Abbott Payson Usher (January 13, 1883 – June 18, 1965) was an American economic historian . The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) has awarded the Abbot Payson Usher Prize , named in his honor, annually since 1961.
4-671: The Abbot Payson Usher Memorial Prize , established in 1961 and named for Dr Abbott Payson Usher , is an award given annually by Society for the History of Technology for the best scholarly work on the history of technology published during the preceding three years under the auspices of the Society. Recipients include some of the most highly regarded historians of technology, including such pioneering figures as Robert S. Woodbury , Silvio Bedini , Robert Multhauf , Eugene S. Ferguson , Cyril Stanley Smith and others. The prize also indicates shifts in
8-449: The field's emphasis over more than five decades from early technical studies of individual machines; the subsequent prominence of science, systems, and industrial research in the work of Thomas P. Hughes , George Wise, Bruce Seely and others; the rise of politics, gender and colonialism; and the recent shift to cultural histories of technology by Edward Jones-Imhotep and others. Pamela O. Long 's Usher-prize-winning "Openness of Knowledge"
12-589: Was a slow, collective process with many contributors, not relying on the genius of great inventors. In 1963 Usher was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). His daughter Miriam Usher Chrisman was a noted historian of the German Reformation. He earned his BA and PhD at Harvard University . This biographical article about an American historian of science
16-523: Was one basis for her awards as Guggenheim Fellow and MacArthur Fellow . Source: Abbot Payson Usher Memorial Prize Abbott Payson Usher In the late 1920s Usher, the American historian Lewis Mumford and the Swiss art historian Sigfried Giedion began to systematically investigate the social consequences of technology. In A History of Mechanical Inventions Usher argued that technological innovation
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