Melvin Kranzberg was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a PhD from Harvard College and served in the Army in Europe during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for interrogating captured German prisoners and learning the location of Nazi gun emplacements.

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  • Melvin Kranzberg was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a PhD from Harvard College and served in the Army in Europe during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for interrogating captured German prisoners and learning the location of Nazi gun emplacements. He was one of two interrogators out of nine in Patton's army that were not killed during the conflict. Kranzberg is known for Kranzberg's laws of technology, the first of which states "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. " He was one of the founders of the Society for the History of Technology in the US and long-time editor of its journal Technology and Culture. Kranzberg served as president of the society from 1983 to 1984, and edited the society's journal from 1959 to 1981, when he turned it over to Robert C. Post of the Smithsonian Institution. The society awards a yearly $4000 fellowship named after Kranzberg to doctoral students engaged in the preparation of dissertations on the history of technology. The award is available to students anywhere in the world.
  • Melvin Kranzberg war ein US-amerikanischer Technikhistoriker. Unter anderem sind nach ihm die sechs "Kranzbergschen Gesetze" benannt. Kranzberg studierte am Amherst College und am Harvard College, wo er den akademischen Grad PhD erwarb. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges diente er als Soldat in Europa. Er war einer der Gründer der Society for the History of Technology in den Vereinigten Staaten. Bekannt ist Kranzberg neben seiner Arbeit als Wissenschaftler für seine Technologiegesetze, die einerseits einen ernsthaften wissenschaftlichen Kern besitzen, andererseits jedoch auch mit einem gewissen Augenzwinkern verstanden werden müssen.
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  • Melvin Kranzberg was a professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a PhD from Harvard College and served in the Army in Europe during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for interrogating captured German prisoners and learning the location of Nazi gun emplacements.
  • Melvin Kranzberg war ein US-amerikanischer Technikhistoriker. Unter anderem sind nach ihm die sechs "Kranzbergschen Gesetze" benannt. Kranzberg studierte am Amherst College und am Harvard College, wo er den akademischen Grad PhD erwarb. Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges diente er als Soldat in Europa. Er war einer der Gründer der Society for the History of Technology in den Vereinigten Staaten.
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  • Melvin Kranzberg
  • Melvin Kranzberg
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