CONTRIBUTORS Dr. John D. Anderson, Jr. joined the U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1966 as Chief of the Hypersonic Group. In 1973, he became Chainnan of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, and since 1980 has been a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Maryland. Dr. Anderson works with the Air and Space Museum one day each week as their Special Assistant for Aerodynamics. In addition, in 1993 he was made a full faculty member of the Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science, and in 1995 an affiliate faculty member of the Department of History at the University of Maryland. Dr. Anderson has published seven books and over 120 technical papers. Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Vice President of the AIAA for Education, and from 1997 to the present as the AIAA Vice President for Publications. In 1989, he was given the John Leland Atwood Award jointly by the AIAA and the ASEE "for the lasting influence of his recent contributions to aerospace engineering education." In 1995, he was given the AIAA Pendray Award for aerospace literature. Roger E. Biistein teaches courses in the history of technology, recent America, and aerospace history at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, a suburban campus for juniors, seniors, and graduate students. He is the author of several books on aviation and space flight, including The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise (1996). He served as Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian (1992-93) and was a visiting professor at the Air War College, U.S. Air Force (1995-96). David Bloor is the Director of the Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh. His main research interest is in the sociology of scientific knowledge and its associated philosophical and methodological problems. He is the author of Knowledge and Social Imagery (second edition 1991); Wittgenstein: A Social Theory ofKnowledge (1983); and Wittgenstein: Rules and Institutions (1997). With Barry Barnes and John Henry he has recently published a text book, Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis (1996). Tom D. Crouch is a chainnan of the Aeronautics Division, National Air and Space Museum. A Smithsonian employee since 1974, he has served both the National Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of American History in a variety of curatorial and management posts. Crouch holds a Ph.D. in history from the Ohio 361 362 CONTRIBUTORS State University (1976). He is the author or editor ofa number of books and many articles for both popular and scholarly journals. Crouch is the recipient of a number of awards, including: The History Manuscript Prize of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1977) for the manuscript of A Dream of Wings: Americans and the Airplane, 1875-1905 (New York: w.w. Norton, 1981); Best Book of the Year by the Aviation Space Writers Association for The Eagle Aloft: Two Centuries of the Balloon in America (Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985); and the Christopher Award (1989) "for artistic achievement expressive of the highest values of the human spirit," for The Bishop's Boys: A Life of Wilbur and Orville Wright (New York: w.w. Norton, Inc., 1989). Deborah G. Douglas is the Historian-in-Residence at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Langley Research Center and adjunct assistant professor of history at Old Dominion University. For NASA she is researching and writing a book on the federal contributions to the development of aeronautical engineering. She is also finishing the manuscript for a book on the early history of airports in the United States (through 1940) for the Johns Hopkins University Press. Her publications include u.s. Women in Aviation: 1940-1985 (1990). Robert G. Ferguson is a historian of technology studying the development of American aircraft manufacture. He received his doctorate from the Program in the History of Science & Technology at the University of Minnesota, and his BA from U.C. Berkeley. His dissertation examined the cooperative activities of aircraft manufacturers during World War II, notably the Aircraft War Production Council. He is currently researching the transition from batch to mass production from 1935 to 1945 in American aircraft manufacture. He is an assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Peter Galison is Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University. Author of How Experiments End (Chicago, 1987) and Image and Logic: A Material Culture ofMicrophysics (Chicago, 1997), his principal work explores the boundary between physics and technology. He has co-edited Big Science (Stanford, 1992); The Disunity of Science (Stanford, 1996); Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge, 1998); and The Architecture of Science (MIT, 1999). Galison holds a commercial pilot's license with instrument rating. He is a MacArthur Fellow (1997-2002). Takehiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Tokyo. After his college and graduate education at the University of Tokyo, he finished his Ph.D. thesis on the early history of aeronautical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1991. He has published articles on various aspects of the science-technology relationship, including "Graphical Calculation and Early Aeronautical Engineers," Historia Scientiarum 3(1994), pp. 159-83. Peter L. Jakab is a curator in the Department of Aeronautics, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. He has been with the museum since 1983. CONTRIBUTORS 363 He holds aBA, MA and Ph.D. in American History from Rutgers University, with specialization in the history of technology and American social and cultural history. Prior to NASM, he had stays at the Edison National Historic Site, the New Jersey Historical Commission, and the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project. He has curated numerous exhibitions and lectured frequently on the history of aerospace engineering, the Wright brothers, early aviation, and the history of invention. His publications include Visions of a Flying Machine: the Wright Brothers and The Process ofInvention, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. David A. Mindell is currently Dibner Assistant Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. He has a Ph.D. in the History of Technology from MIT. His research interests include technology policy (historical and current), the history of automation in the military, the history of electronics and computing, cultural studies of technology, and deep-ocean archaeology. He is just completing a book on the USS MONITOR and the history of American technology. He is a visiting investigator in the Deep Submergence Laboratory of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. There he conducts engineering research in distributed control systems for remotely-operated and autonomous underwater vehicles for exploring the deepest parts of the ocean, and has participated in more than a dozen oceanographic cruises. He developed the high-precision sonar navigation system for control of undersea robots in very deep water, called EXACT, which is used to make the world's most accurate three-dimensional maps of the ocean floor. Alex Roland is Professor of History at Duke University, where he teaches military history and the history of technology. From 1973 to 1981 he was a historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, where he wrote Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1915-1958 (1985). He is a former president of the Society for the History of Technology. Eric Schatzberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book on the shift from wood to metal airplane structures, Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal, was published by Princeton University Press in late 1998. George E. Smith is both a philosopher and an engineer. As a philosopher of science at Tufts University, his focus on evidence in science and applied fields has led him into extensive work on Newton's Principia and its historical impact. As an engineer he has specialized on analytic methods for jet engine design at General Electric (Evendale) in the late 1950's and Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in the early 1960's, and, since joining Northern Research and Engineering corporation in 1965, on vibration­ related fatigue problems in turbo machinery. Frederick Suppe is Professor and Chair of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Maryland. His books include The Structure ofScientific Theories, The Semantic Conception of Theories, and the forthcoming Facts, Theories, and 364 CONTRIBUTORS Scientific Observation. He is in the latter stages of completing Venus Alive! Modeling Scientific Knowledge, a historico-philosophical study of modeling in Venus planetary science. He was involved in the computerization of flight-test instrumentation and data analysis at General Electric Flight Test, is a commercial pilot, and has been known to indulge in unusual attitudes. Walter G. Vincenti is professor emeritus of aeronautical engineering at Stanford University, past chair of Stanford's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. As a research worker and teacher for fifty-five years, he has contributed usefully to the development of high­ speed aerodynamics. INDEX