The Abbot Payson Usher Memorial Prize, established in 1961 and named for Dr Abbott Payson Usher, is an award given annually by Society for the History of Technology for the best scholarly work on the history of technology published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society.[1]
Recipients include some of the most highly regarded historians of technology, including such pioneering figures as Robert S. Woodbury, Silvio Bedini, Robert Multhauf, Eugene S. Ferguson, Cyril Stanley Smith and others. The prize also indicates shifts in the field's emphasis over more than five decades from early technical studies of individual machines; the subsequent prominence of science, systems, and industrial research in the work of Thomas P. Hughes, George Wise, Bruce Seely and others; the rise of politics, gender and colonialism; and the recent shift to cultural histories of technology by Edward Jones-Imhotep and others. Pamela O. Long's Usher-prize-winning "Openness of Knowledge" was one basis for her awards as Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur Fellow.
2023: Leor Halevi, "What Hath Allah Wrought? The Global Invention of Prescriptive Machines for the Islamic Consumer, 1975–2010", Technology and Culture 62:3 (2021): 741-779
2022: Robert MacDougall, "Sympathetic Physics: The Keely Motor and The Laws of Thermodynamics in Nineteenth Century Culture", Technology and Culture 60:2 (2019): 438-46
2021: Robyn d’Avignon, "Spirited Geobodies: Producing Subterranean Property in Nineteenth-Century Bambuk, West Africa", Technology and Culture 61:2 Supplement (2020), S20-S48
2020: Daniel Williford, "Seismic Politics: Risk and Reconstruction after the 1960 Earthquake in Agadir, Morocco", Technology and Culture 58:4 (October 2017): 982–1016
2019: Eden Medina, "Forensic Identification in the Aftermath of Human Rights Crimes in Chile: A Decentered Computer History", Technology and Culture 59:4 (Supplement, 2018): S100–S133
2018: Whitney Laemmli, "A Case in Pointe: Romance and Regimentation at the New York City Ballet", Technology and Culture 56 (January 2015): 1-27
2017: Edward Jones-Imhotep, "Malleability and Machines: Glenn Gould and the Technological Self", Technology and Culture 57 (April 2016): 287-321
2016: Edward J. Gillin, "Prophets of Progress: authority in the scientific projections and religious realisations of the Great Eastern steamship", Technology and Culture 56 (October 2015): 928-956
2015:Jung Lee, "Invention without Science: 'Korean Edisons' and the Changing Understanding of Technology in Colonial Korea", Technology and Culture 54 (October 2013): 782-814
2014: Chris Evans and Alun Withey, "An Enlightenment in Steel? Innovation in the Steel Trades of Eighteenth-Century Britain", Technology and Culture 53 (July 2012): 533-560
2013: Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Moveable Typewriter: How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism", Technology and Culture 53 (October 2012): 777-814
2012: Tiina Männistö-Funk, "The Crossroads of Technology and Tradition: Vernacular Bicycles in Rural Finland, 1880-1910", Technology and Culture 52 (October 2011): 733-756
2011: David Biggs, "Breaking from the Colonial Mold: Water Engineering and the Failure of Nation-Building in the Plain of Reeds, Vietnam", Technology and Culture 49 (July 2008): 599-623
2010: Peter Norton, "Street Rivals: Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age", Technology and Culture 48 (April 2007): 331-359
2009: Crosbie Smith and Anne Scott, "'Trust in Providence': Building Confidence into the Cunard Line of Steamers", Technology and Culture 48 (July 2007): 471-96
2008: Eric Schatzberg, "Technik Comes to America: Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930", Technology and Culture 47 (2006): 486-512 JSTOR 40061169
2007:Carlo Belfanti, "Guilds, Patents, and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge: Northern Italy during the Early Modern Age", Technology and Culture 45 (2004): 569-89
2006:Lissa Roberts, "An Arcadian Apparatus: The Introduction of the Steam Engine into the Dutch Landscape", Technology and Culture 45 (2004): 251-76
2005:William Storey, "Guns, Race, and Skill in Nineteenth-Century South Africa", Technology and Culture 45 (2004): 687-711
