The International Committee for the History of Technology
33rd Symposium in Leicester, U.K., 15 - 20 August 2006
http://icohtec.org/leicester2006
Transforming Economies and Civilizations
The Role of Technology
Sessions (organizer) Author & Paper
19 sections, 124 papers (four papers pending revisions)
1. Military Technology (Hacker) - 1 - Through the Early 19th Century
* Hacker, Firearms and Slaves: Slavery as a Military System
* Pesek: The History of an African, and Later, Colonial Military
Institution, 18201919
* Sadowski, Eli Whitney Redux; Or, Risk, Its Management, and the Early
Promotion of Arms Contracts with the U.S. Government
* Stieghan, From the American System of Manufactures to the Confederate
System: The Battlefield Effects of American Industrialization from the
Quasi-War to the Civil War
Military Technology - 2 - From the Late 19th Century through the First World
War
* Walton, Scientists and Sailors: US Naval Torpedo Station research after
the Civil War
* Scott, Technologies of Citizenship: Gender, Food, and World War I
American Dietetics
* Larrabee, Lafayette, We Are Here: Volunteerism, Bureaucracy, and US Army
Ambulances in World War I
* Vining, The Military Uses of Applied Social Science: Sophonisba
Breckinridge in World War I
Military Technology - 3 - From the First World War through the Second
* Zimmerman, The Scientific Translator and the Introduction of Advanced
Technology into the Military, 19141945
* Borisov, Birth of Radar in the USSR: Make-believe, Hopes and
Practicability
* Kinney, Air Racing, Aeronautical Technology, and the Rise of Military
Aviation
* Gucciardo, ³Another of Those Mad, Wild Schemes²: Civilian Innovation in
Canada during the Second World War
* Ossian, Junior Commandos' Mili-Toys: American Children's Militaristic Play
during the Second World War
Military Technology - 4 - After World War Two
* Harahan, Combining Military Professionalism, Technological Mastery of
Nuclear Weapon Systems, and Diplomacy: General-Colonel V.A. Mikhtyuk and the
Decommissioning, Dismantlement, and Destruction of the 43rd Rocket Army
(Nuclear) in Ukraine, 1994-2002
* Lindgjerdet, The Social Preconditions for NetWar: A Historical Perspective
* Kaufmann, Land Warrior: The Reconfiguration of the Soldier in the
Information Age
* Hammond, Robots and the Artistic Imagination: Militaristic Technology as
Subject and Medium
2. Gunpowder (Buchanan)
* Bergman, Poudre B development and production; an historical outline
* Brown, Gunfounding in the early modern era: a global perspective
* B. Buchanan, Pyrotechnics: ŒThe Art of Making Fireworks For Real as Well
as for Triumph¹
* DeVries, Gunpowder and Gunpowder Weapons at the Sieges of Rhodes in 1480
and 1522
* Edmonds, The production of Medieval Saltpetre
* Rae, Gunpowder Manufacture as a Cover for Espionage Š or Fraud?
* Rakoczy, Exploding the myth: Gunpowder and castle destruction in the
English Civil War
* Smith, Sulfur - an experimental approach. Recent work and future
directions
* Wulff, Search for New Technology: Introducing armour in the Swedish armed
forces
3. Globalization and Technology Transfer: the developing countries (Saldana
and Herlea)
* Rabiela, La Madera el Hierro en el Instrumental Agricola Mexicano del
Siglo XVI: Consecuencias Ambientales y Laborales del Contacto Entre el Nuevo
y el Viejo Mundo
* Alvarez-Lires & Perez-Rodriguez, Propuestas de Innovacion en el uso de
³Aguas Calientes² en el S. XVIII Hispano: Su Utilizacion en la Ensenanza de
Las Ceincias
* Kleiche-Dray, Aux Origines de la Fonction d¹ingienieur au Maroc : La
Recomposition des Systemes d¹irrigation ³Traditionnels²
* Alvarez and Saldana, Factores Locales en la Transferencia de Tecnologia:
El Caso de la Producción de Esteroides en Mexico
* Cervantes and Saldana, Surgimiento y Desarrollo de la Tecnología de la
Pigmentacion del Pollo de Engorda en Mexico (1960-1970)
* Martin-Frechilla, El Exilio Como Transferencia: El Caso de la Guerra Civil
Espanola y el Dispositivo de Salud Publica Venezolano 1936-1958
* Cuvi, Las Misiones de la Cinchona en America Latina Durante la Segunda
Guerra Mundial
* Candiani, Frustrated innovators: royal military engineers in colonial
Mexico¹s Desagüe de Huehuetoca and the impediments to technological change
* Jonsson & Ramirez, What Has Made It Possible for Man and Economy to go
Global? In Fact, Not only the Technological Breakthroughs
* Manea, The transfer of the radio-diagnostic and radio-therapy technology
in Romania from the end of the 19th Century on
4. From the Ivory Tower to the Gallery Floor, or Does technology drive
history, and where can I change baby¹s nappies? (Albert)
