Warner, Deborah J.

Fellowship Advisor

National Museum of American History staff

History of scientific instruments; history of celestial cartography; women in science and technology.

education and training

B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., Harvard University

selected publications

article
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2019. "Joseph Henry and the Smithsonian's First Collection of Scientific Apparatus." Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society (142): 26-32. 2019
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2017. "The American Way of Weighing Hay." Equilibrium 2017 (2):4378-4381. 2017
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2016. "Benjamin Dearborn: Vibrating Steelyards and Gold Standard Balances." Equilibrium 2016 (4):4322-4328. 2016
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2014. "Maurice Ewing, Frank Press, and the Long-Period Seismographs at Lamont and Caltech." Earth Sciences History 33 (2):333-345. https://doi.org/10.17704/eshi.33.2.d71g20x1l716v218 2014
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2013. "The Smithsonian Takes the Temperature of the Earth." Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society (117): 26-28. 2013
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2012. "Casella and Phillips' Maximum Thermometers for Meteorology and Medicine." Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 115:36-38. 2012
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2012. "The Sprengnethers and Their Seismographs." eRittenhouse 24 (2): 2012
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2008. "Charting the water's edge." Nature 453 (7193):285-286. https://doi.org/10.1038/453285a 2008
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2008. "Ira Remsen, saccharin, and the linear model." Ambix 55 (1):50-61. https://doi.org/10.1179/174582308X255415 2008
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2007. "Harmonious triads: Physicists, musicians, and instrument makers in nineteenth-century Germany." Technology and Culture 48 (4):856-857. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2007.0191 2007
blog posting
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2021. "Historic helium sample surfaces at Smithsonian." [Blog] . 2021. https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/helium. 2021
book
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2011. Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2011
chapter
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2015. "Seismic Instruments, Geographical Perspectives." in Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration, edited by MacDonald, Fraser and Withers, Charles W. J., 161-177. Ashgate. 2015
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2013. "Inventions for Planters." in Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection, edited by Kagan, Neil and Hyslop, Stephen G., 24-25. Smithsonian Books. 2013
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2010. "Refractometers and Industrial Analysis." in Illuminating Instruments, edited by Morris, Peter and Staubermann, Klaus., 41-52. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 2010
review
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2009. [Book review] "Raising Cane in the &#39Glades. The Global Sugar Trade and the Transformation of Florida.." Technology and Culture. 926-927. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0376 2009
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2009. [Book review] "The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740-1870." Technology and Culture. 690-691. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0311 2009
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2009. [Book review] "The Transit of Venus Enterprise in Victorian Britain." Technology and Culture. 463-464. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.0.0244 2009
- Warner, Deborah Jean. 2008. [Book review] "The Geometry of Power / The Power of Geometry: Mathematical Instruments and Princely Mechanical Devices from around 1600." Journal for the History of Astronomy. 414-415. 2008

Warner, Deborah J.

Background And Education

education and training

Publications

selected publications

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blog posting

book

chapter

review

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