Thomas P. Hughes

Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923^[1] – February 3, 2014^[2]) was an American historian of technology. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania^[3] and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.^[4]

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1953.

Hughes, along with John B. Rae, Carl W. Condit, and Melvin Kranzberg, were responsible for the establishment of the Society for the History of Technology and he was a recipient of its highest honor, the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1985.^[5]

He contributed to the concepts of technological momentum, technological determinism, large technical systems, social construction of technology, and introduced systems theory into the history of technology.

His book American Genesis was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2003.^[6]

Main works

Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-8018-4614-5.^[7]
Edited with Wiebe E. Bijker and Trevor J. Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press, 1987.
Edited with 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.
Edited with Agatha C. Hughes. Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. New York: 1990.
Rescuing Prometheus. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.
Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN 0-226-35933-6

References

^ "Thomas Hughes". genealogybank. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^ "Hughes, Thomas". The Daily Progress. 15 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
^ "People | History and Sociology of Science".
^ "Thomas Parke Hughes".
^ "SHOT da Vinci Medal". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
^ Barnes, Barry (May 1984). "Review: Networks of Power by Thomas P. Hughes". Social Studies of Science. 14 (2): 309–314. doi:10.1177/030631284014002012. JSTOR 284661. S2CID 145291207.

External links

Joel Moses, "Thomas P. Hughes, 1923–2014," National Academies Memorial Tributes: Volume 20 (2016)
University of Pennsylvania Faculty Page
Economic Principals
G. Pascal Zachary, "Remembering Thomas P. Hughes," in New Atlantis 42 (Spring 2014): 103–108
Oral history interview with Thomas P. Hughes Charles Babbage Institute 1980
Arthur Molella, "Hughes on Technology," Minerva 43 no. 1 (March 2005): 113-117
W. Bernard Carlson, "From Order to Messy Complexity: Thoughts on the Intellectual Journey of Thomas Parke Hughes," Technology and Culture 55 no. 4, October (2014): 945-952. DOI:10.1353/tech.2014.0108
Thomas Parke Hughes papers (Accession 2259), Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE
For a critical application of Thomas Hughes, see: Shamir, Ronen (2013). Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22869

v t e Leonardo da Vinci Medal
1962–1982	1962: Robert James Forbes 1963: Abbott Payson Usher 1964: Lynn Townsend White Jr. 1965: Maurice Daumas 1966: Cyril Stanley Smith 1967: Melvin Kranzberg 1968: Joseph Needham 1969: Lewis Mumford 1970: Bertrand Gille 1971: A. G. Drachmann 1972: Ladislao Reti 1973: Carl W. Condit 1974: Bern Dibner 1975: Friedrich Klemm 1976: Derek J. de Solla Price 1977: Eugene S. Ferguson 1978: Torsten Althin 1979: John U. Nef 1980: John Bell Rae 1981: Donald S. L. Cardwell 1982 not awarded
1983–1999	1983: Louis C. Hunter 1984: Brooke Hindle 1985: Thomas P. Hughes 1986: Hugh G. J. Aitken 1987: Robert P. Multhauf 1988: Sidney M. Edelstein 1989: R. Angus Buchanan 1990: Edwin T. Layton, Jr. 1991: Carroll W. Pursell 1992: Otto Mayr 1993: W. David Lewis 1994: Merritt Roe Smith 1995: Bruce Sinclair 1996: Nathan Rosenberg 1997: Ruth Schwartz Cowan 1998: Walter G. Vincenti 1999 not awarded
2000-	2000: Silvio A. Bedini 2001: Robert C. Post 2002: Leo Marx 2003: Bart Hacker 2004: David Landes 2005: David E. Nye 2006: Eric H. Robinson 2007: David A. Hounshell 2008: Joel A. Tarr 2009: Susan J. Douglas 2010: Svante Lindqvist 2011: John M. Staudenmaier 2012: Wiebe Bijker 2013: Rosalind Williams 2014: Pamela O. Long 2015: Johan Schot 2016: Ronald R. Kline 2017: Arnold Pacey 2018: Joy Parr 2019: Francesca Bray 2020: Maria Paula Diogo and Arthur P. Molella 2021: Suzanne Moon 2022: Donald MacKenzie

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