* Albert, Interpreting the maritime as history of technology
* Insley, Little Landscapes - A long look at 20th century arable farming in
the UK, and its portrayal in the Science Museum, London
* Russell, Mind the Gap: Interpreting the history of technology in museums
* Peavitt, Why irons are useful and sugar tongs are not
5. Gender & Technology in Everyday Life (Myllantaus)
* Laiho-Suominen, Hairdressing Trade and Its Professional Technology in
Finland, 1920 1939
* Försti, Automobility & Gender in Finland in the 1920s
* Terho, ³Every Modern Woman has a Driving License!² - Domesticating the Car
by Finnish Women, 1950 - 1970
6. Technological Infrastructure and the Process of Innovation (Bluma &
Bauer)
* Bauer, Innovation within an ³Old² System De- and Re-Stabilization of the
³Steam-Railway-System² in Germany in the Inter-War Era
* Bluma, Heavy snowfall, elephants, sabotage and other little incidents. The
role of incident-innovations for the evolution of the telephone system
* Dienel, From Ship to Airplane: Modal Shift on the Atlantic, 1945-1980
* Dittmann, Innovations in power supply systems
* Hascher, Freight Transport in the Underground a failed innovation?
* Lotysz, Who Immersed the Tunnel: the Early 19th Century Pioneers of Modern
Technology
* Fridlund, The Contradictions of ³Corporate Luddism²: Resistance to Radical
Technological Innovation during the Third Industrial Revolution
7. Sound and Technology (Braun)
* Braun, All Ears: Sound Studies. Were Are We; Were Could (Should) We Go
From Here?
* Ampuja, Modern Soundscape the Target of Systematic Interventions?
Notices about Noise Control in the City of Helsinki, Finland, 19502002
* Zimmerman, The Aesthetic Relation of Electric Instruments and Technology
* Cloud, The Theory and the Bombs: the Discovery of the Deep Sound Channel
of the Oceans
* Horning, Manipulative Women: A Brief History of Women in Sound
Engineering. From the Phonograph to the Control Room
* Wittje, The rise of electroacoustics in Germany during the interwar years
* Millard, Playing at 11: Electronic Distortion and the Sound of American
Popular Music
8. Technology & Social Perceptions (Belot & Lamard)
* Belot, ³Rightwing² and ³leftwing² French technophobic culture : from the
Vichy regime (1940-1944) to certain ecological tendencies of today
* Heberger, French physicians against the engine: Medical suspicions about
technology, 1850-1870
* Lamard, A view of a French-style antagonism: scientific education versus
technological education
* Clark, Science and Technology Education and the Origins of Nerd Culture
9. Information Technology (V. Gorokhov)
* Alexeeva, History of the Problem of Ethical, Cognitive and Social Problems
of the Application of ICTs in Education
* Gang Liu, Philosophy of Information and Foundation for the Future Chinese
Philosophy of Science and Technology
* Gorokhov, Discussions about Information and Communication Technologies in
Russia: the History of Information Revolution in the USSR and modern
* Hauser, The fears and hopes in the history of media technologies and their
impacts on culture
* Kagantchouk, ³Web-Portals for sustainability and environmental management
modern solution considering as example of the Ecoradar Web Portal²
(pending revision)
* Lavroukhin, Historical Development of Information and
TelecommunicationTechnologies in Russia
* Werner, ICT networks in local government: The relationship between
technical and social models for the management of data, information, and
knowledge (pending revision)
10. Aspects of Technological Transfer
* Colan, English Industrial Revolution Conquers France in the Field of
Metallurgy (1750-1830)
* Orlowski, Transfer of technology as byproduct of political events (on the
example of Poland)
* Kunnas, Against the Tide Technology Transfer from the Periphery
11. Tech & Environment - 1 - Revolutions, Rationalizations, & Thinking
* Williams, Rationalizing the Place of Humans in Nature
* Kibel, Technological Worlds
* Niemi & Nordenskiold, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld - Transformer of
Environmental Thinking?
* Bennett, The Last Great Turn in History: The Environmental Revolution
Tech & Environment - 2- Water
* Rammelt & R, The dynamics of technology and society in a development
situation: the case of flood protection in Bangladesh
* Pal, Water supply, waste water treatment and technology change in Hungary
after 1945
* Todd, Building and Maintaining Water Systems in Louisiana and the Ruhr,
1890-1935
Tech & Environment - 3 - Forests & Other landscapes
* Myllantaus, Restoring Forest to its Historical State: A Goal for a
Conservationist and a Venture for a Forester?
