Books

Reexamines the Work and Legacy of One of the Most Important Figures of the Victorian Era

Explores the Early Life and Career of a Figure Central to the Development of Modern Scientific Practice

Combining biographical and institutional history, Thomas C. Lassman examines the professional career of theoretical physicist Edward Condon at Princeton University, Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Electric Company and Manufacturing Company, and the National Bureau of Standards to illuminate contested visions of the usefulness of science that played out during The Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early Cold War.

A Deeper Understanding of the Work and Character of the Great Eighteenth-Century Engineer