[SIGCIS-Members] Two more biographies

[Ceruzzi, Paul]

I am enjoying the "meta-discussion" about the value of biographies. Although not directly computer-related, these two deserve mention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_the_Saints
(Bonus points if you went to a Jesuit high school and read them in Latin.)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lives-engineers
This edition is edited by Thomas Parke Hughes. At one time required reading for anyone studying the history of technology.
Lives of the Engineers | The MIT Press<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lives-engineers>
The original edition of this work, first printer as two volumes in 1861, has long been out of print and is now a collector's item. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was a popular writer of “edifying” books, in the Victorian sense, whose best-known work, Self-Help (published in 1859), had sold almost a quarter of a million copies by 1900. As a British counterpart of the writers of American ...
mitpress.mit.edu
Best,

Paul Ceruzzi
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