Lewis, W(alter) David
LEWIS, W(alter) David
LEWIS, W(alter) David. American, b. 1931. Genres: Business/Trade/Industry, Economics, Engineering, History, Technology. Career: Hudson Professor of History and Engineering, Auburn University, Alabama, 1991-94, Distinguished University Professor, 1994-. Fellowship Coordinator, Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation, Wilmington, Delaware, and Lecturer in History, University of Delaware, Newark, both 1959-65; Associate Professor of History, 1965-71, and Professor, 1971, State University of New York, Buffalo; Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., 1993-94. Leonardo de Vinci Medal, Society for The History of Technology, 1993. Publications: From Newgate to Dannemora: The Rise of the Penitentiary in New York, 1796-1848, 1965; Iron and Steel in America, 1976; (with W.P. Newton) Delta: The History of an Airline, 1979; (with W.F. Trimble) The Airway to Everywhere: A History of All American Aviation 1937-1953, 1987; Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District: An Industrial Epic, 1994. EDITOR: (with D.T. Gilchrist) Economic Change in the Civil War Era, 1965; (with B.E. Griessman) The Southern Mystique: Technology and Human Values in a Changing Region, 1977. Address: 708 Thach Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, U.S.A.