{{short description|American historian}}
'''W. Patrick McCray''' (born 1967) is a professor of history at the [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]. His subjects include the [[history of science]] and the [[history of technology]].<ref name=homepage>{{cite web|title=W. Patrick McCray|website=Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara|url=https://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/w-patrick-mccray/}}</ref>
== Life == McCray received a PhD from the University of Arizona in 1996. He is the author or editor of several books on the history of science and technology.
== Works == {{external media | width = 210px | float = right | headerimage= [[File:Tethered asteroid.png|210px]] | audio1 = [https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/is-space-the-place “Episode 206: Is Space the Place? Trying to Save Humanity by Mining Asteroids”], [[Science History Institute]] }}
*''Glassmaking in Renaissance Venice'', 1999, Ashgate. *''Giant Telescopes: Astronomical Ambitions and the Promise of Technology'', 2004, Harvard University Press. *''Keep Watching the Skies: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age'', 2008, Princeton University Press. * [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Visioneers.html?id=i-Xh0i4-mnYC ''The Visioneers. How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnologies, and a Limitless Future'']. 2012, Princeton University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-691-13983-8}}. * [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo23530252.html''Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture''], co-edited with David Kaiser, 2016, University of Chicago Press, {{ISBN|9780226372914}} * [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-art-work#:~:text=Patrick%20McCray%20shows%20how%20in,art%20galleries%2C%20and%20university%20campuses.''Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture''], 2020, MIT Press. * [https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53867/greedy-science?srsltid=AfmBOop3g_uv6nrRtgCAn1DOc5NcbdmcGJ3e4sOPIQggVVrsnAqegwrc '' Greedy Science: Creating Knowledge, Making Money and Being Famous in the 1980s''], co-edited with Michael D. Gordin, 2025, Johns Hopkins University Press
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/w-patrick-mccray UCSB Home page] * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x5F7a6AAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar page] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI06RtB-_q4 2016 Davos talk on "Industrial Revolutions"] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6J_AweAjQ 2017 Davos panel on "Maintaining Innovation"]
=== Archival collections ===
* [https://libserv.aip.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=Q68114415939T.270936&menu=search&aspect=power&npp=10&ipp=20&spp=20&profile=rev-all&ri=2&source=%7E%21horizon&index=.GW&term=PATRICK+MCCRAY+RESEARCH+MATERIAL+FOR+HIS+BOOK%2C+GIANT+TELESCOPES&x=0&y=0&aspect=power Patrick McCray research material for his book, Giant Telescopes, 1904-2003, Niels Bohr Library & Archives] {{Authority control}}
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