Looking Back, Looking Beyond: The 50th Anniversary of SHOT

Below is a list of abstracts of papers accepted for the Washington meeting. Click on a title to view the text of an abstract, use the search field at right for full-text keyword search.

Abbate, “Proto-feminism and Programming: Gender Politics in Computing Before the Civil Rights Era”
Adams, “R&D or Just D? Modern Industrial Research and the Innovator’s Dilemma”
Akera, “The Origins of Humanistic-Social Education and a Liberal Vision of the ‘Technological University’ at MIT, 1947-1962.”
Alcorn, “Putting the Boy Inventor in his Place: Workshops as Metaphors for Adolescence”
Alic, “The Origins and Nature of the Military-Industrial Complex”
Allen, “Auschwitz and the Triple Helix of Industry, Scientific Community and the State in Nazi Germany”
Anderson, “Challenging the engineering perspective: A new look at the development of the world’s first stored program computer”
Anderson, “Documenting Industrial R&D”
Ardic, “Social Shaping of Technology: The Cell Phone and the Public/Private Distinction”
Augustine, “Red Prometheus: Dictatorship and Industrial Technology in East Germany”
Baesler, “A Technology of Loyalty: The Use of the Polygraph in National Security Agencies, 1948-1988″
Bargheer, “The Play of the Eye: The Tools and Techniques of Natural History Collecting and the Emergence of Nature Conservation in Great Britain, 1870-1930″
Bassett, “Engineering India, Engineering America: Indian Engineering Students at MIT, 1900-2000”
Beauchamp, “Follow the lawyers”
Beauvais, “Miss Daisy driving: an exploratory study of gender in carriages”
Berger, “Young Engineers in Cleveland: Explorations of Popular Culture”
Blanchard, “Global futures: images and mathematical models”
Bobrow, “Lindbergh Mania as Expressed in Material Culture”
Braun, “Giant and Dwarf? The SHOT – ICOHTEC Relationship”
Breckenridge, “Made in America: Progressive Mining Engineers and the origins of corporate capitalism in South Africa”
Bruheze, “Manufacturing Technology: Manufacturing Consumers: The contested making of Dutch Consumer Society in the Twentieth Century”
Brunet and Delvenne, “Providing Intelligence on Technological Innovations in the Framework of Parliamentary Technology Assessment Offices: Looking Back on a 35-Year Evolution”
Bruzelius, “’Near friendly or neutral shores’: The Deployment of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines and US Policy towards Scandinavia, 1957-1960″
Buckley, “The TVA and Regional Planning in Brazil”
Burke, “Emergence, Complexity, Technology: Towards an Anticipation of the Unexpected”
Butler, “What Research? Research What? Changes in Industrial R&D”
Care, “Analog and digital computers in context of use: the computer as a modeling machine”
Choi, “’The Rising Sun of Electronics’: Japanese Transistor Manufacturing in Transnational Perspective”
Cochrane, “Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pilot and Literary Light in Aviation”
Connor, “Weems and Watches: Charles Lindbergh and the Elite of Air Navigation”
Coopersmith, “Creating Fax Standards: Technology Red in Tooth and Claw?”
Cortez, “The Revolt Against Formalism and Verbalism in Professional Teaching Practice— Visual Instruction, Progressive Reforms, and the Emergence of Technology in Education”
Damian, “Visual Clues: Representations of Wooden Boats in Japanese Woodblock Prints”
David, ““Reciprocal Radio Rights, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Communications Technology”
Delve, “Historiography in the History of Computing: New Challenges from Other Disciplines?”
Dillon, “Models – what do engineers see in them?”
