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Thomas P. Hughes

Thomas Parke Hughes (13. september 1923[1] - 3. februar 2014[2]) var en amerikansk teknologihistoriker. Han var professor emeritus i historie ved University of Pennsylvania og gæsteprofessor ved MIT og Stanford University.[3]

Han bidrog til emner som teknologisk momentum, teknologisk determinisme, store tekniske systemer og social opbygning af teknologi.

Hughes var medlem af Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien (IVA) og American Academy of Arts and Sciences. I 1985 modtog han desuden da Vinci-medaljen fra The Society of History of Technology.[4]

  • Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-8018-4614-5.
  • Med Wiebe E. Bijker og Trevor J. Pinch. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1987.
  • Med Renate Mayntz. The Development of Large Technical Systems. Frankfurt am Main: Boulder, CO: Campus Verlag; Westview Press, 1988.
  • American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. New York, NY: Viking, 1989. Which was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
  • Med Agatha C. Hughes. Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. New York: 1990.
  • Rescuing Prometheus. 1. udgave New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
  1. ^ "Thomas Hughes". genealogybank. Hentet 16. februar 2014.
  2. ^ "Hughes, Thomas". The Daily Progress. 15. februar 2014. Hentet 16. februar 2014.
  3. ^ "Thomas Parke Hughes". Arkiveret fra originalen 18. april 2010. Hentet 23. december 2009.
  4. ^ "SHOT da Vinci Medal". Arkiveret fra originalen 18. juli 2011. Hentet 23. december 2009.
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