Thomas P. Hughes
Historian, Author
1923 – 2014
Who was Thomas P. Hughes?
Thomas Parke Hughes was an American Historian of Technology. He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1953.
He, 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.
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.
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- Born
- Sep 13, 1923
Richmond - Also known as
- Thomas Hughes
- Thomas Parke Hughes
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Virginia
European History
( - 1953)
- PhD, University of Virginia
- Employment
- University of Pennsylvania
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Died
- Feb 3, 2014
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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