DiMoia, “”There Must be Something Wrong with Me”: Thoracic Diplomacy at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957-1967″
Diogo and de Matos, “From France to Germany: The Training of Portuguese Engineers from 1850 to 1950”
Doing, “Implicating Performances of Technological Agency and Epistemology in Engineering Ethics and Sustainable Design”
Dolan, “Forging the Infinite Melody: Hoffmann and the Technology of the Perfect Sound”
Downes, “‘This preamp sounds like nothing!’: The Vacuum Tube in the World of High-End Audio”
Downey, “The Library vs. the Computer: Five Decades of Premature Obituaries”
Downey, “Distance from Manual Labor: Engineering Formation and the Metrics of Progress in England and Great Britain: 1771-1914”
Duffield, “The Effect of the Clean Air Act of 1977 on the Development and Research of Alternative Automobile Engine Technologies”
Dussauge, “Anatomy Remediated: Aligning New and Older Technomedical Gazes”
Edwards, “Ideology and Irony in Technopolitics: Computers and Apartheid Revisited”
Eisler, “Something For Nothing: Fuel Cell Research and Development and the Pursuit of the Efficient Energy Machine, 1945-2000”
Envirotech methods: Looking back, looking beyond?
Fang, “The Lessons of Yesterday Applied Through Instructional Design to Today’s Professional Teaching Practice in the Classroom and at a Distance in Higher Education— Instructional Designers as Performance Consultants”
Finch, “It’s like a child you see being born: landscapes of national progress in Reunion Island”
Finn, “Contribution to the Historiography of Artifacts “
Fischer, “Seeing and Selling the Syringe: Visualizing Scientific Medicine in the Early 20th Century U.S.”
Fisher, “Edwardian Cyberspace: wired and wireless in the age of Marconi”
Fitzgerald, “‘Void of either feeling or ambition’: Worker Fatigue in Southern Textile Mills, 1915-1940″
Fleischer, “Trick and truths: Constructing a garden and examining nature in a 17th century Dutch grotto”
Freed, “The Empire’s New Roads: Colonial Africa and the History of Technology”
Freeze, “Technological Innovation and the Permeable Iron Curtain: How the open-end spinning machine from Communist Czechoslovakia revolutionized the textile world”
Friedel, “Artifacts, Museums, and the History of Technology: A Historiographical Inquiry
Gallo, “The National Science Foundation and the Creation of a Standing Army for Science”
Gangloff, “Medicalizing the Automobile: Hugh De Haven, “Crashworthiness” and the Traffic Safety Act of 1966″
Geoghegan, “Grandfathering Technology: Information Theory and the role of Historiography in Scientific Innovation”
Germuska, “Breakout: Third world licences and r&d in the hungarian military industry in the 1970s and 1980s”
Gooday, “Patently Inapplicable: looking back to the strange debate over technology as ‘applied science’”
Gorman, “STS and the Co-Evolution of Technology and Nature”
Graziano, “The cybernetic imaginary of cellular telephony”
Guigueno, “Burlesque filmmakers (Chaplin, Tati) as historians of technology?”
Guy, “Subjects, Objects, and the struggle for the image in the imperial era in South Africa”
Hadlaw, “From Teakettles to Telephones: Technology, Design, and the Construction of Canadian National Identity in the 1960s”
Hagood, “A History of Nuclear Technology: Looking Beyond the Cold War Paradigm”
Hahn, “The Technological Consequences of Emancipation: Credit and the Calendar of Bright Tobacco Agriculture, 1865-1937″
Haigh, “Open Source Software at 50: Its Corporate and Mathematical Origins”
Harwood, “The Rockefeller Foundation and ‘peasant-friendly’ approaches to plant-breeding in the 1940s”
Hediger, “Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization: Notes on Film and Industrial Organization”
Hemmendinger, “Fifty Years of Programming Languages”
Hiatt, “High Technology in the Jungle: Aviation and the New Civilizing Mission in the Peruvian Amazon Region, 1925-1940″
Höhler, “Biosphere Reserves: Environment in the Age of its Technoscientific Reproduction”
Holbrook, “Tell Me Why I Don’t Like Sundays: Patterns in SHOT Meeting Sessions, 1982 – 2006″
Houltz, “Selling the Moon Camera”
Inkster, “Comparative and Global Reflections on Mindful Hands in Sites of Endeavour”
Jajeśniak-Quast, “East-West Technology Transfer in Iron and Steel Industry during the Cold War”
Jeon, “Bringing the Atmosphere Back: Pilots and Self-Recording Instruments in the U.S. Upper-Air Observation, 1920-1940.”
