Elmer Sperry by Thomas Parker Hughes
This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. He was best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, and his inventions included arc-light systems, mining machinery, electric automobiles and streetcars, and electrochemical processes. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life. The book won the Dexter Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.-
What Engineers Know and How They Know It
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The Draining of the Fens
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Water Technology in the Middle Ages
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Steam Laundries
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
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Leonardo to the Internet
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The Tablet Computer
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The Machine in the Nursery
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To the Digital Age
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The Business of Speed
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Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964
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Inventing the Cotton Gin
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American Iron, 1607-1900
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The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920
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Transforming Computer Technology
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The Course of Industrial Decline
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Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn
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Civil War Ironclads
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Alexanderson
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Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945
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Edison and the Business of Innovation
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Engineering Victory
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All the Modern Conveniences
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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation
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Faxed
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High Performance
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The Technology of Orgasm
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Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922
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Air-Conditioning America
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A Nation of Steel
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The Business of Civil War
Superb.. In this careful study of a single inventor, Hughes has done more to demonstrate the 'questionable' nature of traditional accounts of invention than all of the theoretical arguments of the past few years combined. Technology and Culture
Thomas P. Hughes is professor of the history of modern science and technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Changing Attitudes toward American Technology and Networks of Power:Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780801847561 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801847567 |
| Title | Elmer Sperry |
| Author | Thomas Parker Hughes |
| Series | Johns Hopkins Studies In The History Of Technology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1993-11-26 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of Dexter Prize for an Outstanding Book on the History of Technology 1972 (United States) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |