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Publications

The list of selected staff publications may be searched by keyword or author and can be sorted by year.

Eastman, William

“Documenting the Spirit of Innovation: The Nobel Voices Video History Project.” Kultur und Technik 4 (October 2001).

An analysis of the Lemelson Center's Nobel laureate video history documentation project (2000-2003) which explores laureates' youthful inspirations, views on creativity and innovation, and social visions.

Evans, Sunae Park
"Safely Mounting Figures with Extreme Actions Poses." The Textile Specialty Group Postprints. Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session. 45th Annual Meeting of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vol. 27:177–189.

Evans, Sunae Park
"A Material Disaster: Preservation of the Muppets." The Textile Specialty Group Postprints. Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session. 44th Annual Meeting of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vol. 26:63–73.

Evans, Sunae Park
"Evaluation of the Forms Supporting Iconic Costumes at the National Museum of American History: Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, and the First Ladies." The Textile Specialty Group Postprints, Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session. 38th Annual Meeting of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vol. 20:9–21.

Evans, Sunae Park
"A Visit from Kermit the Frog and Friends: A Collaborative Exhibition between the Jim Henson Legacy and National Museum of American History." The Textile Specialty Group Postprints, Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session. 36 th Annual Meeting of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vol. 18:100–103.

Evans, Sunae Park
"It's Impossible To Be an Eighteenth-Century British Loyalist Without a Waistcoat and Ancillary Items." The Textile Specialty Group Postprints, Papers Delivered at the Textile Subgroup Session. 34th Annual Meeting of American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Vol. 16:32–39.

Evans, Sunae Park
"Tips on Making Soft Supports for Textile and Costume Objects." Technical Exchange, ICOM Ethnographic Conservation Newsletter 16:2–3.

Evans, Sunae Park and Ann, Jones Lu.
"From Feed Bags to Fashion." Textile History 24 (1):91–103.

Evans, Sunae Park, Warner, Patricia Campbell, and Fitzgerald, Thomas K.
"The Process of Westernization: Adoption of Western-Style Dress by Korean Women, 1945-1962." Clothing and Textile Research Journal 11 (3):39–47.

Finn, Bernard

"An Appraisal of the Origins of Franklin's Electrical Theory." Isis 60 (1969), pp. 362–369.

Word analysis is used to speculate on where Franklin got some of his ideas.

Finn, Bernard

"Edison and the Style of Invention." Rassagna: Problemi di architettura dell'ambiente, 13, 46/2 (1991), 44-53.

This is an attempt to analyze Edison's work as a matter of "style."

Finn, Bernard

Artefacts, Vol. 4, Presenting Pictures. Principal editor. London: Science Museum, 2004.

There are essays on the history of technologies for reproducing and transmitting images and also one on museums of printing and photography.

Finn, Bernard

"Franklin as Electrician." IEEE Proceedings 64 (1976), 1270–1273.

In many ways Franklin benefitted from his isolation in America and was free to develop new concepts.

Finn, Bernard

"Growing Pains at the Crossroads of the World: A Submarine Cable Station in the 1870s." IEEE Proceedings 64 (1976), pp. 1287–1292.

How the introducton of new technologies and hardships in a remote Newfoundland station interacted.

Finn, Bernard

"History of Thermoelectricity." in Advances in Electronics and Electronic Physics, 50 (1980), 175–240.

A detailed discussion of experimental and theoretical work, based on Ph.D. dissertation.

Finn, Bernard

"Output of Eighteenth-Century Electrostatic Machines." British Journal for the History of Science 5 (1971), pp. 289–291.

By measuremnt and analysis of published accounts it is possible to determine the voltage levels of these machines and (by measuremnets on Leyden jars) their energy output.

Finn, Bernard

"Telegraph Practice in the 19th Century." Actes du XIIIe Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences (1975).

A look at how practice was determined (or not determined) by the design of the instruments.

Finn, Bernard

A Retrospective Technology Assessment: Submarine Telegraphy. with Vary Coates, et al. San Francisco: San Francisco Press, 1979.

A history of submarine telegraphy with emphasis on the period from the 1850s to the 1950s, including speculation about what people in the 1860s might reasonably have projected the impact of the cables to be.

Finn, Bernard

"The Incandescent Electric Light." in Margaret Latimer and Brooke Hindle (eds.), Bridge to the Future, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 424 (1984), pp. 247–263.

This is an anlaysis of the symbolic use of the incandescent lamp in religious writings, cartoons, art (including Picasso's Guernica).

Finn, Bernard

The History of Electrical Technology: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Press, 1991.

There are over 1500 entries in this international survey, with author and subject indexes.

Finn, Bernard

"Working at Menlo Park." in William S. Pretzer (ed.), Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison and the Menlo Park Experience. Dearborn, MI: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, 1989 (reprint 2002), pp. 32–47.

Edison was supported in his work at Menlo Park by a number of assistants. This is an analysis of their backgrounds and their reasons for coming and leaving.

Finn, Bernard

"The Search for a Vacuum," "Carbon and the Incandescent Lamp," "Who Invented the Incandescent Lamp?," "The Menlo Park Mystique." in Robert Friedel, Paul Israel, Bernard Finn, Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1985.

These are short, pointed essays in a book that provides a definitive account of Edison's invention.

Finn, Bernard

"The Museum of Science and Technology." in Michael S. Shapiro (ed.), The Museum: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989, pp. 59–83.

A discussion of the history of these museums, followed by a bibliography (partially annotated).

Finn, Bernard

“Collectors and Museums,” in Artefacts, Vol 2, Exposing Electronics. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 175–191.

Comments on ways that private collections have affected the development of public institutions.

Finn, Bernard

"Alexander Graham Bell's Experiments with the Variable-Resistance Transmitter." Smithsonian Journal of History 1, no. 4 (1966), pp. 1–16.

Experiments with Bell's instruments (and reproductions of them), combined with remarks made in his notebooks, provide fresh insights into the origins of his invention.

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