With Newsletter and bibliography

May 1st, 2008 Posted in WITH Information
 

Molly,
 
This post by Julie reminded me to check with you.  Did you receive the update I sent for the newsletter in September?  I have something to add–that a colleague and I are trying to find grant funding for our longstanding work on Trevithick and  his various contributions to steam engines.  A copy of the full update that I sent, with some changes, is below:
 
Dear Molly,
 
I have just moved several storage bins of “stuff” into Champaign and have hired several assistants to help me.  I am still working on spin-offs from my projects, including the history of women in engineering, the history of the electrochemical industry (which does have a chapter on women’s contributions),which needs to be updated especially w. r. t. energy issues, history of the bicycle industry and others, most of which were carried forward at UIUC.  Some were completed there, with various publications, and some are still on-going,.  In September,as well as last year, I  also sent in items for the WITH bibliography, with some suggestions for crossreferencing between sections in it. Thanks to Rachel and Daryl for that and to you for this update.  Also, on-going thanks to Melanie for her work on the WITH website! I have offered, for a while now, to pay her for her work on our great website and do intend to do that soon. Thanks so much to Carolyn Cooper, whose wonderful, charming aunt I interviewed years ago as part of the women in engineering history and for sending the early WITH newsletters to me recently. I have written her a note of thanks, too.  These are great resources of information and need to be preserved in the WITH archives.  If there is ever time to put them online in our website,crediting Carolyn for finding them (mine are in my storage bins, to be unearthed soon, hopefully) I think WITH members might be interested.
 
Of course, this year and next, the 200th anniversary of  Lincoln’s birthday is being celebrated to a great extent in Central Illinois especially (and the 175th of the founding of Urbana, where I owned a home for nearly 30 years.  Since childhood, I admired Lincoln, and this past summer have been researching aspects of his life and work, especially as may pertain to the history of technology and to women in technology.
 
Hope to see colleagues at the conference on gender at UIUC in March, recently announced on the WTIHlist. It’s the 10th annual one, I believe, and one whose beginnings and prior work in the field at UIUC I recall. Had wanted to make it to Lisbon, but, as always, am glad to send money to help WITH there and elsewhere, as with the travel award, luncheon, etc.  Am registered for the fall conference at the Hagley and maybe I’ll see some of you there.  The paper in that conference on women and automobile history may be of great interest to WITH.  I wrote a section on women and bicycles in the transition to women drivers and automobiles in one paper I did.
 
Thanks,
 
Martha
 
P. S. My new  mailing address is P. O. Box 405, Champaign, IL 61824.  New phone # is 217-722-3743.
 
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For the WITH bibliography, with the suggested crossreferencing others might want to consider, too.  I will help pay Melanie or our new webmaster, or both, to help with this for interested WITH members
 
 
Hi, Rachel,  Daryl, and Melanie,
 
I sent a copy of many of my publications to Daryl for the WITH bibliography when she first asked for this.  I mailed it to her, and then I think I referred Rachel to this same list when I heard that you were working on it. I have now included full citations where some information was missing in the earlier mailing. I have also now divided it according to your categories in the bibliography on the WITH website.  It is really a good job so far.  However, a number of mine relevant to women and technology are not included under the different categories.  I will list them below, by those categories.  Perhaps Melanie can add these.  As I’ve said, I do want to send her something for her work on the website, in general, and think you two should be compensated, too, for all this. I would like to get Melanie’s surface mail address, if possible.
 
In the  general category, along with Dynamos and Virgins Revisited:   Women and Technological Change in History, ed. Martha Moore Trescott, Metuchen, NJ, 1979, please add the 2003 paperback edition by Scarecrow Press, still available, same title and editor. It is considered a separate title.
 
Also, where someone’s work pertains to more than one category, it might be wise to cross-reference with a shortened citation. Also, perhaps we could consider very brief annotations when important.
 
 
1)    “Architecture and Building”, please add Martha Moore Trescott, A History of Women in Engineering in the U. S., 1850-1970, T & L Enterprises, 1996, Dallas, Texas (U. S. copyright, 1996), chapter on architecture and architectural engineering, many interviews of women in architectural engineering history.
 
