal influence on the early history of legal electrocution, from the decision to substitute electrocution for hanging in 1888 to the actual design of an electric chair in 1892. The authors suggest he was able to play a pivotal role because of his status as an electrical wizard, demonstrating how largely nontechnical, nonscientific…
A History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1871–1971 by W. J. Reader
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 479 to assess the role of invention in the business accomplishments of a major British machine-tool producer, as well as to discuss sources of capital and the contribution made by business partners and employees to the firm’s success. Nasmyth served as personal assistant to Henry Maudslay between 1829 and 1831, then returned to Edinburgh to make preparations for establishing himself as an independent engineer. …
The Machine in the University: Sample Course Syllabi for the History of Technology and Technology Studies
"Water Power in the "Wilderness: The History of Bonneville Lock and Dam by William F. Willingham
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 141 The reader will find no coherent account of Morgan’s relation to specific intellectual or ideological currents. Eugenics and progressive education receive a few pages and “planning” a lively seven-page discussion. But, without explanation, the biographer notes that Mor gan “never cared much for electricity” (p. 7); and he refers only briefly to the conservation movement. Morgan’s disdain for the Army En g…
The Education of Engineers in America before the Morrill Act of 1862
The traditional view of antebellum colleges, as exemplified by the works of Richard Hofstadter and others, depicts them as dogmatic, elitist, inflexible, and hostile both to science and to more practically oriented subjects, such as engineering. Only in recent decades have scholars disputed this view. Stanley Guralnick in 1975 challenged the contention that antebellum colleges were antagonistic to science, demonstrating that they made extraordina…
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930
Scientific Influences on Technology: The Case of the Overshot Waterwheel, 1752-1754
Between 1752 and 1754 John Smeaton, an English engineer; Antoine de Parcieux, a practically oriented French mathematician; and Johann Albrecht Euler, a Swiss-German physicist and astronomer, independently established that the overshot-gravity waterwheel was significantly more efficient than the traditional undershot-impulse wheel. Since their work is sometimes cited as an early example of the successful application of science to technology, and s…
Hydraulics in the United States, 1776-1976 . Hunter Rouse
Protecting the Royal Navy from Lightning-William Snow Harris and His Struggle with the British Admiralty for Fixed Lightning Conductors
Following Benjamin Franklin's announcement of the lightning rod in 1752, a protection system was devised for ships of the Royal Navy which used a chain conductor draped into the sea from the top of the mast. This system had only limited success since the chain, raised when lightning was expected, often was not installed when lightning struck; interfered with seamen manning the rigging; and was not capable of conducting some lightning strokes with…
Scientific Influences on Technology: The Case of the Overshot Waterwheel, 1752-1754
Between 1752 and 1754 John Smeaton, an English engineer; Antoine de Parcieux, a practically oriented French mathematician; and Johann Albrecht Euler, a Swiss-German physicist and astronomer, independently established that the overshot-gravity waterwheel was significantly more efficient than the traditional undershot-impulse wheel. Since their work is sometimes cited as an early example of the successful application of science to technology, and s…
Water Power in Scotland, 1550-1870 . John Shaw
Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930
The Microwave Debate . Nicholas H. Steneck
Industrialization and the Industrial Heritage in International Perspective: Lowell Conference on Industrial History; The International Conference on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage; And Co…
Larry D. Lankton, Terry S. Reynolds, Industrialization and the Industrial Heritage in International Perspective: Lowell Conference on Industrial History; The International Conference on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage; And Conference of the Society for Industrial Archeology-Lowell, Cambridge, and Boston, Massachusetts, June 7-17, 1984, Technology and Culture, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1985), pp. 268-274
Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel
Sault Ste. Marie: A Project Report
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Volume II: Steam Power . Louis C. Hunter
Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century
Terry S. Reynolds, Defining Professional Boundaries: Chemical Engineering in the Early 20th Century, Technology and Culture, Vol. 27, No. 4, Special Issue: Engineering in the Twentieth Century (Oct., 1986), pp. 694-716
Years of Progress-A History of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 1908-1983
Medieval Iron in Society-Norberg, Sweden, May 6-10, 1985
Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950
Review of: Great River: An Environmental History of the Upper Mississippi, 1890-1950. Scarpino, Philip V
Edison and 'the chair' [legal electrocution, history]
Although Thomas Edison had little knowledge of the biological effects of electric currents on humans, he exerted a pivotal influence on the early history of legal electrocution, from the decision to substitute electrocution for hanging in 1888 to the actual design of an electric chair in 1892. The authors suggest he was able to play a pivotal role because of his status as an electrical wizard, demonstrating how largely nontechnical, nonscientific…
A History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1871–1971 by W. J. Reader
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 479 to assess the role of invention in the business accomplishments of a major British machine-tool producer, as well as to discuss sources of capital and the contribution made by business partners and employees to the firm’s success. Nasmyth served as personal assistant to Henry Maudslay between 1829 and 1831, then returned to Edinburgh to make preparations for establishing himself as an independent engineer. …
The Machine in the University: Sample Course Syllabi for the History of Technology and Technology Studies
"Water Power in the "Wilderness: The History of Bonneville Lock and Dam by William F. Willingham
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 141 The reader will find no coherent account of Morgan’s relation to specific intellectual or ideological currents. Eugenics and progressive education receive a few pages and “planning” a lively seven-page discussion. But, without explanation, the biographer notes that Mor gan “never cared much for electricity” (p. 7); and he refers only briefly to the conservation movement. Morgan’s disdain for the Army En g…
"Water Power in the "Wilderness: The History of Bonneville Lock and Dam
Engineering and building Bonneville Dam in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge proved a monumental task. The complex geology of the gorge combined with the great volume of the swift flowing Columbia to present many complex problems of site selection, proper construction techniques, and equipment design. The project first received serious consideration in a 1931 Corps of Engineers' report to Congress. This study, the famous 308 Report, recommend…
A History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 1871-1971
Iron in the Wilderness: The Michigan Iron Industry Museum
In the late 19th century the American iron and steel industry rose to international prominence largely because of high-grade iron ores taken from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Upper Michigan's Marquette, Menominee, and Gogebic iron ranges provided the bulk of the ores that fed American blast furnaces from 1880 until 1900, when ores from the Mesabi Range enabled Minnesota to surpass Michigan as the leading iron ore-producing state. Even after 1…
Technology in Transition: The “Soo” Ship Canal, 1889–1985 by Robert W. Passfield (review)
880 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Technology in Transition: The “Soo” Ship Canal, 1889—1985. By Rob ert W. Passfield. Ottawa: Canadian Parks Service/Environment Can ada, 1989. Pp. 267; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $14.25 in Canada; $17.10 outside Canada (paper). Available from Cana dian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, Hull, Quebec KIA OS9, cat. no. R61-2/9-39E. Although many Americans may not reali…
Technology in Transition: The "Soo" Ship Canal, 1889-1985
Medieval Ironwork in Sweden by Lennart Karlsson
514 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Medieval Ironwork in Sweden. 2 vols. By Lennart Karlsson. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1988. Pp. 437 + 615; illustrations, bibliography. Skr 655.00. To some extent Medieval Ironwork in Sweden is misleadingly titled. It deals only with decorative ironwork and overwhelmingly with the decorative ironwork on church doors. Lennart Karlsson describes a few examples of medieval ironwork on grilles, chests, and c…
Medieval Ironwork in Sweden
Engineering (21 works) · Political science (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · History (16 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (14 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Library science (11 works) · Engineering ethics (8 works) · Law (8 works)