STS Professional Development Fellowship Proposal in the History of Communications Technology

这个专业发展奖学金结合了专业历史学家和专业工程师的才能，以调查通信技术史上的主题。 主办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，培训他在历史学家的档案研究，分析和论证的技术。 培训内容包括阅读和讨论、参加研讨会和其他教学机会。 斯蒂芬将利用这些能力来调查1900年后美国电报行业进步的技术方面、频率控制技术进步对20年代无线电广播的影响以及高频测量在通信技术发展中的重要性。1945年以来。 这项研究将在一篇适合于学术期刊的文章中达到高潮，如技术和文化。

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.