 
 2) ”Computing and  Telecommunications,”, also add Martha Moore Trescott, New Images, New Paths: A History of Women in Engineering (see above).  Many interviews of women in early computing, telephony and radar.
 
Also under “Computing and Telecommunications, ” also please list Martha Moore Trescott,”Women in the Intellectual Development of Engineering: A Study in Persistence and Systems Thought”  in Gabriel Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes, ed., Women of Science:
 
 3) Under “Electricity, Power and Infrastructure,” this essay in Gabriel Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes, above, should also be listed, especially since it deals with primary-source research I did into work by Edith Clark, not only on computers but on electric power grids.
 
Also, please list  under Electricity, Power and Infrastructure,Martha Moore Trescott, New Images, New Paths (see above), especially chapter 5, section on electricity and electrical engineers a very lengthy section with sections of transcripts of my interviews with many electrical engineers.
 
Also under electricity, power and infrastructure, please list the book Martha Moore Trescott, The  Rise  of the American Electochemicals Industry, 1880-1910:  Studies in the American Technological Environment, Greenwood Press, 1981.  There is a chapter specifically on women’s contributions.
 
4)  Under “Employment and Work,” please add Martha Moore Trescott,  “Women Engineers in American History: Profiles in Holism and Persistence, ed. Carolyn Perrucci and Violet B. Haas, Proceedings of the Conference on Women in the Professions. Science, Social Science and Engineering, University of Michigan Press, 1984.
 
Also, under “Employment and Work,” please add Martha Moore Trescott, “Women Engineers in American History”. ASEE Proceedings, 1981, pp. 1123-1128.
 
Also, under employment and work, please add Martha Moore Trescott, ”Women in Engineering and Management in American History, 1850-1975′, Business and Economic History, second series, 1981, pp. 52-4.
 
In the section on work,  Trescott, Martha Moore. “A History of Women Engineers in the United
States, 1850-1975: A Progress Report.” In PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN
ENGINEERS 1979 NATIONAL CONFERENCE, pp.1-14. New York: Society of Women
Engineers, 1979.
 Also,  Trescott, Martha Moore. “Women and Engineering Education: Historical
Sketches.” In WOMEN AND ENGINEERING EDUCATION: REPORT ON A CONFERENCE OF THE
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, 20 AND 21 MARCH 1987, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA,
pp.II1-II16. Northridge, CA: Women in Science and Engineering Programs, School
of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, 1988
 
There is also a full-length progress report in book form to the NSF on my women engineers history, held in various libraries, Martha Moore Trescott, LinkA history of women engineers in the United States, 1850-1975 : a progress report / prepared for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois by Martha Moore Trescott. this copy held at MIT.
 
Also, Martha Moore Trescott, “Refuting the Image: A History of Women Engineers in the United States, 1850-1975,” Society of Women Engineers Proceedings, vol. 1,  1979, 1-11.
 
I also reviewed two books for Harvard Business History in 1981 and 1982 that should probably be added  in the section on work by Martha Soltow and Mary K. Wery on American Women in the Labor Movement, 1825-1974:  An Annotated Bibliography, Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1976 and
Essays from the Lowell Conference in Industrial History 1980 and 1981, ed. Robert Weible, Oliver Ford and Paul Marion, Lowell, Mass., Lowell Conference on Industrial History, 1981.
 
5) Under “Health and Medicine,” there are interviews with women in bioengineering and other related fields, in Martha Moore Trescott, New Images, New Paths:  A History of Women in Engineering (see above).

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Also, Martha Moore Trescott, “Women Engineers in Economic Development, Christian Century, vol. 96, 1979. 715-6. This paper could also be listed under “Agriculture.”  II presented a seminar on this topic at UIUC College of Engineering,, too, in 1985,)
 
The Dynamos and Virgins book also has an essay on reproductive technologies by Vern Bullough. And does contain several essays on women workers in industry, of course. Perhaps we should cite all the essays in that book separately in relevant categories, in addition to listing the book under “General” sources (which is a good category, in and of itself, of course).
 
