Melvin Kranzberg (November 22, 1917 – December 6, 1995) was an American historian, and professor of history at Case Western Reserve University from 1952 until 1971. He was a Callaway professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech from 1972 to 1988. Kranzberg is known for his laws of technology, the first of which states "Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral." Howard P. Segal wrote an informative semi-biographical tribute to Kranzberg in the Virginia Quarterly Review. There are two biographical articles by Robert C. Post in Technology and Culture: