Sally Hacker Prize

Given by Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

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The Sally Hacker Prize was established in 1999 to honor exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond the academy to toward a broad audience . Any book published in the three years preceding the show more year of the award is eligible (for example, books eligible for the 2012 award would have been published in 2009–2011). The prize consists of a cash award and a certificate ). show less
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WorkYear
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
2022
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another (The MIT Press) by Ainissa Ramirez
2021
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (Infrastructures) by Morgan G. Ames
2020
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (The MIT Press) by Meredith Broussard
2019
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing) by Marie Hicks
2018
Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster (Western Histories) by Norris Hundley Jr.
2017
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing by Laura J. Snyder
2016
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson
2015
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser
2014
The Color Revolution by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
2013
Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929 by Molly W. Berger
2012
Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control by James Rodger Fleming
2011
Fresh: A Perishable History (Belknap Press) by Susanne Freidberg
2010
Technology Matters: Questions to Live With by David E. Nye
2009
Technology in World History: 7-volume set by W. Bernard Carlson
2008
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book) by Mark Katz
2007
Infrastructure : a field guide to the industrial landscape by Brian Hayes
2006
Bicycle: The History by David V. Herlihy
2005
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit
2004
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball
2003
The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson by Bella Bathurst
2002
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor by David A. Mindell
2001
Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, from Amos 'n' Andy and Edward R. Murrow to Wolfman Jack and Howard Stern by Susan J. Douglas
2000
Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan
1999

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