Dr. Thomas Parke Hughes describes the essential technical core, managerial, social, economic, and cultural characteristics of the British and 2nd Industrial Revolutions on September 22, 1999
Dr. Thomas Parke Hughes describes the essential technical core, managerial, social, economic, and cultural characteristics of the British and 2nd Industrial Revolutions on September 22, 1999
Date
1999-09-22
Spatial Coverage
University of Utah, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Subject
University of Utah--Alumni; Science, Technology; Technology, Industry; Engineering; Lectures; Libraries--Special collections--Endowments; Industrial revolution; Industrial revolution--England; Great Britain--History
Description
The 8th Annual Gould Lecture is opened by Sarah Michalak who welcomes the audience and honors the members of the Gould family. President Machen introduces the speaker, Thomas Parke Hughes, who is a Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and Stanford University. Hughes then gives his speech titled "Industrial Revolution." He describes the essential technical core, managerial, social, economic, and cultural characteristics of the British and 2nd Industrial Revolution. Then, he compares these industrial revolutions to today's "Information Revolution." Speakers: Thomas Parke Hughes; introduction by Sarah Michalak (Director of the Library), J. Bernard Machen (President of the University of Utah
Collection Number and Name
A0214 William R. and Erlyn Gould Distinguished Lecture on Technology and the Quality of Life Series video recordings
Collection Name
Gould Lecture Series
Holding Institution
Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
