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Name
  
Merritt Smith


Role
  
Historian


Education
  
Pennsylvania State University (1971), Pennsylvania State University (1965), Georgetown University (1963)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Does Technology Drive Hist, Inventing America: a History of, Military Enterprise and Tech, Inventing America - Second E, Harpers Ferry Armory a

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Merritt Roe Smith (1940) is an American historian. He is the Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Merritt roe smith


Life

Smith graduated from Georgetown University, and Pennsylvania State University with a Ph.D. His research focuses on the history of technological innovation and social change. He is currently writing a monograph on technology and the American Civil War. Smith is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is past president of the Society for the History of Technology.

Awards

  • Nominated for the 1977 Pulitzer Prize in History.
  • Leonardo da Vinci Medal, from Society for the History of Technology in 1994.
  • 1977 Frederick Jackson Turner Award.

    • Works

  • "Technology, Industrialization, and the Idea of Progress in America"
  • "Industry, Technology, and the 'Labor Question' in 19th-Century America"
  • Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology. Cornell University Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-8014-9181-8.  (reprint 1980)
  • Merritt Roe Smith, ed. (1985). Military Enterprise and Technological Change. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19239-2. 
  • Merritt Roe Smith, Leo Marx, eds. (1994). Does Technology Drive History?. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-69167-3. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • Major Problems in the History of American Technology (1998), co-edited with Gregory Clancey
  • Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar (2003). Inventing America. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-16814-3. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link) (reprint 2006)

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