Thomas Hughes is Mellon Professor of the History and Sociology of Science, Emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Visiting Professor at MIT and Stanford University.  His most recent publications include Rescuing Prometheus (Pantheon, 1998); American Genesis (Penguin 1990), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual (Oxford University Press, 1990), which he edited with Agatha Hughes. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology.

Links:

Biography on the Stanford History and Philosophy of Science Department site.

Review of Rescuing Prometheus by futurist and consultant Terry J. van der Werff.

Review by Mark Williams, Red Herring (January 1999).

Hughes was a guest on "Public Interest," a radio talk show on WAMU, an NPR station in Washington, DC, on Sept. 16, 1998.  Although the interview is not available on-line, a cassette may be ordered from this site.

Thomas P. Hughes, "Industrial Revolutions:  From Canal Systems to Computer Networks," William R. and Erlyn J. Gould Distinguished Lecture at the University of Utah, September 13, 2000.

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