• Aage Gerhardt Drachmann (22 October 1891 – 9 April 1980) was a Danish librarian and historian of science and technology, one of the 20th century's foremost...
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    and found that it best matched the details of an eclipse in 62 AD; A. G. Drachmann subsequently surmised that Hero personally observed the eclipse from...
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    represent technical ingenuity but not technological progress." See A. G. Drachmann, The Classical Civilization, pp. 55–56. Aeolipile Vitruvius (17 May...
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    Issue 1 (1995), pp. 1–30 (10f.) A. G. Drachmann, "Hero's Windmill", Centaurus, 7 (1961), pp. 145–151 Shepherd, Dennis G. (December 1990). "Historical development...
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    College, received a master's and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for...
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    Bibcode:1996Natur.379...60J. doi:10.1038/379060a0. S2CID 205026185. A. G. Drachmann (1961). "Heron's Windmill". Centaurus. 7 (2): 145–151. Bibcode:1960Cent...
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  • Cohen (1914–2003) A. C. Crombie (1915–1996) E. J. Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) A. G. Drachmann (1891–1980) Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019)...
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    and 32 Fig. Leiden: Brill, 1958. Print, OCLC 300163270. Reviewed by A. G. Drachmann in Isis 50, #4 (December 1959), pp. 498-499, JSTOR 226446. Forbes,...
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  • Thomas A. Edison (1983)† Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 (1985) Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology...
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    1353/tech.1984.a890032. JSTOR 3104244. PMID 11615964. S2CID 35626138. Turner, G.L'e (1984). "Obituary Derek John de Solla Price 1922-1983". Annals of Science...
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  • Miller, Donald L. (1989). Lewis Mumford: A Life. Grove Press. p. 274. ISBN 9780802139344. Novak, Frank G. Jr. (2007). "Introduction". In Old Friendship:...
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    School. Cowan has a B.A. in zoology from Barnard College, an M.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in the history...
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  • mother was a homemaker. He grew up in New York City and Paris; his father died when Leo was a child. He graduated from Harvard University with a BA in history...
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  • Volume 20 (2016) University of Pennsylvania Faculty Page Economic Principals G. Pascal Zachary, "Remembering Thomas P. Hughes," in New Atlantis 42 (Spring...
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    reflection itself is found in Proposition XIX of Euclid's Optics. A. G. Drachmann, "Heron's Windmill", Centaurus, 7 (1961), pp. 145–151 Dietrich Lohrmann...
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  • 1380–1780 (1986) C.U.P. A Selection from the Writings of Joseph Needham ed Mansel Davies, The Book Guild 1990 Four Great Inventions G. E. R. Lloyd List of...
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    exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond academia to a broad audience in 2000. She appeared as a commentator in Ken Burns' 1992 documentary Empire of...
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  • Otto Mayr (born November 2, 1930) is a German mechanical engineer, historian of technology, curator, author and former director of the National Museum...
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  • Kranzberg 1968 Joseph Needham 1969 Lewis Mumford 1970 Bertrand Gille 1971 A. G. Drachmann 1972 Ladislao Reti 1973 Carl W. Condit 1974 Bern Dibner 1975 Friedrich...
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  • technology. In 1979-80, she was a Fulbright grantee in Italy. In 2007, she was chosen as a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2014, she was made a MacArthur Fellow. Long...
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  • University, receiving a B.S. in 1972. He then changed fields and enrolled in the University of Delaware's history program earning a M.S. in 1975. He continued...
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  • aeronautics. Shortly before finishing his graduate degree, he accepted a job offer from Russell G. Robinson to work at the Ames Laboratory. During World War II...
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  • social consequences of technology. In A History of Mechanical Inventions Usher argued that technological innovation was a slow, collective process with many...
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  • David Saul Landes (April 29, 1924 – August 17, 2013) was a professor of economics and of history at Harvard University. He is the author of Bankers and...
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  • Bridge: The Generation and Diffusion of Technological Knowledge (with Walter G. Vincenti), 1978 Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics, 1983 International...
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    Wiebe E. Bijker (born 19 March 1951, Delft) is a Dutch professor Emeritus, former chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht...
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  • of the manuscript was written by later Arabic authors. The scholar A. G. Drachmann believes that the manuscript was assembled from Arabic translations...
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  • University with a Ph.D. His research focuses on the history of technological innovation and social change. He is currently[as of?] writing a monograph on...
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    Lars Svante Albert Lindqvist (born 26 April 1948) is a Swedish historian who was the Marshal of the Realm of Sweden and chief of the Royal Court of Sweden...
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    library he would found, was represents a portmanteau or blend of his first and last names. In 1954, Dibner was a board member of the American Jewish League...
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