Dr. Thomas Parke Hughes, 1999 September 22

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Scope and Contents

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

Dates

1999 September 22

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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