David Hochfelder
Associate Professor
History
University at Albany
United States of America
Biography
An electrical engineer turned historian, Hochfelder specializes in the history of U.S. business and technology. He also helps administer UAlbany's public history program. Before joining UAlbany, Hochfelder served as a research historian at the Thomas Edison Papers. He is the author of The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). His next project will be a social history of savings and investment. He has appeared in two episodes of the History Channel's "Modern Marvels" series.
Research Interest
History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment
Publications
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Hochfelder, David. (2007). David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr. Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxv + 270 pp. ISBN 0-691-10292-9, $29.95 (cloth).. Enterprise and Society. 8. 958-960. 10.1017/S1467222700006522.
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Arceneaux, Noah. (2013). The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920 by David Hochfelder (review). Technology and Culture. 54. 665-666. 10.1353/tech.2013.0104.
