STS Professional Development Fellowship Proposal in the History of Communications Technology

这一专业发展奖学金结合了一位专业历史学家和一位专业工程师的才华，调查通信技术历史上的主题。主持人历史学家布鲁斯·亨特将与电气工程教授卡尔·斯蒂芬密切合作，培训他档案研究、分析和论证的技巧。培训部分将包括阅读和讨论、参加研讨会和其他教学机会。斯蒂芬将利用这些能力调查1900年后美国电报业进步的技术方面，20世纪20年代频率控制技术进步对无线电广播的影响，以及自1945年以来高频测量在通信技术发展中的意义。这项研究的最终结果将是一篇适合发表在《技术与文化》等学术期刊上的文章。

This Professional Development Fellowship combines the talents of a professional historian and a professional engineer to investigate topics in the history of communications technology. Host historian Bruce Hunt will work closely with electrical engineering professor Karl Stephan to train him in the historian's techniques of archival research, analysis and argument. Included in the training component will be reading and discussion, seminar participation, and other instructional opportunities. Stephan will use these abilities to investigate technical aspects of progress in the U.S. telegraph industry after 1900, the influences which the technical advances in frequency control had on radio broadcasting in the 1920s, and the significance of high-frequency measurements in the development of communications technology since 1945. The research will culminate in an article suitable for a scholarly journal such as Technology and Culture.