Overpotential: Fuel Cells, Futurism, and the Making of a Power Panacea

Acknowledgments

ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I have much gratitude for the many persons and organizations that helped make this book possible. I gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the IEEE History Center, and the Institute of Historical Research/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. I am also indebted to the staffs of the Churchill College Archives Centre at Cambridge University, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, the NASA Headquarters History Office in Washington, DC, and the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. And I owe special thanks to the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara for postdoctoral fellowships that allowed me to revise and complete a manuscript that originated as an idea for a doctoral dissertation at the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta in the summer of 2003. Many people provided insight, inspiration, and support, without which this book could not have been realized. I thank Greg Anderson, Kathryn Rice Bullock, Charles Chamberlin, Martin J. Collins, Gwen D’Arcangelis, John M. DeCicco, Erika Dyck, David Edgerton, Michael Egan, Colin Fries, Michael N. Geselowitz, Will Hively, Karl V. Kordesch, John Langdon, Roger D. Launius, Christophe Lécuyer, Peter Lehman, Stuart W. Leslie, Robert MacDougall, David Marples, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Suzanne Moon, Yasuyuki Motoyama, Fredrik Nebeker, Allan A. Needell, Michael J. Neufeld, Jane Odom, Gabriella M. Petrick, Daniel Sperling, Charles Stone, Rick Szostak, John Vardalas, Hal Wallace, and especially Sara Eisler, Barbara Herr Harthorn, Suzanne Kellam, W. Patrick McCray, Peter Mickulas, Susan L. Smith, Robert W. Smith, Doreen Valentine, and my mother and father. Overpotential ...