Thomas P. Hughes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas P. Hughes

American historian

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1923

Place of Birth: Richmond, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 03-Feb-2014

Profession: historian, university teacher, historian of technology

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American historian of technology.
He was an emeritus professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting professor at MIT and Stanford.He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Virginia in 1953. He, along with John B.
Rae, Carl W.
Condit, and Melvin Kranzberg, were responsible for the establishment of the Society for the History of Technology and he was a recipient of its highest honor, the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 1985.He contributed to the concepts of technological momentum, technological determinism, large technical systems, social construction of technology, and introduced systems theory into the history of technology.