Martha Goodway

Martha Goodway is an American metallurgist, specializing in archaeometallurgy, the study of traditional techniques of mining, smelting, and working metals; and an expert in the use of metals in historical harpsichords.

Early life and education

Martha Goodway was raised in Roslindale, Massachusetts. She graduated from Roslindale High School in 1952,[1] and earned a bachelor's degree in general engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1957.[2] She was one of only nineteen women to earn degrees at MIT that year.[3]

Career

After college she became interested in conservation science, and studied with William Young at the Objects Conservation and Scientific Research Laboratory in Boston. Through Young's connections, she became a metallurgist at the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution. In that job, she worked on such diverse historical artifacts as waterproof Greek vessels,[4] Etruscan mirrors,[5] 18th-century wire jewelry from Germany,[6] and the crankcase of the Wright Brothers' first flyer.[7] She was also consulted for comments on the restoration of the Statue of Liberty.[8]

She developed an interest in the use of metals in historical musical instruments, particularly the harpsichord,[9][10] and co-authored a book on the subject in 1987.[11]

Goodway currently holds the title Archaeometallurgist Emeritus at the Smithsonian's Museum Conservation Institute.[12]

References

  1. ↑ Roslindale High School Yearbook, 1952.
  2. ↑ CEE in Focus: Alumni News (Spring 2011), Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  3. ↑ Lynne Robinson, "Martha Goodway: How History is Made" Journal of Metallurgy 67(9)(2015): 1918-1920.
  4. ↑ Ivan Amato, "Researchers Swap Material Evidence in Boston" Science 258(5090)(18 December 1992): 1886.
  5. ↑ Martha Goodway, "Etruscan Mirrors: A Reinterpretation" in Stuart J. Fleming and Helen R. Schenck, eds., History of Technology: The Role of Metals (UPenn Museum of Archaeology 1989): 25. ISBN 9780924171956
  6. ↑ Paul Lee, Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man (iUniverse 2012): 424-425. ISBN 9781475956559
  7. ↑ Frank W. Gayle and Martha Goodway, "Precipitation Hardening in the First Aerospace Aluminum Alloy: The Wright Flyer Crankcase" Science 266(5187)(11 November 1994): 1015-1017. DOI: 10.1126/science.266.5187.1015
  8. ↑ Jonathan Waldman, Rust: The Longest War (Simon & Schuster 2015): 27. ISBN 9781451691610
  9. ↑ Thomas Donahue, The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook (Rowman & Littlefield 2015): 1. ISBN 9781442243453
  10. ↑ Martha Goodway, "Iron" in Igor Kipnis, ed., The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Encyclopedia (Routledge 2013): 267. ISBN 9781135949785
  11. ↑ Martha Goodway and Jay Scott Odell, The Metallurgy of 17th- and 18th-Century Music Wire (Pendragon Press 1987). ISBN 9780918728548
  12. ↑ Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, "Martha Goodway".
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