Publications

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Books (public history)

  • (With Matthew Hild) Georgia Tech: A History(Arcadia, 2017)
  • (With Joseph Gabriel) Electronics: Life: Story of an Invention. Greenwood Press, 2005 and Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007.
  • Sound Recording: Life Story of an Invention. Greenwood Press, 2004 and Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2006.
  • Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of Sound Recording in America. Rutgers University Press, 2000. [Note: this book has been well-received by both academic and popular readers]

Articles (public history-oriented only)

  • “Liberty Enlightening the World: The Electrical History of the Statue of Liberty,” Today’s Engineer, Nov. 2002. (also at http://www.todaysengineer.org/Nov02/heritage.htm)
  • “Benjamin Franklin’s Electric Motor,” Today’s Engineer, Aug-Sept. 2002. (also at http://www.todaysengineer.org/Aug02/heritage.htm)
  • “Guillaume Duchenne; Pioneer of Electrotherapy and Neuropathology,” Today’s Engineer, September 2002. (also at http://www.todaysengineer.org/Sept02/heritage.htm)
  • “In His Own Words: John R. Pierce,” Proceedings of the IEEE, August 2002.
  • “Electronic Mail,” “Office Technology,” and “Fax Machine,” in The Dictionary of American History (Gale Publications, 2002).
  • “The Memory of John Logie Baird,” Today’s Engineer, May-June 2002.
  • “The Industrial Revolution in Tattooing,” American Heritage of Invention and Technology Magazine, January 2002.
  • “This Week in Electrical History,” in The Institute (IEEE publication), a monthly column, all monthly installments from 2001-2002.
  • “Electric Rock and Roll,” Today’s Engineer, Oct.-Nov. 2001.
  • “Jack Morton of Bell Labs,” Today’s Engineer, Sept.-Oct. 2001.
  • “Tattoos: Electrical Engineers Played a Role in Giving Them — And Even Taking Them Away,” Today’s Engineer, July-Aug. 2001.
  • “Computers in Everything: From the Pushbutton Factory to the Y2K Bug,” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (December 1999).
  • “Viewing Television’s History,” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (July 1999).
  • “What Difference Did Semiconductors and Microelectronics Make?” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (June 1999)
  • “Consumer Electronics: the Last Fifteen Years,” IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine 15 3 (May 1999): 28-30.
  • “Radio Broadcasting in the Electrical Century,” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (May 1999).
  • “A Snapshot of Telephony at the Turn of the Century,” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (April 1999).
  • “Powering the Electrical Century,” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (March 1999).
  • “Richard Howland Ranger, 1889-1962,” The Institute February 1999.
  • “A Salute To Jim Brittain,” Proceedings of the IEEE 87 (January 1999): 205 -205.
  • “Edwin H. Armstrong and the History of FM Radio: A Contextual Approach,” Proceedings of the Radio Club of America, November 1990.

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