Jim, “Villains and Heroes: The Racial and Gender Construction of Building Wreckers”
Johnson, “Evolving Standards of Engineering Education and the Meaning of Degrees, 1870-1900”
Johnson, “From Here to 2020: Policy Makers’ Visions of the Future”
Jones, “Pipeline Power: The Tide-Water Pipeline and American Energy Infrastructure”
Jørgensen, “‘Feel the Volcanicity!’ The Imagined Landscapes of Bottled Water”
Kaiserfeld and Lundin, “Separate Summer Homes: Scandinavian Leisure Consumption and Its Ideologies during the Short 20th Century”
Kammerer, “The Digitalization of the Mobile Phone – Standardization and Learning Processes Towards a Global Mobile Phone Network”
Khumalo, “’Warm oneself at the society of men, and women:’∗ Reconfiguring the idea of Ibandla in 19th century Natal and Zululand”
King, “Technology, Ethics and Social Accountability Then and Now {Roots in Martin Heidegger}”
Kinney and Meyer, “Aviation History in the Wider View: An Update”
Kita, “From Technological Mimesis to Creativity: Early Online Rail Reservations in Japan”
Knowles, “A Unity of Risks: Educating the Hazards Engineer in Postwar America”
Koblentz, “Bridging the gap between historians and hobbyists in the history of technology”
Kovarki, “Special Motives: Automotive Inventors and Alternative Fuels in the 1920s”
Kumar, “Envisioning a Rothamsted in the East: Agricultural Science and the Discourse of Modernity in Late Colonial India”
Lagendijk, “Myths of Kaprun: Material visions of Europe through rotating lenses of technology”
Landa, “Growing, Glowing, Gone: The Rise and Fall of the American Radium Industry”
Lane, “Living in a Material World: Artificial Silk and the Fashioning of Modernity in Interwar Germany”
Laprise, “Kissenger’s Information Automation Project: Early White House Computer Adoption 1969-72″
Lassman, “Rethinking the History of Military R&D during the Cold War: Technology Transfer and the Role of Research and Development in the U.S. Army’s Manufacturing Arsenals, 1945-75″
Leem, “Light-Touched-Bodies, It’s Natural! Medical Skin Care Technologies in Korea”
Levine, “Big Men in a Little Box: Wilbur O. Atwater’s research on the study of food calories in the United States and the use of prescriptive diet, 1870-1900″
Levy, “Public Secrets”
Luckin, “Medicine, the Law, and Road Traffic Fatalities in Britain, 1945–70″
Lucsko, “The Look, The Sound, The Feel: Getting the Hot Rod Right, 1945–1955”
Luppicini, “The Advent of a Science of Knowledge Systematically Applied to Instruction and Professional Practice— The Emergence of Instructional Design and Distance Education”
Maat, “Facing the ecology of Green Revolution rice. The controversy around the System of Rice Intensification and its consequences for future rice improvement strategies”
Mack, “The USDA Forest Service Restoring Historic Ecosystems: The Savannah River Site”
Macleod, “Frozen in time: British heroes of invention”
Mahadevan, “The Uses of Obsolescence: Film and Photography in India”
Mahoney, “The Many Histories of Computing”
Maines, “Hedonizing Technologies, or Why Tatting and Cake Decorating are Like Ham Radio and Paintball”
Malone, “Creating New Nature: Engineered Wetlands”
Männistö, “The bicycle in the forest: Self-made bicycles in the Finnish countryside 1880-1910″
Manufacturing Industry within Spectacle Societies: The Implications for Visual Representation
Martello, “Educating the ‘Whole’ Engineer: Present-Day Interdisciplinary Integration of Humanities and Social Science Content in Engineering Curricula”
Mawler, “Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-tech Culture “
McCallum, “Corporate Guns for Hire: The Emergence of the Private Military Firm in the United States 1990-2006”
McCray, “Reconverging Technologies: Space, Nano, and Fountains of Paradise”
McMillan, “Fifty-Plus Years of Amnesia in Computing: The Disappearance and Resurrection of Virtual Machines as a Case Study”
Medina, “Fighting the Status Quo: Marx’s Capital and the Cybernetics of Beer”