2004:Kenneth Lipartito, "Picturephone and the Information Age: The Social Meaning of Failure", Technology and Culture 44 (2003): 50-81
2003:Amy Slaton, "'As Near as Practicable': Precision, Ambiguity, and the Social Features of Industrial Quality Control", Technology and Culture 42 (2001): 51-80
2002:Wiebe E. Bijker and Karin Bijsterveld, "Walking through Plans: Technology, Democracy and Gender Identity", Technology and Culture 41 (2000): 485-515
2001:John K. Brown, "Design Plans, Working Drawings, National Styles: Engineering Practice in Great Britain and the United States, 1775-1945", Technology and Culture 41 (2000): 195-238
2000:Matthew W. Roth, "Mulholland Highway and the Engineering Culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s", Technology and Culture 40 (1999): 545-575
1999:Joy Parr, "What Makes Washday Less Blue? Gender, Choice, Nation, and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada", Technology and Culture 38 (1997): 153-186
1998:David Mindell, "'The Clangor of That Blacksmith's Fray': Technology, War, and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor", Technology and Culture 36 (1995): 242-70 JSTOR 3106372
1997:Eric Schatzberg, "Ideology and Technical Choice: The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States, 1920-1945", Technology and Culture 35 (1994): 34-69 JSTOR 3106748
1996:Gabrielle Hecht, "Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France", Technology and Culture 35 (1994): 657-85 JSTOR 3106502
1995:Jameson W. Doig and David P. Billington, "Ammann's First Bridge: A Study in Engineering, Politics, and Entrepreneurial Behavior", Technology and Culture 35 (1994): 537-70 JSTOR 3106258
1994:John Law, "The Olympus 320 Engine: A Case Study in Design, Development, and Organizational Control", Technology and Culture 33 (1992): 409-40 JSTOR 3106632
1993:Barton Hacker, "An Annotated Index to Volumes 1-25", Technology and Culture (1991) JSTOR i356102; and Pamela O. Long, "The Openness of Knowledge: An Ideal and Its Context in 16th-Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy", Technology and Culture 32 (1991): 318-55 JSTOR 3105713
1992:Bryan Pfaffenberger, "The Harsh Facts of Hydraulics: Technology and Society in Sri Lanka's Colonization Schemes", Technology and Culture 31 (1990): 361-97 JSTOR 3106052
1991: Robert Gordon, "Who Turned the Mechanical Ideal into Mechanical Reality?" Technology and Culture 29 (1988): 744-78 JSTOR 3105044
1990: Laurence F. Gross, "Wool Carding: A Study of Skills and Technology", Technology and Culture 28 (1987): 804-27 JSTOR 3105183
1989: Larry Owens, "Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer: The Text and Context of an Early Computer", Technology and Culture 27 (1986): 63-95 JSTOR 3104945
1988: Judith A. McGaw, "Accounting for Innovation: Technological Change and Business Practice in the Berkshire County Paper Industry", Technology and Culture 26 (1985): 703-25 JSTOR 3105616
1987: Bruce E. Seely, "The Scientific Mystique in Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1918-1940", Technology and Culture 25 (1984): 798-831 JSTOR 3104623
1986: Donald MacKenzie, "Marx and the Machine", Technology and Culture 25 (1984): 473-502 JSTOR 3104202
1985: Eda Fowlks Kranakis, "The French Connection: Giffard's Injector and the Nature of Heat", Technology and Culture 23 (1982): 3-38 JSTOR 3104441
1984: Walter G. Vincenti, "Control-Volume Analysis: A Difference in Thinking between Engineering and Physics", Technology and Culture 23 (1982): 145-74 JSTOR 3104129
1983: George Wise, "A New Role for Professional Scientists in Industry: Industrial Research at General Electric, 1900-1916", Technology and Culture (1980): 408-29 JSTOR 3103155
1982: Harold Dorn, "Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Détente", Technology and Culture 20 (1979): 322-47 JSTOR 3103869
1981: Thomas P. Hughes, "The Electrification of America: The System Builders", Technology and Culture 20 (1979): 124-61 JSTOR 3103115
1974: Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey for their bibliography of the philosophy of technology, first published as a supplement to Technology and Culture 14 (1973) and then separately by the University of Chicago Press.
