Publications

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

Dennis, Maggie

“The Quartz Watch,” with Carlene Stephens. Lemelson Center for Study of Invention and Innovation Web site. 1997.

Web site exploring the global competition to develop the first quartz electronic wristwatches in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Dennis, Maggie

“Time’s New Face: Liquid Crystals in Your Wristwatch,” with Carlene Stephens. Invention and Technology, Spring 2002, p. 27.

Sidebar article on the application of liquid crystal display technology in digital watches in the 1970s.

Deucher, Virginia M.

"Access Denied: Asbestos Contamination as Catalyst and Hindrance to Collection Retrieval and Preservation" Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, Spring 2000 Vol.39 Number 1 pp. 75–84.

Dirks, Katherine

“Airplanes, Balloons, and Cartridge Bags: A Few Fabrics of WWI,” the proceedings of the Textile History Forum, Cooperstown, New York, 2003.

Dirks, Katherine

“The Cow the Milkmaid and the Chemist”, the proceedings of the Ars Textrina conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, England, 2000.

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

"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.

Finn, Bernard

“Context and Controversy.” in Svante Lindqvist (ed.), Museums of Modern Science; Nobel Symposium 112. Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2000, pp. 151–158.

A discussion of how and why exhibitions at technical museums have increasingly had the potential to be controversial.

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.

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