Mehos, “Technopolitics of the Quest for Cane: Breeding Sugar Cane Varieties in Hawaii (1944-1960)”
Mendelsohn, “Legal Construction of Air as a Preliminary to State Technological Systems: Public Health and Agriculture, 1865-1930″
Meyer, “Beyond Computer Exceptionalism: Open Source Aeronautics Before 1903″
Mitcham, “A Historico-Ethical Perspective on Engineering Education”
Mody, “Crazy or Brilliant or …? Molecular Electronics and the Interpretive Flexibility of Personality”
Mohun, “Inscribed on the Body: Reading Industrial Disabilities in the Age of Kafka and the Wizard of Oz”
Moodie, “Getting The Gold Out of the Ground: Social Constraints and Financial Limitations on Technical Capacity in South African Deep-Level Mining”
Morton, “Magic and the History of Technology”
Mukerji, “The Mindful Hands of Peasant Women: Design of the staircase lock at Fonseranes for the Canal du Midi”
Munday, “STS and Environmental History as a Foundation for Environmental Activism”
Myllyntaus, “Switching to a Biofuel in the Pinch: Wood Gas in Finnish Automobile Traffic during World War II”
Neeley, “Kranzberg’s Legacy: Historians’ Continuing Role in ASEE”
Nelson, “The Atomic Bomb and the Corset: Foundation Garment Textiles and Technology in the Postwar United States”
Nesselroth-Woyzbun, “An immaterial past: Tracing the discourse of digital history”
Nier, “Instrumentation: Technological Foundations of Truth and Control in Modern Science and Industry”
Nilsson, “Tools of Hegemony: Understanding U.S. Preponderance and Advanced Military Technology Transfer at the Height of the Cold War”
November, “Towards ‘Bioengineering’: Computerization and Futurism at the NIH”
Olley, “Charles Babbage: Famous Object of Neglect”
Olszowka, “A Look at Aviation’s Pioneering Spirit from the Shop Floor: The Ideology of the Aircraftsman, 1914-1934”
Palmer, “Reassessing the History of Soviet Technology”
Parks, “Walking Phone Booths: Public Wireless Telephony in Mongolia”
Paulsen, “Innovating code and coded innovation: A history of user participation and software development in Norway, 1970 – 2005″
Peterson, “E.C. Stakman and the Control of Invasive Plant Disease as a Goal of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agriculture Program”
Petrick, “Savoring Southern Bounty: The TVA, Social Uplift, and the Development of Palatable Frozen Foods, 1930-1950″
Pfatteicher and Lohmann, “Engineering’s Storytellers: 50 Years of the Journal of Engineering Education”
Picon, “Cybernetics, System Theory, Cities and Architecture 1950-1970″
Pietruska, “Literary Technologies and the Policing of Uncertainty in the U.S. Weather Bureau, 1891-1909″
Pinkus, “Engineering Greenspace for Public Health: Frederick Law Olmsted, Urban Parks, and the American Sanitary Reform Movement”
Pope, “Railway Mail Service: A Communication Network on Rails
Quivik, “Engineering Nature: The Souris River and the Production of Migratory Waterfowl”
Rao, “Legal Mechanisms and Technological Determinism: Role of Law in the Expansion of Electricity Network in Madras Presidency, 1900-1947″
Reitman, “Forty Years of Winter Simulation Conferences: Discrete event simulation evolution”
Richardson, “Dixie by Gaslight: Modernity and lighting technology in the Old South”
Rivas, “If Not for the Politicians: The Vision of Panamanian and U.S. Agriculturalists in the Early Cold War”
Roberts, “Generating knowledge and know-how: Dutch-Japanese trade during the second half of the eighteenth century”
Russell, “Organisms and the History of Technology”
Saltman, “Fifty Years of Computerized Voting: Technologies and Institutions”
Saraiva, “Laboratory Cotton Fields: the Center for Cotton Research and the Colonization of Mozambique (1943-1974)”
Schade, “The Ancient Qanat Irrigation Systems of the Western Desert of Egypt”
Schmucki, “Mobility, Identity, Modernity: On the Place of Urban Transport in the History of Technology”
Schoenfeld, “New ‘Tools of Mass Construction’: Thoughts on Do-it-yourself Culture Today”
