Melvin kranzberg biography

American professor of the history of technology

Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, – December 6, ) was an American historian, and professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from until He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from to

Born in St.

Louis, Missouri, Kranzberg graduated from Amherst College, received a master's and a Ph.D. from Harvard University and served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II. He received a Bronze Star for interrogating captured German prisoners and learning the location of Nazi gun emplacements.

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He was one of two interrogators out of nine in Patton's army who were not killed during the conflict. He received his interrogation training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, making him one of the Ritchie Boys.

Kranzberg is known for his laws of technology, the first of which states "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral."^[1]

He was one of the founders of the