On the Importance of the Visual... and of Mentoring

Hecht pays tribute to international scholar and technology historian Tom Hughes. He conveys that Hughes subtle brilliance, already evident in the classroom, made him magnificent mentor. Hughes found large-scale technology profoundly moving. But his admiration of Edison and other system builders didn...

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Published inTechnology and culture Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 964 - 969
Main Author HECHT, GABRIELLE
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2014
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Architecture
Educational technology
Graduate students
Historians
History of technology
Hughes, Tom
Machine Age
Mentoring
Nuclear reactors
Primary literature
Professional relationships
REMEMBERING THOMAS HUGHES
Rotating generators
Scholars
Technology
United States history
New York
United States > US
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Summary:Hecht pays tribute to international scholar and technology historian Tom Hughes. He conveys that Hughes subtle brilliance, already evident in the classroom, made him magnificent mentor. Hughes found large-scale technology profoundly moving. But his admiration of Edison and other system builders didn't blind him to their foibles.
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ISSN:0040-165X
1097-3729
1097-3729
DOI:10.1353/tech.2014.0126