Stuart W Leslie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 234039 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stuart W Leslie |
| PRENOMES | Stuart W |
| SOBRENOME | Leslie |
| ASSINATURA | LESLIE S W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Modernism with a Soul
This essay explores how film, feature and documentary, can offer a new perspective on modernist architecture, industrial design, and urban planning. Through the lens of two young directors, Kogonada and Davide Maffei, it traces the histories of two twentieth-century company towns: Ivrea, Italy, headquarters of Italian business machine giant Olivetti, and Columbus, Indiana, U.S.A., home to Cummins Inc., a global leader in diesel engine design and …
Cold War Suburbs
At the height of the Cold War, in both the US and the Soviet Union, top technical talent was ensconced in state-of-the-art laboratories set among new suburbs with cultural amenities. In Orange County, California, defense research labs were enticed by capitalist strategies; in the USSR, by government command. In both, the new white-collar suburbs made moves to the new centers attractive. The architecture of the housing as well as of the research l…
Richard Macksey and the Humanities Center
Richard Macksey and the Humanities Center Stuart W. Leslie For four days in October 1966 Johns Hopkins became the beachhead of a French invasion that would fundamentally transform the humanities across the American academic landscape. "The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man: The Structuralist Controversy" put Hopkins on the map as the place where the leading lights of French literary theory and their American interlocutors began a gen…
Rise of the Modern Hospital
Reviewed by: Rise of the Modern Hospital: An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870–1940 by Jeanne Kisacky Stuart W. Leslie Jeanne Kisacky. Rise of the Modern Hospital: An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870–1940. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. vii + 448 pp. Ill. $65.00 (978-0-8229-4461-4). Just as Le Corbusier considered a house a machine for living in, so he envisioned a hospital as a carefully contro…
Griffith observatory
Hollywood has always been about seeing and being seen and Griffith Observatory, perched on Mount Hollywood overlooking the Los Angeles metropolis, is the perfect stage set for a cosmic drama. In this article, the authors show how the Observatory’s form and function are uniquely Southern California productions. Since Griffith J. Griffith bequeathed funds for a public observatory in 1919, the astronomical community at the California Institute of Te…
Atomic structures
A half-century after their completion, India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology (PINSTECH) stand out as unchallenged architectural advertisements for ‘nuclear nationalism’. Elsewhere, Atoms for Peace reactors made no pretence to architectural refinement. In the right hands, however, ‘Cold War Modern’ could express the hard power of the nuclear age. For India and Pakistan, these nucl…
Aerospaces
Architect Albert C. Martin, Jr.’s aerospace laboratories and manufacturing complexes, along with the residential developments surrounding them, visually and symbolically defined a new industry and a new lifestyle. For about a decade, roughly 1956–66, Martin’s designs for Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, the Aerospace Corporation, North American Aviation and other firms gave Los Angeles a unique industrial landscape. Aerospace modernism offers a way of r…
The Strategy of Structure
The Alcoa Building (1953) and Fiberglas Tower (1969) exemplify “architecture parlante”, literally buildings that speak of their function and meaning. They said—in steel, aluminum and (fiber)glass—this is who we are; this is what we do; this is how we do it. They provided prestige, visibility, and a sense of collective identity. Alcoa and Owens-Corning intended their signature buildings as larger than life advertisements for their signature produc…
Lynwood Bryant, 1908-2005
Lynwood Bryant, 1908–2005 Stuart W. Leslie (bio) Lynwood Bryant had one essential question: "So what's the bright idea here?" His gifted teaching, meticulous editing, dogged research, and graceful writing inspired generations of MIT undergraduates and colleagues to identify those bright ideas and give them forceful expression. First and foremost, he considered himself a teacher, and he measured his success by how much his students learned, not by…
Exporting MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) emerged from World War II with an impressive, worldwide reputation in basic and applied science and engineering. After redefining its own engineering education in the 1950s, MIT responded to the challenge of U.S. policy makers and foundation officials and its own sense of mission in engineering research, teaching, and practice by assisting in establishing new technical institutions of higher education a…
After the Smoke Clears
Reviewed by: After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America Stuart W. Leslie (bio) After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America. By Steve Mellon. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Pp. 136. $29. Legendary photographer Eugene Smith arrived in Pittsburgh in 1955 to capture "the city as a living entity" and "the people who give it heart and pulse," as he told the Guggenheim Foundation. Thirty-six …
In Reply
Regional Disadvantage
"New York's Tech Valley"? To a skeptic, or a venture capitalist, that slogan, coined by the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce, might sound more like wishful thinking than a realistic plan for regional development. 1 To outsiders the Capital Region of New York more often symbolizes the achievements of the first American industrial revolution, not the promises of the second. Troy may have been the "Silicon Valley of the Nineteenth Century…
