Martha Goodway

Metallurgist, Emeritus

 

Phone: 301-238-1213
Fax: 301-238-3709
E-mail Address: GoodwayM [at] si.edu

Address:
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, MD 20746

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Education

S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1958)

Research Specialties and Interests

• Archaeometallurgy
• The study of the traditional technologies of mining, smelting, refining, and forming of metals and their by-products in Europe, Egypt, and Southwest Asia
• The metals of music

Recent Publications

Goodway, Martha E. 2009. Overstrung strings from 18th- and 19th-century English square pianos. Historical Metallurgy, 43(2): 98-102.

Goodway, Martha 2005. 'Westphalian' fining: a tool mis-identified. Historical Metallurgy, 39(1): 29-31.

Elban, W.L. and Goodway, M. 2004. Metallurgical Investibation of an Iron Cable Wire in a Gries-Gendell (Severson) Girder. APT Bulletin, 35(2-3): 17-26.