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Elting E. Morison

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Elting Elmore Morison was an author of non-fiction books, an essayist, a United States historian of technology, a military biographer, an MIT professor emeritus, the conceiver and founder of MIT's program in Science, Technology and Society (STS).

Morison earned his BA (1932) and MA (1937) at Harvard University, where he served for two years as assistant dean. In 1946 he took a position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of humanities in the Sloan School of Industrial Management. Apart from a six-year stint at Yale University as master of Timothy Dwight College, Morison taught at MIT until his retirement as the Killian Chair of the Humanities.

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Men, Machines, and Modern Times

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