6) Under “Inventing and Patents,” please add Martha Moore Trescott, “Julia B. Hall and Aluminum,” in    Dynamos and Virgins Revisited, above, pp. 149-179 and also articles on Julia B. Hall and Aluminum in Technology and Culture, vol. 17 (July, 1976), Journal of Chemical Education, 54, January, 1977, p, 24, and Science, 1975, p. 763.
 
Also Martha Moore Trescott, The Bicycle Precursor of the Automobile,” Business and Economic History, V,
second series, 1976, pp. 51-75, This should especially be listed under the “Transportation”section.
 
Also, Martha Moore Trescott, Frederick Mark Becket and Electrothermics,” Electrochemical Society, History of Electrochemistry Symposium, ed. George Dubpernell and J. H. Westbrook, Princeton, NJ, 1978.
 
Also, Martha Moore Trescott, :Frederick M. Becket and the Niagara Research Laboratories  A Case Study in the Evolution of Modern Corporate R & D,” abstract in American Chemical Society, Abstracts of Papers, April 6-11, 1975.
 
7)  Under “Manufacturing,” please add Martha Moore Trescott, New Images, New Paths:  A History of Women in Engineering in the U. S., 1850-1980 (srill in print, see above citation of the book, described in detail on the T & L Enterprises webpage).  Many interviews of women engineers in manufacturing in a wide variety of fields of manufacturing and engineering..
 
Also, Martha Moore Trescott, The Rise of the American Electrochemical Industry, 1880-1910, Greenwood Press, 1981 (see above).
 
Martha Moore Trescott, “Unit Operations in the Chemical Industry,”  A Century of Chemical Engineering, ed. William F. Furter, Plenum Press, 1982.
 
Martha Moore Trescott, “The Bicycle as Technical Precursor of the Automobile,” (see above), as an industry study, with mention of companies and manufacturers, as well as women consumers.
 
8)  In the category of Science, the Martha Moore Trescott, “Julia B. Hall and Aluminum” essay in Dynamos and Virgins Revisited above, could be noted.
 
Also, Martha Moore Trescott,  The Rise of the American Electrochemical Industry, including the chapter on women, cited above, noting some women scientists and also with some focus on academic developments and developments in professional societies in electrochemistry, electrochemical and chemical engineering.
 
Martha Moore Trescott, “Frederick M. Becket and Electrothermics” and also his founding of the Niagara Research Labs, cited above.
 
Also, Martha Moore Trescott, “Women in the Intellectual Development of Engineering,” in Gabriel Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes, Righting the Record, cited above, 1990, focuses on scientific developments in engineering. 
 
The Lillian Moller Gilbreth essay, cited above, could be listed here.
 
Martha Moore Trescott, New Images, New Paths, cited above, contains  information in both the interviews and other research on scientifically based engineering.
 
9)  Under the “transportation” category, Martha Moore Trescott, “The Bicycle as Technical Precursor of the Automobile”, cited above, should be listed.  This is probably the best category in which to place it.
 
Also, New Images, New Paths, cited above, has information on various aspects of transportation, including automobiles, railroads, air transport, but I wouldn’t include the transportation of oil in pipelines here, as some have perhaps done.  (My interview with Ivy Parker, chemical engineer in the petroleum industry really shouldn’t have been included in the Department of Transportation essay on women.)
 
Thanks for your efforts to achieve a good, comprehensive bibliography for WITH.  A number of people in the profession have asked for many of the above citations.  I will certainly pay for your efforts to include these citations.  I was going to compensate Melanie for her work on our website and will send compensation for her now, before the Lisbon meetings,  if she can include these citations.  I and others feel they really should be included, as most of these included above have been considered important in the profession, not only in women in technological history but also in the history of technology, economic history, business history, history of science and women’s history generally, and I think that the WITH bibliography should serve as a good reference tool for all those fields.
 
Thanks again, and please let me know where to send compensation for the efforts of each one of you!  I will do so this week.
 
Martha

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