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

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

(Post)Cold War Imaginaries – Satellites, Cell Phones, and Nanotechnology
(Roundtable) Common Ground? Perspectives on the Integration of STS and Environmental History Thus Far
50 Years of Computing Historiography
A Feeling for the Machine: Technology and Affect in Europe, 1750-1830
Alternative and Failed Technologies
Aviation History in the Wider View” Revisited…An Assessment of the Field
Blurring the Boundaries between the Natural and the Unnatural
Breeding the Empire: Agriculture Experiment Stations in Colonial Context
Energy of the Past, Fuels for the Future: A Historical Outline of Biofuels in Scandinavia and the U.S.
Engineering Education Session A: Global Perspectives on Engineering Education
Engineering Education Session B: History of Engineering Education in the United States
Engineering Education Session C: Why SHOT Exists—“Humanistic-Social” Education and Engineering Curricula
Fifty Years of Computer Use – Continuity amid Change
History Informing Practice: The History of Technology in Engineering
Infectious Enthusiasm: Carroll Pursell and the History of Technology
Inventors, Patents, and the Judgments of History
Legal Systems Shaping Technological Systems, 1850-1950
Looking Back by Looking Forward: Futurist Imaginings of Technology
Networks of Knowing – Technology Transfer & Open Source Innovation
New and Underutilized Sources of Significance in the History of Technology: Views from the Archives
New Perspectives on Charles Lindbergh
New Perspectives on Industrial R&D
Picturing Tools: Visual Culture, Technology and Public Messages
Revisiting Debates on Dictatorship and Technology
Sensing Southern Culture: Sensory History, Technology, and the American South, 1800-1960
Setting Standards for Communication Technologies
SHOT and the Science-Technology Relationship: Responding to Paul Forman’s Critique
SHOT and the Visual Documents (Studies) : Hot Perspectives and Bad Shots
Technical Professionals in Modernization
Technological Enthusiasm and the User: Aesthetics, Passion and Innovation
Technologies of modeling; models of technology
The Emergence of Educational Technology in North America
The Green Revolution Reconsidered
The History of Technology and the History of Africa
The Permeable Iron Curtain: Cases of Innovation and Technology Transfer from East to West in Communist Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
The Public Politics of Computing: Tacit, Explicit, and Unresolved Commitments
The ‘Mindful Hand’: rethinking the historical relation between theory and practice
“Engineering” SHOT: The Past and Present Relationship between the Historians of Technology and Engineers
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