The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology Tapa dura - 2014

Hugh Richard Slotten is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. During the 2010/2011 academic year, he was the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of three major books in the history of technology and science in the United States: Radio's Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2009); Radio and Television Regulation: Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000); and Patronage, Practice, and the Culture of American Science: Alexander Dallas Bache and the U.S. Coast Survey (Cambridge University Press, 1994). He has published research articles in the Journal of American History; Isis: The International Journal of the History of Science Society; Technology and Culture: the Journal of the International Society for the History of Technology; the History of Education Quarterly; Media History; and the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television.