Industrial Versailles
Eero Saarinen may be a familiar name to architectural historians for his designs for Dulles Airport, the St. Louis Arch, and other late modernist landmarks. Yet his biggest commissions were for corporate research laboratories for General Motors, IBM, and Bell Laboratories. In 1951 Fortune sent a photographer to document GM's sprawling "research campus," just beginning to take shape in suburban Detroit. The photographs capture what the editors cal…
Reestablishing a Conversation in STS
Finding an appropriate place for STS within the American science and engineering curriculum has never been easy. Convincing science, engineering, and medical students, and their professors, to pay serious attention to the broader context of their respective professions seems to require a sustained dialogue across conventional disciplinary boundaries. Otherwise, STS ends up talking mostly to itself and its critics rather than to its most important…
Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective (review)
Reviewed by: Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective Stuart W. Leslie John V. Pickstone, ed. Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. xv + 288 pp. Ill. $49.95. Representing what might be called the “Manchester School”—most of the contributors are or have been affiliated with the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine there—this collection ranges selectively (idiosyncratically?) across British med…
New Atlantis Revisited
Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes? Kaist and the Challenges of Late Industrialization
Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons
Selling Silicon Valley
This paper explores the origins of the Silicon Valley model for regional economic development, and attempts to deploy this model elsewhere in the United States and abroad. Frederick Terman, Stanford's provost, first envisioned its unique partnership of academia and industry, and trained the first generation of students who effected it. He patiently cultivated an aggressively entrepreneurial culture in what he called “the newly emerging community …
The Cold War and American Science
Osiris, 2d Ser., Vol. 7
Electronics and the geography of innovation in post‐war America
This study looks at three important centres of post‐war American electronics research and manufacturing ‐ the Princeton corridor in New Jersey, Dallas, Texas, and Silicon Valley ‐ as a way of understanding shifting patterns of regional competitiveness. We consider each of these technoregions not as models but rather as ecologies of mutually dependent institutions, corporate, academic, and governmental. We were especially intrigued by the attempts…
The Cold War and American Science
The Cold War and American Science
Journal Article The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. By Stuart W. Leslie. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xvi, 332 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-231-07958-3.) Get access John W. Servos John W. Servos Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1369–1…
Selling Silicon Valley
This paper explores the origins of the Silicon Valley model for regional economic development, and attempts to deploy this model elsewhere in the United States and abroad. Frederick Terman, Stanford's provost, first envisioned its unique partnership of academia and industry, and trained the first generation of students who effected it. He patiently cultivated an aggressively entrepreneurial culture in what he called “the newly emerging community …
Industrial Versailles
Eero Saarinen may be a familiar name to architectural historians for his designs for Dulles Airport, the St. Louis Arch, and other late modernist landmarks. Yet his biggest commissions were for corporate research laboratories for General Motors, IBM, and Bell Laboratories. In 1951 Fortune sent a photographer to document GM's sprawling "research campus," just beginning to take shape in suburban Detroit. The photographs capture what the editors cal…
The Cold War and American Science
Journal Article The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. By Stuart W. Leslie. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xvi, 332 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-231-07958-3.) Get access John W. Servos John W. Servos Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1369–1…
Exporting MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) emerged from World War II with an impressive, worldwide reputation in basic and applied science and engineering. After redefining its own engineering education in the 1950s, MIT responded to the challenge of U.S. policy makers and foundation officials and its own sense of mission in engineering research, teaching, and practice by assisting in establishing new technical institutions of higher education a…
Regional Disadvantage
"New York's Tech Valley"? To a skeptic, or a venture capitalist, that slogan, coined by the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce, might sound more like wishful thinking than a realistic plan for regional development. 1 To outsiders the Capital Region of New York more often symbolizes the achievements of the first American industrial revolution, not the promises of the second. Troy may have been the "Silicon Valley of the Nineteenth Century…
Winning Markets or Winning Nobel Prizes? Kaist and the Challenges of Late Industrialization
Thomas Midgley and the Politics of Industrial Research
The conventional distinctions between “practical” and “scientific” research and development can be misleading. The experience of Thomas Midgley, Jr., at the General Motors Corporation in the three decades before World War II, and especially his critical role in the development of “antiknock” gasoline additives, freon refrigerant, and synthetic rubber, illustrate this fact. Dr. Leslie demonstrates that the management of corporate research and deve…