* Reynard, Transient Islands: Early-Modern Techniques in a Radically
Unstable Environment
* Canavas, Short-period changes with long-term impact? Medieval
Mediterranean timber revisited
* Warren, The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life
Indoors
* Okada, Asthetic Interpretation of Technoscape
12. Communications
* Litvinko, Becoming of Radio Electronics in Ukraine as the important
component of Technical Revolution in the beginning of XX c.
* Hempstead, Oceanic Cables, 1850-75: Ambitions, Exploration and Culture
* Barton, Transforming Cities or Transforming Communications? : The UK
Electric Telegraph 1850-1857
* Escalante, Tele-colonialism: A Historical Perspective of the Role of
Telecommunications Technology in Caribbean Society
* Calvo, Technological Transfer and Institutional Constraints in the Spanish
Telephone 1924-1945
* Koslowski, Innovation and Utility with Cerent Corporation Transforms an
Industry. A Case Study
* Mägi, Broadcasting as Social and Cultural Factor: Situation in Estonia
between Two World Wars
* Haigh, SHARE and the Origins of Open Source Software: 1954-1972
13. Technical Heritage
* Januszewski, Technical Heritage of Solovetski Islands - research for the
protection strategy
* Rychter, Upper Silesian Hoist Towers in the 19th and 20th Centuries
* Kobayashi, Industrial Tourism and Changing Landscape through Technological
Restorations: Its Real Case and the Orientation to Reorganizing Local Museum
Activities in Japan
* Sonfonea, et al, Ancient Military Technical Systems Studied and Prepared
to be used in Recent Museums Vivum in South Transilvania, Romania
14. La Long Duree & Industrial Revolution
* Weber, ³Industrial Revolution² for more than five hundred years?
* Paulinyi, The Industrial Revolution. Why a technical revolution and not
only³a mass of small-scale improvements³?
* Kaiser, Visualization as a ³Longue Durée² Task of the Engineering
Profession. A Comparative Study into Renaissance Drawings and Models Versus
20th Century CAD/FEM/VR-Methods
* Cordeiro, The Long Durée and the Historiography of Technology
15. Materials
* Atthanayake, Long - term developments in the use of materials Steel
* Lestel, Lead uses and impact in France, 1950-2000
* Rooji, A revolution in materials. The introduction of nylon into the Dutch
hosiery industry, 1945-1970
* Ponomarenko, At the beginning of Cryogenic Technology in Ukraine
16. Engineers & Scientists
* A. Buchanan, I. K. Brunel: International Engineer
* Lewis, An Anglo-French Original: The Automotive and Aeronautical
Engineering Career of Louis H. Coatalen
* Stranges, Key Scientists in the History of Air Pollution: Part II
* Kaataja, Finnish Academic Scientists as Producers of Commercial
Technology, 1900-2000
17. Craftsmen & Engineers
* Edwards, The technical and cultural impacts of plywood technology in
furniture making in the period 1750-1950
* Crosnum, Unlocking the Secret of Greatness: Analyzing the Violin and Bow
* Pauer, From craftsman to engineer The case of Tanaka Hisashige and his
followers in early Meiji-Japan
18. Energy - 1 - Aspects of Electric Power
* De Medeiros, From Electric Lamp to Particle Accelerators: Notes about the
contribution of Electrical Industry to Nuclear Science
* Arapostathis, Morality, Locality and System Building: Consulting
Engineering in the British Electrical Industry, 1880-1914
* Rao, Role of ³Colonized Context² and the Development of Electricity: The
Case of Madras Presidency, 1900-1947
Energy - 2 - Evolutions in Energy
* Tascon, Medieval Water and Wind Power
* Zeithammer, The milestones of steam-engine technology in Central Europe
* Abi Ghanem, Urban sustainability and Renewable Energy Technologies: How
users matter (pending revision)
* Helerea, Technological Energy as a Characteristic of the Complex Technical
Systems: Relevant Examples
* Telento, Contributions of Tesla and other Inventors from Croatia in Energy
Transfromation and Utilisation Systems
Energy - 3 - Oil and Gas
* Movsumzade, The past, the present and the future of oil-field gas ( based
on the example from OAO ³Gasprom²)
* Aliyev, et al., Mathematical methods and information technology in oil and
gas industry
* Molina, From 2001 to 2006: Oil Industry and the Influence in the
Economical Changes and the Technological Transference in the Falcon¹s State,
Venezuela (pending revision)
19. Technology in the Public Sphere
* Poser, Risk-Management in Play and Work at the Turn to the 20th Century
and Nowadays
* Jacobs, Good Bomb/Bad Bomb: American Nuclear Narratives during the
Atmospheric Testing Era
* Segal, The Wave of the Future: High-Tech Utopias and American History
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