David E. Nye

American historian of technology (b. 1946); professor of American history; recipient of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal (2005).

David E. Nye is a prolific American historian of technology whose work examines the intersections of technology, energy, and American culture. He holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota and has held professorships at the University of Southern Denmark and Warwick University. His books include Electrifying America (1990), American Technological Sublime (1994), Consuming Power (1998), America as Second Creation (2003), and Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (2006). In 2005 he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal from the Society for the History of Technology, its highest honor, recognizing his distinguished contributions to the field.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: chronicler. Nye contributed the essay "Energy in the Thought and Design of R. Buckminster Fuller" to New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller. The essay discusses the concept of energy as it manifests in R. Buckminster Fuller's designs across the years, from the service core at the center of his Dymaxion house to his proposals for worldwide energy grids that would share electricity around the globe. As one of the foremost historians of American technology and energy, Nye brings deep contextual knowledge to Fuller's energy thinking, situating it within the broader history of how Americans have produced, distributed, and consumed power.

See Also

• New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller — the collection he contributed to

Sources

• New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (source reference) — Zotero record for the anthology