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From: ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler)
Subject: Archaeology of the Trailing Edge of Technology
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.065406.24775@ms.uky.edu>
Sender: ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler)
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1991 06:54:06 GMT
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A friend of mine told me that someone got her PhD in archaeology from
Columbia University in the last two or three decades by writing a thesis
on the methods that were used to make vacuum tubes. This was written after
the invention of the transistor.

I would very much like to read this thesis and perhaps others like it.
If anyone knows how to obtain a copy, please let me know. I don't know
any details: the name of the author, the name of the thesis, the year of
the thesis, was it really Columbia, etc.

I would have posted this to soc.archaeology if there were such a group.

Allan Adler