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Is your organization, chapter, section, group, division, or society looking for historical perspective? Does it need a plenary, kick-off, keynote, or after-dinner speaker? The ETHW Speakers Bureau provides an expanding list of outstanding historians on the histories of engineering and technology. Please contact them directly to discuss a booking.
[[Is]] your organization, chapter, section, group, division, or society looking for historical perspective? Does it need a plenary, kick-off, keynote, or after-dinner speaker? The ETHW Speakers Bureau provides an expanding list of outstanding historians on the histories of engineering and technology. Please contact them directly to discuss a booking.


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Revision as of 19:06, 12 August 2016

Is your organization, chapter, section, group, division, or society looking for historical perspective? Does it need a plenary, kick-off, keynote, or after-dinner speaker? The ETHW Speakers Bureau provides an expanding list of outstanding historians on the histories of engineering and technology. Please contact them directly to discuss a booking.

Speaker Location(s) Historical subjects and topics Email Phone Webpage
Abbate, Janet Blacksburg, VA Women in computing, the Internet abbate@vt.edu www.sts.vt.edu/faculty/abbate/
Bix, Amy Sue Ames, IA Girls Coming to Tech! Women, Men, and Engineering Education in Historical Perspective; How Lionel Trains, The Easy-Bake Oven, and Engineer Barbie Promoted Technology to American Boys and Girls; United States Engineering Education, From the American Revolution to the iPhone www.history.iastate.edu/faculty-staff/amy-bix/
Brewer, Nathan New Brunswick and Hoboken, NJ Electronic music & technologies
Carlson, Bernard Charlottesville, VA Nikola Tesla, Thinking about Invention, Business of Innovation, Role of Corporate R&D, Technology and the Environment, Revolutionary and evolutionary innovation http://history.virginia.edu/user/63
Cohn, Julie Houston, TX North American electrification, Alternating Currents: Community Responses to Long Distance Power Transmission in North America, Electricity and the City, The Grid: A Very Short History of the World's Largest Interconnected Machine jacohn@uh.edu, cohnconnor@comcast.net
Coopersmith, Jonathan College Station, TX Facsimile, standards j-coopersmith@tamu.edu http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/coopersmith.shtml
Cunningham, Joe New York, NY New York City electrification joec20@earthlink.net
Hochfelder, David Albany, NY Communications technology, Thomas Edison, Telegraphy, Electric Power, Radio dhochfelder@albany.edu www.albany.edu/history/faculty/david_hochfelder.shtml
Israel, Paul New Brunswick, NJ Thomas Edison, birth of industrial innovation pisrael@rutgers.edu http://edison.rutgers.edu/israel.htm
Magoun, Alexander Princeton & Hoboken, NJ Television, RCA, David Sarnoff, Marconi, Early Wireless a.b.magoun@ieee.org 732-981-3414 www.ieee.org/about/history_center/magoun.html
Russell, Andrew Utica, NY Internet, Internet policy, Technology standardization arussell@arussell.org www.arussell.org
Vinsel, Lee Hoboken, NJ Automobiles, Regulation of technology lvinsel@stevens.edu www.leevinsel.com
Wellerstein, Alex Hoboken, NJ Nuclear weapons, inertial confinement technology awellerstein@stevens.edu www.alexwellerstein.com