The Cold War and American Science
The Cold War and American Science
Communities of Nineteenth-Century Science and Technology
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-Cooled Engine
Visitors to the 1923 New York Auto Show were greeted by the following statement in the exhibit area: Chevrolet Motor Company announces an important development in economical transportation, consisting of a motor embodying new application of established principles governing the efficient control of motor temperatures under all weather conditions.' This advertisement announced General Motors' latest strategic innovation in the fight against Ford: t…
Charles F. Kettering and the Copper-Cooled Engine
Visitors to the 1923 New York Auto Show were greeted by the following statement in the exhibit area: Chevrolet Motor Company announces an important development in economical transportation, consisting of a motor embodying new application of established principles governing the efficient control of motor temperatures under all weather conditions.' This advertisement announced General Motors' latest strategic innovation in the fight against Ford: t…
Thomas Midgley and the Politics of Industrial Research
The conventional distinctions between “practical” and “scientific” research and development can be misleading. The experience of Thomas Midgley, Jr., at the General Motors Corporation in the three decades before World War II, and especially his critical role in the development of “antiknock” gasoline additives, freon refrigerant, and synthetic rubber, illustrate this fact. Dr. Leslie demonstrates that the management of corporate research and deve…
The Urban Habitat
Technical museums, descended from the industrial expositions of the 19th century, have largely preserved the ideology as well as the artifacts of that century. And technical museums have become a favorite target for historians of technology. As George Basalla has pointed out, most of them still reflect the technological utopianism that gave them birth. Basalla identified three common approaches by technical museums that have obscured accurate his…
Boss Kettering
Macro
The Making of a Profession
Forces of Production
The American Automobile Industry
Volume I
RCA and the VideoDisc
Communities of Nineteenth-Century Science and Technology
Entrepreneurial Science
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 147 institutions: the growth of the universities after the Higher Education Law of 1878, the expansion of industry after 1890, the increasing number and scale of hospitals, the curious lack of patent law between 1869 and 1912 (a characteristic the Netherlands shared with Switzer land), and so on. It is also unfortunate that, except for Van Lieburg, none of the authors has attempted to compare developments in t…
Entrepreneurial Science
Technology 2000: An Overview The Biotechnology Company: An Entrepreneurial Pattern Large Companies Look to the University The Universities: Allies with Industry Federal and State Assistance for High-Technology Procompetitive Research: A New Way to Do Business The Technology Transfer Specialists The Financing of New Ventures The Research and Development Limited Partnership: Potentials and Problems Government Strategies in R&D: A Comparison Some Im…
The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program
Journal Article The American Synthetic Rubber Research Program. By Peter J. T. Morris. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. xii + 191 pp. $34.95.) Get access Stuart W. Leslie Stuart W. Leslie Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1411–1412, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078378 Published: 01 March 1991
The Compulsions of Cold War Science
The growth of Cold War tensions and the development of big science in the United States were intimately, and often inextricably, related. These two books provide vivid case studies of the connections between Cold War concerns and scientific activities. Both show how government spending to fight the Cold War helped cement an alliance between science and the military and, in important ways, defined the priorities that scientists addressed. They des…
The Laser in America, 1950-1970
Osiris, 2d Ser., Vol. 7
Electronics and the geography of innovation in post‐war America
This study looks at three important centres of post‐war American electronics research and manufacturing ‐ the Princeton corridor in New Jersey, Dallas, Texas, and Silicon Valley ‐ as a way of understanding shifting patterns of regional competitiveness. We consider each of these technoregions not as models but rather as ecologies of mutually dependent institutions, corporate, academic, and governmental. We were especially intrigued by the attempts…
The Cold War and American Science
The Cold War and American Science
Journal Article The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford. By Stuart W. Leslie. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xvi, 332 pp. $42.00, ISBN 0-231-07958-3.) Get access John W. Servos John W. Servos Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1369–1…
The Cold War and American Science
The Cold War and American Science
The Cold War and American Science
The Cold War and American Science
Selling Silicon Valley
This paper explores the origins of the Silicon Valley model for regional economic development, and attempts to deploy this model elsewhere in the United States and abroad. Frederick Terman, Stanford's provost, first envisioned its unique partnership of academia and industry, and trained the first generation of students who effected it. He patiently cultivated an aggressively entrepreneurial culture in what he called “the newly emerging community …
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