Historians of technology

The list Historians of technology includes Michel Foucault, Doron Swade, Bern Dibner, Leo Marx and Donald Davidson. The list consists of 99 members and 3 sublists.

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- Michael Wallis

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Michel Foucault

French philosopher (1926–1984)

Overview: Paul-Michel Doria Foucault ( FOO-koh, foo-KOH; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.

Date of birth: 15 October 1926

Date of death: 26 June 1984

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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French psychedelic drug advocates 5T

French social commentators 30T

LGBT philosophers 31T
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Doron Swade

South-African–British computer historian and curator

Overview: Doron Swade MBE is a museum curator and author, specialising in the history of computing. He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Curator

Gender: Male

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People associated with the Science Museum, London 20T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

South African historians 41T
3.

Vaclav Smil

Canadian geographer

Overview: Vaclav Smil (born 9 December 1943) is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba ...

Date of birth: 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: Czech

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Male

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Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences alumni 29T

Joseph Levenson Book Prize recipients 21T

Charles University alumni 571T
4.

Leo Marx

American historian, literary critic and educator (1919–2022)

Overview: Leo Marx (November 15, 1919 – March 8, 2022) was an American Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his works in the field ...

Date of birth: 1919

Date of death: 8 March 2022

Age: 102 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Critic

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Men centenarians 263T

Leonardo da Vinci Medal recipients 30T

Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2,948T
5.

Donald Davidson

American sports historian

Overview: Donald C. Davidson is the historian of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the only person to hold such a position on a full-time basis for any motorsports facility in the world. Davidson started his career ...

Nationality: British

Occupation: Auto Racing

Gender: Male

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Historians from Indiana 37T

Writers from Indianapolis, Indiana 96T

Historians of motorsport 15T
6.

Jason Scott Sadofsky

Archivist and historian of technology

Overview: Jason Scott Sadofsky (born September 13, 1970), more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist, historian of technology, filmmaker, performer, and actor. Scott has been known by the online ...

Date of birth: 13 September 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Horace Greeley High School alumni 16T

Creative Commons-licensed authors 44T

Writers from Cambridge, Massachusetts 121T
7.

Thorstein Veblen

American academic

Overview: Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30 July 1857 – 3 August 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, who during his lifetime emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

Date of birth: 30 July 1857

Date of death: 3 August 1929

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Economist

Gender: Male

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American anti-capitalists 93T

American democratic socialists 62T

19th-century American male writers 904T
8.

Jacques Ellul

French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist

Overview: Jacques Ellul (January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor who was a noted Christian anarchist. Ellul was a longtime Professor of History and the ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1912

Date of death: 19 May 1994

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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Philosophers of pessimism 19T

French anti-capitalists 22T

20th-century French non-fiction writers 418T
9.

Ivan Illich

Austrian philosopher and anarchist social critic

Overview: Ivan Dominic Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was a Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's in ...

Date of birth: 4 September 1926

Date of death: 2 December 2002

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Anarchist writers 51T

20th-century Austrian philosophers 41T

Austrian Christian socialists 1T
10.

Margaret O'Mara

American historian

Overview: Margaret O'Mara (born Margaret Pugh; November 15, 1970) is an American historian and professor at the University of Washington.

Date of birth: 15 November 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

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21st-century American women writers 7,407T

21st-century American historians 2,436T

American women historians 1,351T
11.

Walter A. McDougall

American historian

Overview: Walter Allen McDougall (born December 3, 1946 in Washington, D.C.) is an American historian, currently a professor of history and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University ...

Date of birth: 1946

Age: 79

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

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Foreign Policy Research Institute 29T

Historians from Pennsylvania 164T

Earhart Foundation Fellows 34T
12.

Louis C. Hunter

American historian

Overview: Louis C. Hunter (1898 – 1984) was a professor of economic history at American University. His most famous work, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, an Economic and Technological History, was published in ...

Date of birth: 1898

Date of death: 1984

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

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American economic historians 12T

20th-century American economists 664T

Leonardo da Vinci Medal recipients 30T
13.

A. Hunter Dupree

Historian and United States Navy officer

Overview: Anderson Hunter Dupree (29 January 1921 – 30 November 2019) was an American historian and one of the pioneer historians of the history of science and technology in the United States. He died in November ...

Date of birth: 29 January 1921

Date of death: 30 November 2019

Age: 98 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

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2019 deaths 9,204T

People from Hillsboro, Texas 44T

21st-century American historians 1,758T
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Horst Zuse

German software engineer

Overview: Horst Zuse (born November 17, 1945) is a German computer scientist.

Date of birth: 17 November 1945

Age: 79

Nationality: German

Occupation: Historian

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Konrad Zuse 5T

People from Oberallgäu 41T

German computer scientists 200T
15.

Bern Dibner

American historian

Overview: Bern Dibner (18August 1897 – 6January 1988) was an electrical engineer, industrialist, and historian of science and technology. He originated two major US library collections in the history of science ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1897

Date of death: 6 January 1988

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Ukrainian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Historians from Connecticut 118T

American historians of science 81T

20th-century American male writers 8,854T
16.

Don Ihde

American philosopher

Overview: Don Ihde (January 14, 1934 – January 17, 2024) was an American philosopher of science and technology. In 1979 he wrote what is often identified as the first North American work on philosophy of technology ...

Date of birth: 1934

Date of death: 17 January 2024

Age: 89 (age at death)

Occupation: Philosopher

Gender: Male

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T

21st-century American non-fiction writers 3,037T
17.

Vilém Flusser

Brazilian philosopher

Overview: Vilém Flusser (May 12, 1920 – November 27, 1991) was a Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. He lived for a long period in São Paulo (where he became a Brazilian citizen) and later in France ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1920

Date of death: 27 November 1991

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Czech

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Brazil 15T

20th-century Czech philosophers 10T

Jews who emigrated to escape Nazism 126T
18.

Peter H. Salus

American linguist and computer historian/advocate

Overview: Peter Henry Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has conducted research in germanistics, language acquisition ...

Nationality: American

Occupation: Scientist

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Writers from Vienna 409T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T

Austrian emigrants to the United States 490T
19.

Melvin Kranzberg

American historian

Overview: Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, 1917 – December 6, 1995) was an American historian, and professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the ...

Date of birth: 22 November 1917

Date of death: 6 December 1995

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Leonardo da Vinci Medal recipients 30T

Writers from St. Louis, Missouri 222T

20th-century American historians 1,828T
20.

Lewis Mumford

American writer

Overview: Lewis Mumford KBE (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban arc ...

Date of birth: 19 October 1895

Date of death: 26 January 1990

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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American architecture critics 18T

Historians from New York (state) 493T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T