Melvin Kranzberg
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Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, 1917 to December 6, 1995) was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a PhD from Harvard College and served in the Army in Europe during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for interrogating captured German prisoners and learning the location of Nazi gun emplacements. He was one of two interrogators out of nine in Patton's army that were not killed during the conflict.
Kranzberg is known for Kranzberg's laws of technology, the first of which states "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral."
He was one of the founders of the Society for the History of Technology in the US and long-time editor of its journal Technology and Culture. Kranzberg served as president of the society from 1983 to 1984, and, edited the society's journal from 1959 to 1981. The society awards a yearly $2000 fellowship named after Kranzberg to doctoral students engaged in the preparation of dissertations on the history of technology. The award is available to students anywhere in the world.[1]
[edit] External links
- SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY (SHOT) RECORDS, 1956-1998 Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
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