Schrag, “‘To Punish Them Without Loss of Life’: Gilded-Age Efforts at Non-Lethal Riot Control, 1877-1910″
Seely, “Engineers, Historians of Technology and the Early Years of SHOT”
Shapiro, “Seismic Shift or Shifting Sands? Systems Engineering and the Evolution of Engineering Epistemology”
Shew, “The Epistemic Status of Natural Artifacts”
Simonsen, “Aviation and the rescaling of national territoriality: The European conceptualization of airspace 1910s-1940s”
Slayton, “The Politics of Progress: Computerniks as Activists and Professionals in the era of Vietnam”
Smith, “The Ambivalent Milkshed: African Values and Industrial Pretensions in Postcolonial Ghana”
Spohrer, “The Limits of National Historiography: The Transnational Development of National Public Broadcasting in Interwar Europe”
Steen, “Politics and Technical Expertise in the Government: The U.S. Patent Act of 1952″
Sterling, “Technical Standards and the FCC: Changing Patterns”
Storey, “Guns, Conflict, and Citizenship: A Comparison of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand and Southern Africa”
Storm, “How industry became heritage – articulation and positioning 1955-2005″
Stutz, “´Speer’s Men´: Technical Elites in the Nazi State”
Sundin, “From Waste to Opportunity: Ethanol in Sweden during the First Half of the 20th Century”
Swanson, “Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk: Milk Banks in the 20th Century United States”
Theriot, “The Development and Demise of the Agrifuels Ethanol Plant in New Iberia, Louisiana: Private Initiative and Political Betrayal”
Thomas, “Skin Lighteners as Transnational Technology and Commodity”
Tinn, “The Making of the Do-It-Yourself Computers, Commercial Districts of Electronics Products, and the Popularization of Personal Computers—Exploring the History of Computers in Taiwan from 1970 to 2000″
Tresch, “Love and Industry: The Saint-Simonian Religion of Technology “
Tympas, “Did the computing revolution start after or in parallel to the industrial revolution? Presentations of computing in influential steam and electricity treatises”
Unger, “Politics of the Spokeshave: Living History Museums and Craft Re-Creation”
Van der Linden, “Charles Lindbergh, T.A.T, and the Creation of the U.S. Passenger Airline Industry”
Van Vleck, “The ‘Logic of the Air’: Aviation and the Globalism of the American Century”
Velkar, “Gauging Accurately: Negotiation, Competition and the Standardization of the British Wire Gauge (1883)”
Voskuhl, “Mechanical musicians and the human-machine boundary in the sentimental culture of eighteenth-century Europe”
Walejko, “The Sinking of the Titanic & The Radio Act of 1912″
Washington, “Reflections on the Integrative Historical Scholarship of Environment, Technology and Health Disparities in America”
Whitney, “Cleaning with Coconuts: Plant-based chemistry, ‘green’ consumer products, and environmentalism as technological innovation”
Williamson, “Small-Scale Technologies for the Developing World: Volunteers for International Technical Assistance, 1959-1971″
Wisnioski, “‘Liberal education has failed’: Reading like an engineer in the 1960s”
Wittner, “Imagining the Japanese Nation: Representations of Cultural Pride in Silk Brand Labels”
Wosk, “Imaging Technological Disasters”
Woten, “Navigating Improvement in a Settler Society: Constructing the Des Moines River Improvement Project, 1846-1902″
Yarnell, “Food Adulteration in the Classroom: The Educational Program of the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association”
Yates and Murphy, “The Telegraph and the Emergence of International Standardizing Institutions”
Yeang, “Representing Information with Noise: Constructing the Spread-Spectrum Communications Systems, 1940s-50s”
Yi, “From Laboratory to Factory and Vice Versa: Gift and Commodity in Biomedical Materials Exchange and Production at the New England Enzyme Center, 1962-1980″
Young, “Quantitative Common Sense’ in the Department of Defense, 1961-69″
Zeller, “Landscapes of Envirotech”
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