ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) (04/13/91)
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
haynes@felix.ucsc.edu (99700000) (04/16/91)
In article <1991Apr13.065406.24775@ms.uky.edu> ghot@ms.uky.edu (Allan Adler) writes: > >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. > This reminds me to put in a plug for the organization, "Friends of Archaeology". Our code is that before sending anything to the dump we write a description of what it is and how it is used, in 3 languages, encase it in a plastic bag, and attach to the article being discarded. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)