Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

University.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo
Keji Shiliao 25 (2004): 300–314.
3352. DAMER, Eric. Discovery by Design: The Department
of Mechanical Engineering of the University
of British Columbia, Origins and History, 1907–2001.
(xii + 226 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Vancouver: Ronsdale
Press, 2002. ISBN: 0921870957.
3353. DOYLE, Kathleen Markert. “Contributions of
the Theory of Conformal Mapping to the Field of
Electrical Engineering Education and Practice.” Diss.
Abstr. Int. A 66/05 (2005): 1683.
Dissertation at Columbia University, 2005. Adviser: Vogeli,
Bruce R. UMI pub. no. 3174779. 109 pp. Focus on
the “developments made by a group of electrical engineers
during the early portion of the 20th century.” (from the
abstract)
3354. DUNCAN, Francis. Rickover: The Struggle
for Excellence. (xviii + 364 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001. ISBN:
1557501777.
Hyman Rickover was a U.S. Navy engineer who pioneered
nuclear propulsion for submarines.
3355. FAROOQUE, Mahmud. “The Evolution of
Technological Forecasting and Contemporary Policy
Systems, 1935–1999.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/02
(2004): 670.
Dissertation at George Mason University, 2004. Adviser:
Kash, Don E. UMI pub. no. 3121788. 340 pp.
3356. GUO Jin-hai. “Investigations of New Formulas
for Helical Springs by A. M. Wahl & Joseph K. Wood
and Wang Ki-Tung’s Response.” [Translated title.] In
Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 24 (2005): 330–344.
3357. GUSEJNOVA, Dina. “Concepts of Culture and
Technology in Germany, 1916–1933: Ernst Cassirer
and Oswald Spengler.” J. Eur. Stud. 36 (2006): 5–30.
3358. HOMMELS, Anique. Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy
in Urban Socio-technical Change. Inside
Technology. (viii + 281 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 2005. ISBN: 026208340X.
Uses the concepts from science and technology studies to
inform the study of cities.
3359. HULL, James P. “Raising Standards: Public
Works and Industrial Practice in Interwar Ontario.”
Sci. Canadensis 25 (2001): 7–30.
3360. JAKLE, John A. City Lights: Illuminating the
American Night. Landscapes of the Night. (x + 292
pp.; ill.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press,
2001. ISBN: 080186593X.
3361. LUSA MONFORTE, Guillermo. (Ed.) El Conflicto
con la Diputación (1915). La Plena Incorporación
de la Escuela al Estado (1917). ISSN:1137-
0238. Documentos de la Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales
de Barcelona, 13. (191 pp.; ill.) Barcelona:
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de
Barcelona, 2003.
3362. MAJUMDAR, Sisir K. “Einstein, Molecule and
Medicine.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 41 (2006): 111–120.
On Einstein’s contribution to laser technology.
3363. MARCUS, Alan I. (Ed.) Engineering in a
Land-Grant Context: The Past, Present, and Future
of an Idea. (198 pp.; bibl.; index.) West Lafayette,
Ind.: Purdue Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN: 1557533601.
Contents (from WorldCat): David HARMON, “Collegiate
Conflict: Internal Dissension at Land-Grant Colleges and the
370. Twentieth century 153
Failure to Establish Engineering Experiment Stations.” Alan
I. MARCUS, Erik LOKENSGARD, “Creation of the Modern
Land-Grant University: Chemical Engineering, Agricultural
By-Products and the Reconceptualization of Iowa State College,
1920–1940.” Terry REYNOLDS, “Chemical Engineering,
Accreditation, and the Land-Grant Colleges.” Deborah
G. DOUGLAS, “The End of ‘Try-and-Fly’: The Origins and
Evolution of American Aeronautical Engineering Education
through World War II.” Amy Sue BIX, “Engineering National
Defense: Technical Education at Land-Grant Institutions during
World War II.” Howard P. SEGAL, “Reengineering the
Land-Grant University: The Kellogg Commission in Historical
Context.” Bruce SEELY, “Reinventing the Wheel: The
Continuous Development of Engineering Education in the
Twentieth Century.”
3364. MARSHALL, Alan. Du plomb à la lumière : La
lumitype-photon et la naissance des industries graphiques
modernes. (xiii + 427 pp.; ill.) Paris: Maison
des sciences de l’homme, 2003. ISBN: 2735110095.
3365. MAYER, Mark G. “Power for the People? The
John H. Kerr Dam and Federal Hydropower Policy
in the Southeast.” Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/04 (2004):
1510.
Dissertation at the University of South Carolina, 2004. Adviser:
Maney, Patrick. UMI pub. no. 3130468. 253 pp.
3366. MCLEAN, Donald F. Restoring Baird’s Image.
IEE History of Technology Series, 27. (xx + 295 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) London: Institution of Electrical
Engineers, 2000. ISBN: 0852967950.
On the early 20th-century British television pioneer.
3367. MIYAMATO Masaki. “An Outline of the Development
of PVC Technology in Japan (Part 1).”
[Translated title.] In Japanese. Kagakushi Ken.
(Chem.) 31 (2004): 279–296.
See also: MIYAMATO Masaki, “An Outline of the Development
of PVC Technology in Japan (Part 2)” Kagakushi Ken.
(Chem.) 32 (2005): 20–31.
3368. MONAGHAN, David W. Canada’s “New Main
Street”: The Trans-Canada Highway as Idea and Reality,
1912–1956. Transformation Series/Collection
Transformation, 11. (ix + 90 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.;
index.) Ottawa: Canada Science and Technology
Museum, 2002. ISBN: 0660187205.
Reviews: [ref. R632]
3369. MORRIS, Peter. Essay review. Ambix 53
(2006): 83–86.
Essay review of DIENEL [ref. 2597]; TRAVIS [ref. 2918];
LORENTZ and ERKER [ref. 2911]; Hans-Liudger DIENEL,
Linde (2004).
3370. MUDD, Gevin M. “The Legacy of Early Uranium
Efforts in Australia, 1906–1945: From Radium
Hill to the Atomic Bomb and Today.” Hist. Rec. Aust.
Sci. 16 (2005): 169–198.
Concerns the uranium industry, uranium exploration, and
radioactive waste problems.
3371. ROOIJ, Arjan van. “Engineering Contractors
in the Chemical Industry: The Development of Ammonia
Processes, 1910–1940.” Hist. & Tech. 21
(2005): 345–366.
3372. SEGAL, Howard P. Recasting the Machine
Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries. (xv + 244
pp.; ill.; map; bibl.; index.) Amherst: Univ. of
Massachusetts Press, 2005. ISBN: 1558494812.
3373. SLATON, Amy. Reinforced Concrete and the
Modernization of American Building, 1900–1930.