1974: R. L. Hills and A. J. Pacey "The Measurement of Power in Early Steam-Driven Textile Mills", Technology and Culture 13 (1972): 25–43 JSTOR 3102654
1972: Cyril Stanley Smith, "Art, Technology and Science: Notes on their Historical Interaction", Technology and Culture 11 (1970): 493-549 JSTOR 3102690
1969: Eugene S. Ferguson, "Bibliography of the History of Technology", an expansion of a series of articles originally published in Technology and Culture (1962-1965) and constituting no. 5 in the Monograph Series of the History of Technology, published jointly by SHOT and MIT Press
1968: Carl W. Condit, "The First Reinforced-Concrete Skyscraper: The Ingalls Building in Cincinnati and Its Place in Structural History", Technology and Culture 9 (1968): 1-33 JSTOR 3102041
1965: Robert P. Multhauf, "Sal Ammoniac: A Case History in Industrialization", Technology and Culture 6 (1965): 569-86 JSTOR 3101750
1962: Silvio A. Bedini, "The Compartmented Cylindrical Clepsydra", Technology and Culture 3 (1962): 115-41 JSTOR 3101437
1961: Robert S. Woodbury, "The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts", Technology and Culture 1 (1960): 235-53 JSTOR 3101392
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Abbot Payson Usher Prize news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2014 Learn how and when to remove this message The Abbot Payson Usher Memorial Prize established in 1961 and named for Dr Abbott Payson Usher is an award given annually by Society for the History of Technology for the best scholarly work on the history of technology published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society 1 Recipients include some of the most highly regarded historians of technology including such pioneering figures as Robert S Woodbury Silvio Bedini Robert Multhauf Eugene S Ferguson Cyril Stanley Smith and others The prize also indicates shifts in the field s emphasis over more than five decades from early technical studies of individual machines the subsequent prominence of science systems and industrial research in the work of Thomas P Hughes George Wise Bruce Seely and others the rise of politics gender and colonialism and the recent shift to cultural histories of technology by Edward Jones Imhotep and others Pamela O Long s Usher prize winning Openness of Knowledge was one basis for her awards as Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur Fellow Contents 1 Past recipients 2 See also 3 References 4 External linksPast recipients editSource Abbot Payson Usher Memorial Prize 2023 Leor Halevi What Hath Allah Wrought The Global Invention of Prescriptive Machines for the Islamic Consumer 1975 2010 Technology and Culture 62 3 2021 741 779 2022 Robert MacDougall Sympathetic Physics The Keely Motor and The Laws of Thermodynamics in Nineteenth Century Culture Technology and Culture 60 2 2019 438 46 2021 Robyn d Avignon Spirited Geobodies Producing Subterranean Property in Nineteenth Century Bambuk West Africa Technology and Culture 61 2 Supplement 2020 S20 S48 2020 Daniel Williford Seismic Politics Risk and Reconstruction after the 1960 Earthquake in Agadir Morocco Technology and Culture 58 4 October 2017 982 1016 2019 Eden Medina Forensic Identification in the Aftermath of Human Rights Crimes in Chile A Decentered Computer History Technology and Culture 59 4 Supplement 2018 S100 S133 2018 Whitney Laemmli A Case in Pointe Romance and Regimentation at the New York City Ballet Technology and Culture 56 January 2015 1 27 2017 Edward Jones Imhotep Malleability and Machines Glenn Gould and the Technological Self Technology and Culture 57 April 2016 287 321 2016 Edward J Gillin Prophets of Progress authority in the scientific projections and religious realisations of the Great Eastern steamship Technology and Culture 56 October 2015 928 956 2015 Jung Lee Invention without Science Korean Edisons and the Changing Understanding of Technology in Colonial Korea Technology and Culture 54 October 2013 782 814 2014 Chris Evans and Alun Withey An Enlightenment in Steel Innovation in the Steel Trades of Eighteenth Century Britain Technology and Culture 53 July 2012 533 560 2013 Thomas S Mullaney The Moveable Typewriter How Chinese Typists Developed Predictive Text during the Height of Maoism Technology and Culture 53 October 2012 777 814 2012 Tiina Mannisto Funk The Crossroads of Technology and Tradition Vernacular Bicycles in Rural Finland 1880 1910 Technology and Culture 52 October 2011 733 756 2011 David Biggs Breaking from the Colonial Mold Water Engineering and the Failure of Nation Building in the Plain of Reeds Vietnam Technology and Culture 49 July 2008 599 623 2010 Peter Norton Street Rivals Jaywalking and the Invention of the Motor Age Technology and Culture 48 April 2007 331 359 2009 Crosbie Smith and Anne Scott Trust in Providence Building Confidence into the Cunard Line of Steamers Technology and Culture 48 July 2007 471 96 2008 Eric Schatzberg Technik Comes to America Changing Meanings of Technology before 1930 Technology and Culture 47 2006 486 512 JSTOR 40061169 2007 Carlo Belfanti Guilds Patents and the Circulation of Technical Knowledge Northern Italy during the Early Modern Age Technology and Culture 45 2004 569 89 2006 Lissa Roberts An Arcadian Apparatus The Introduction of the Steam Engine into the Dutch Landscape Technology and Culture 45 2004 251 76 2005 William Storey Guns Race and Skill in Nineteenth Century South Africa