David E. Nye

David E. Nye is Professor of American History at the University of Southern Denmark. He is the winner of the 2005 Leonardo da Vinci Medal of the Society for the History of Technology.^[1][2][3]

Nye is the author of

• The invented self : an anti-biography, from documents of Thomas A. Edison (1983)†
• Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930 (1985)
• Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (1990)
• American Technological Sublime (1994)
• Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (1997)
• Narratives and Spaces: technology and the construction of American culture (1997)**
• Technologies of landscape: from reaping to recycling (1999)*
• America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (2003)
• Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (2006) (for which he received the 2009 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology^[4])
• When the lights went out: a history of blackouts in America (2010)
• America's Assembly Line (2013)

all published by the MIT Press, except *University of Massachusetts Press; **Columbia University Press; and †Odense Univ. Press

References

1. The Leonardo da Vinci Medal, Society for the History of Technology. Accessed June 25, 2011
2. Professor David Nye: Leonardo da Vinci Medal, News and Events, University of Warwick. Accessed June 25, 2011
3. Professor David Nye, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark, is Awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal 2005 by the Society for the History of Technology, Danish Association for American Studies Newsletter, Spring 2006, pp. 6-7
4. Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology. Accessed June 25, 2011

External links

• Faculty profile, Center for American Studies, University of Southern Denmark
• David Nye CV, University of Southern Denmark