Erik M. Conway

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Erik Meade Conway [1] (born 1965) is the historian at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. [2] He is the author of several books. He previously completed a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1998, with a dissertation on the development of aircraft landing aids.

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In High-Speed Dreams (2005), Conway argues that U.S. government sponsorship of supersonic commercial transportation systems resulted from Cold War concerns about a loss of technological prowess in the modern world. [3] [4] Realizing the Dream of Flight (2006) consists of eleven essays on individuals prepared in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight. [5] Conway also wrote Blind Landings (2007) and he is a co-author of a secondary-level education text entitled Science and Exploration (2007). Atmospheric Science at NASA was published in 2008. [6]

His 2010 book Merchants of Doubt was co-authored with Naomi Oreskes, [7] as was his article in the Winter 2013 issue of Daedalus called The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. [8]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Erik Meade Conway". American Geophysical Union .
  2. ↑ "Collins Literary Agency Rights Guide/March 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2010-12-03.
  3. ↑ Book review: High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation The Journal of American History, Vol. 39, No. 1, June 2006.
  4. ↑ Erik M. Conway (2005). High-Speed Dreams: NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation Johns Hopkins University Press.
  5. ↑ Realizing the Dream of Flight: Biographical Essays in Honor of the Centennial of Flight, 1903–2003 (review) Technology and Culture , Volume 48, Number 1, January 2007, pp. 232–234.
  6. ↑ Erik M. Conway (2008). Atmospheric Science at NASA: a history Johns Hopkins University Press.
  7. ↑ McKie, Robin. "Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway". The Guardian, August 8, 2010
  8. ↑ "Some Like It Hot!" Bill McKibben May 9, 2013 New York Review of Books
  9. ↑ Conway, Erik M. (2006-11-04). Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918–1958. JHU Press. ISBN   978-0-8018-8449-8.
  10. ↑ Conway, Erik M. (2008-12-08). Atmospheric Science at NASA: A History. JHU Press. ISBN   978-1-4214-0163-8.
  11. ↑ Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. (2014-07-01). The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future. Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-53795-7.
  12. ↑ Oreskes, Naomi; Conway, Erik M. (2023-02-21). The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN   978-1-63557-358-9.
  13. ↑ Online version is titled "Unlimited information is transforming society".
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