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Master mechanics & wicked wizards : images of the American scientist as hero and villain from colonial times to the present / Glen Scott Allen.

By: Publication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2009.Description: 304 p., [18] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781558497023 (lib. cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1558497021 (lib. cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781558497030 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 155849703X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Master mechanics and wicked wizards
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 509.73 22
LOC classification:
  • Q127.U6 A6815 2009
Contents:
Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century -- Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction -- A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century -- The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps -- The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors -- Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s -- Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb -- Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA -- Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics? -- America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier -- Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America -- DeÌjaÌ vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Simon pure amateurs : American scientists of the early nineteenth century -- Sex and the single mad scientist : domesticating scientific passion in nineteenth-century American fiction -- A cabinet of wonders : selling American science in the nineteenth century -- The world of tomorrow : technocracy as utopia in the age of pulps -- The incredible shrinking scientist : how the heroes of Los Alamos became internationalist traitors -- Invaders with Ph.D.'s : aliens, commies, and eggheads in science fiction films of the 1950s -- Fallout : politics and paranoia after the bomb -- Rocket science : (their) Sputniks + (our) dudniks = NASA -- Tom Swift and the cosmic astronauts : pilots, pitchmen, warriors, or mechanics? -- America vs. the evil empire(s) : good astronauts, bad aliens, and the battle for the high frontier -- Looking backward : useful vs. wicked inventing in colonial America -- DeÌjaÌ vu all over again : fear, funding, and ignorance in contemporary scientific "controversies."

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