Technology and Culture 45 2004 687 711 2004 Kenneth Lipartito Picturephone and the Information Age The Social Meaning of Failure Technology and Culture 44 2003 50 81 2003 Amy Slaton As Near as Practicable Precision Ambiguity and the Social Features of Industrial Quality Control Technology and Culture 42 2001 51 80 2002 Wiebe E Bijker and Karin Bijsterveld Walking through Plans Technology Democracy and Gender Identity Technology and Culture 41 2000 485 515 2001 John K Brown Design Plans Working Drawings National Styles Engineering Practice in Great Britain and the United States 1775 1945 Technology and Culture 41 2000 195 238 2000 Matthew W Roth Mulholland Highway and the Engineering Culture of Los Angeles in the 1920s Technology and Culture 40 1999 545 575 1999 Joy Parr What Makes Washday Less Blue Gender Choice Nation and Technology Choice in Postwar Canada Technology and Culture 38 1997 153 186 1998 David Mindell The Clangor of That Blacksmith s Fray Technology War and Experience Aboard the USS Monitor Technology and Culture 36 1995 242 70 JSTOR 3106372 1997 Eric Schatzberg Ideology and Technical Choice The Decline of the Wooden Airplane in the United States 1920 1945 Technology and Culture 35 1994 34 69 JSTOR 3106748 1996 Gabrielle Hecht Political Designs Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France Technology and Culture 35 1994 657 85 JSTOR 3106502 1995 Jameson W Doig and David P Billington Ammann s First Bridge A Study in Engineering Politics and Entrepreneurial Behavior Technology and Culture 35 1994 537 70 JSTOR 3106258 1994 John Law The Olympus 320 Engine A Case Study in Design Development and Organizational Control Technology and Culture 33 1992 409 40 JSTOR 3106632 1993 Barton Hacker An Annotated Index to Volumes 1 25 Technology and Culture 1991 JSTOR i356102 and Pamela O Long The Openness of Knowledge An Ideal and Its Context in 16th Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy Technology and Culture 32 1991 318 55 JSTOR 3105713 1992 Bryan Pfaffenberger The Harsh Facts of Hydraulics Technology and Society in Sri Lanka s Colonization Schemes Technology and Culture 31 1990 361 97 JSTOR 3106052 1991 Robert Gordon Who Turned the Mechanical Ideal into Mechanical Reality Technology and Culture 29 1988 744 78 JSTOR 3105044 1990 Laurence F Gross Wool Carding A Study of Skills and Technology Technology and Culture 28 1987 804 27 JSTOR 3105183 1989 Larry Owens Vannevar Bush and the Differential Analyzer The Text and Context of an Early Computer Technology and Culture 27 1986 63 95 JSTOR 3104945 1988 Judith A McGaw Accounting for Innovation Technological Change and Business Practice in the Berkshire County Paper Industry Technology and Culture 26 1985 703 25 JSTOR 3105616 1987 Bruce E Seely The Scientific Mystique in Engineering Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads 1918 1940 Technology and Culture 25 1984 798 831 JSTOR 3104623 1986 Donald MacKenzie Marx and the Machine Technology and Culture 25 1984 473 502 JSTOR 3104202 1985 Eda Fowlks Kranakis The French Connection Giffard s Injector and the Nature of Heat Technology and Culture 23 1982 3 38 JSTOR 3104441 1984 Walter G Vincenti Control Volume Analysis A Difference in Thinking between Engineering and Physics Technology and Culture 23 1982 145 74 JSTOR 3104129 1983 George Wise A New Role for Professional Scientists in Industry Industrial Research at General Electric 1900 1916 Technology and Culture 1980 408 29 JSTOR 3103155 1982 Harold Dorn Hugh Lincoln Cooper and the First Detente Technology and Culture 20 1979 322 47 JSTOR 3103869 1981 Thomas P Hughes The Electrification of America The System Builders Technology and Culture 20 1979 124 61 JSTOR 3103115 1974 Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey for their bibliography of the philosophy of technology first published as a supplement to Technology and Culture 14 1973 and then separately by the University of Chicago Press 1974 R L Hills and A J Pacey The Measurement of Power in Early Steam Driven Textile Mills Technology and Culture 13 1972 25 43 JSTOR 3102654 1972 Cyril Stanley Smith Art Technology and Science Notes on their Historical Interaction Technology and Culture 11 1970 493 549 JSTOR 3102690 1969 Eugene S Ferguson Bibliography of the History of Technology an expansion of a series of articles originally published in Technology and Culture 1962 1965 and constituting no 5 in the Monograph Series of the History of Technology published jointly by SHOT and MIT Press 1968 Carl W Condit The First Reinforced Concrete Skyscraper The Ingalls Building in Cincinnati and Its Place in Structural History Technology and Culture 9 1968 1 33 JSTOR 3102041 1965 Robert P Multhauf Sal Ammoniac A Case History in Industrialization Technology and Culture 6 1965 569 86 JSTOR 3101750 1962 Silvio A Bedini The Compartmented Cylindrical Clepsydra Technology and Culture 3 1962 115 41 JSTOR 3101437 1961 Robert S Woodbury The Legend of Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts Technology and Culture 1 1960 235 53 JSTOR 3101392See also editList of history awardsReferences edit https www historyoftechnology org about us awards prizes and grants abbot payson usher prize accessed February 2019 External links editThe Abbot Payson Usher Prize List of Winners Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Abbot Payson Usher Prize amp oldid 1223071450, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
