User:Eiju Matsumoto

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EIJU MATSUMOTO 2-642-22, Nakazato, Kiyose-shi, Tokyo 204-0003, Japan

EDUCATION, ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION Ph.D. in Engineering,TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY, Machida-shi. Tokyo, Credits in the History of Technology, under graduate & post graduate course 1994, University of Maryland, Courage Park in MA Curator in Museology, 1993, TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY, Machida-shi, Tokyo B.E. in Electronics,SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Director, The Society of Historical Metrology, Japan,：2002 to present Responsibility, Yokogawa Electric Museum of Measurement Project；1989 to 2003 Research Engineer, Yokogawa Electric Process Control Instruments, to 1989

IEEE ACTIVITIES IEEE; Secretary of JCHC (Japan Council Historical Committee) 2004 to 2012 IEEE; Membership from 1982 No.04892477 (LM) IEEE Publication; “Edward Weston Made His Mark on the History of Instrumentation”

     Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine, 6-2,46/50, (2003)

ACADEMIC AND RELATED EXPERIENCE Lecturer

• Tokyo Institute of Technology, History of Electrical Electronics Instr. 2002 to 2005
• Gakusyuin University: Curator’s course History of Natural Science 1995 to 2005

Research

• Visiting Scholar at NMAH Smithsonian Institution, Museology and History of Technology, 1994 & 2004
• Research of History of Technology and Measuring Instruments 1989 to present

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

• ISA,*ICOHTEC,*SHOT,* IEEJ,*SICEJ,*SHMJ,* MSJ

OTHER PUBLICATIONS: History of Technology & Museology

• ”History of Precise Reading applied to Electrical Measuring Instruments---Focusing on the Diagonal Scale, Transaction of IEEJ 117-A, No.7.740/748,(1997)
• “Galvanometers and Invention of Self-Balancing Recorders”, Measurement & Control,

 (London), 26-6, 171/175 (1993)

• ”Exhibit Review, “Chiba Museum of Science and Technology”, T&C 40-1, 102/ (1999),
• ”The Controversy about the National Air and Space Museum at Smithsonian

 Institution”, Journal of the Museological Society of Japan,21-2,35/54,(1996) 

• ”The Exhibits of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution—focused on

 the historical background of NMAH” Journal. MSJ 20-1&2,40/56,(1995)

BOOKS

• “What has Smithsonian been exhibiting”, Tamagawa Univ. Press (2003)

 ( translation of Exhibiting Dilemmas, Smithsonian Press)

• ”World of Measurement”, Tamagawa Univ. press,(2000)
• ”Lessons from Smithsonian”, Tamagawa Univ. Press, (1997)
• ”Birth of Smithsonian Museums”, Yushodo Press(2010)

(translation of The Lost World of James Smithson, Bloomsbury)