Merritt Roe Smith

Merritt Roe Smith is an American historian, and the Leverett and William Cutten Professor of the History of Technology, at MIT.

Life

Smith graduated from Georgetown University, and Pennsylvania State University with a Ph.D. His research focuses on the history of technological innovation and social change. He currently teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology., and is writing a monograph on technology and the American Civil War. Smith is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the Society for the History of Technology.

Awards

• nominated 1977 Pulitzer Prize in History.
• Leonardo da Vinci Medal, from Society for the History of Technology
• 1977 Frederick Jackson Turner Award

Works

• "Technology, Industrialization, and the Idea of Progress in America"
• "Industry, Technology, and the 'Labor Question' in 19th-Century America"

• Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology. Cornell University Press. 1977. ISBN 9780801491818. http://books.google.com/books?id=7sAbIf9j_8QC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Merritt+inauthor:Roe+inauthor:Smith&ei=ex4MS6fwFIW2NMq4mJAB#v=onepage&q=&f=false.  (reprint 1980)
• Merritt Roe Smith, ed. (1985). Military Enterprise and Technological Change. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262192392. http://books.google.com/books?id=ukk6jtvWtMoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Merritt+inauthor:Roe+inauthor:Smith&ei=ex4MS6fwFIW2NMq4mJAB#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Merritt Roe Smith, Leo Marx, ed. (1994). Does Technology Drive History?. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262691673. http://books.google.com/books?id=WWztFfsA-QEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Merritt+inauthor:Roe+inauthor:Smith&ei=ex4MS6fwFIW2NMq4mJAB#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Major Problems in the History of American Technology (1998), co-edited with Gregory Clancey
• Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar (2003). Inventing America. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393168143.  (reprint 2006)