I have consistently sought out opportunities to make my academic research accessible to the public. That effort has included many opportunities to serve as a content matter expert on the history of sound recording technology. I have been quoted in publications such as Scientific American, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Post, Forbes (December 1999), Liberation (Paris), Wall Street Journal, ABCnews.com, Rutgers Focus, etc. My research contributed to a documentary for National Inventor’s Hall of Fame inductee Dr. Semi Joseph Begun, and was featured on the series Lost and Found Sound on National Public Radio. Most recently, I was interviewed for a segment for the PBS series, “The History Detectives” (Season 3, ep. 6). Most recently, I was interviewed for a Sirius Radio program on the revival of interest in the early-2000s recording format called the “Minidisc.”
I received permission to evaluate the Cochran Mill site near Palmetto, Georgia, which was then owned by Fulton County. In addition to updating and improving an earlier site evaluation, I published my findings in the journal Early Georgia. This project received financial support from the Georgia Tech Graduate Student Government. The article was published as The Engineer and the Millwright: Traditional and Modern Technologies at Cochran’s Mill Park, Fulton County, Georgia,” Early Georgia (December 1993).
I was an early contributor to author Bruce Sterling’s Dead Media Project.
