Martha Goodway

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Martha Goodway is an American metallurgist, specializing in archaeometallurgy, the study of traditional techniques of mining, smelting, and working metals; and an expert in the use of metals in historical harpsichords.

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Early life and education

Martha Goodway was raised in Roslindale, Massachusetts. She came from a family of engineers. [1] She graduated from Roslindale High School in 1952, [2] and earned a bachelor's degree in general engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957. [3] She was one of only nineteen women to earn degrees at MIT that year. [4]

Career

After college she became interested in conservation science, and studied with William Young at the Objects Conservation and Scientific Research Laboratory in Boston. Through Young's connections, she became a metallurgist at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution. She became the first metallurgist to work full time in a U.S museum. [1] She worked there for 41 years. [1] In that job, she worked on such diverse historical artifacts as waterproof Greek vessels, [5] Etruscan mirrors, [6] 18th-century wire jewelry from Germany, [7] and the crankcase of the Wright Brothers' first flyer. [8] She was also consulted for comments on the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. [9]

She developed an interest in the use of metals in historical musical instruments, particularly the harpsichord, [10] [11] and co-authored a book on the subject in 1987. [12]

Goodway currently holds the title Archaeometallurgist Emeritus at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute. [13]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Martha Goodway '57". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  2. ↑ Roslindale High School Yearbook, 1952.
  3. ↑ CEE in Focus: Alumni News Archived 2015-12-24 at the Wayback Machine (Spring 2011), Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  4. ↑ Lynne Robinson, "Martha Goodway: How History is Made" Journal of Metallurgy 67(9)(2015): 1918–1920. doi : 10.1007/s11837-015-1572-8
  5. ↑ Ivan Amato, "Researchers Swap Material Evidence in Boston" Science 258(5090)(18 December 1992): 1886.
  6. ↑ Martha Goodway, "Etruscan Mirrors: A Reinterpretation" in Stuart J. Fleming and Helen R. Schenck, eds., History of Technology: The Role of Metals (UPenn Museum of Archaeology 1989): 25. ISBN   978-0-924171-95-6
  7. ↑ Paul Lee, Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man (iUniverse 2012): 424-425. ISBN   978-1-4759-5655-9
  8. ↑ Frank W. Gayle and Martha Goodway, "Precipitation Hardening in the First Aerospace Aluminum Alloy: The Wright Flyer Crankcase" Science 266(5187)(11 November 1994): 1015–1017. DOI: 10.1126/science.266.5187.1015
  9. ↑ Jonathan Waldman, Rust: The Longest War (Simon & Schuster 2015): 27. ISBN   978-1-4516-9161-0
  10. ↑ Thomas Donahue, The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook (Rowman & Littlefield 2015): 1. ISBN   978-1-4422-4345-3
  11. ↑ Martha Goodway, "Iron" in Igor Kipnis, ed., The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia (Routledge 2013): 267. ISBN   978-1-135-94978-5
  12. ↑ Martha Goodway and Jay Scott Odell, The Metallurgy of 17th- and 18th-Century Music Wire (Pendragon Press 1987). ISBN   978-0-918728-54-8
  13. ↑ Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, "Martha Goodway".
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