professor david mendel talks about the experience of the crews aboard one of the first ironclads. this is about 50 minutes. well, i ve got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be part of what we re doing today. and david mindell has been a friend of the uss monitor for quite some time. and i m so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i ve got to admit, i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mindell is a historian and electrical engineer. and he is the dibner professor of the history of engineering and manufacturing and professor of aeronautics and mast of aeronautics at mit. we re not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit s program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. he is an expert on human machine relationships in broad techni
much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mindell is a historian and electrical engineer. and he is the dibner professor of the history of engineering and manufacturing and. we re not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit s program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. he is an expert on human machine relationships in broad technical, social, and historical context. now, for years he s been combining engineering a ining a historical research into the evolution of humans relationships to machines. his book digital apollo, human and machine and space flight examined the computers, automation, and software in the apollo moon landings, their effects on human performance. his first book, war technology and experience aboard the uss monitor, now reissued at iron coffin, explored personal issues and dimensions of mechanization in the u.s. civil war and was awarded the sally hacker prize by the society of
i ve got to say i was so excited when our next speaker contacted me and wanted to be a part of what we re doing today. and david mendel has been a friend of the uss monitor for quite some time. and i m so pleased that his book has been reissued with a brand-new name, right up here. we have it in the gift shop. i ve got to admit i was an english literature nerd. and so the fact that he used so much melville and hawthorne in his book just made me so happy. well, david mendel is a historian and engineer. we re not sure when he sleeps either. he is also director of mit s program on technology and science and interdisciplinary department. he is an expert on human machine relationships in broad technical, social, and historical context. now for years he has been combining engineering and historical research into the evolution of humans relationships to machines. his book digital apollo, human and machine and space flight examines computers, and automation in the apollo moon
coffin was awarded the sally hacker prize by the society for the history of technology. before coming to mit, he worked as a research engineer in the deep submergence laboratory where he is now a visiting investigator. maybe we ll find out what he is investigating. he has conducted all kinds of research there and worked on operated on autonomous underwater vehicles for exploring the deepest parts of the ocean and even developed the control system and pilot interface for the woods hole jason vehicle. so the man has done a little bit of everything. monitor, apollo, bronze age shipwrecks, he does it all. today he is going to be telling us about our favorite ironclad. and i just noticed he has a degree in literature. i knew i liked him. and an electrical engineering from yale university, his doctorate in the history of technology from mit. so without further ado, david mendel. [ applause ] thank you. when anna invited me on the program, you know, i asked her if i should give