Session 1 (Friday, October 19, 2007, 8:30–10:00 am)
1. “Engineering” SHOT: The Past and Present Relationship between the Historians of Technology and Engineers
Chair: Gary Downey, Virginia Tech
Organizers: Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Bruce Seely, Michigan Tech
Comment Gary Downey, Virginia Tech
Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher, University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Jack Lohmann, Georgia Tech: “Engineering Storytellers: 50 years of the Journal of Engineering Education”
Bruce Seely, Michigan Tech: “Engineers, Historians of Technology and the Early Years of SHOT”
Kathryn Neeley, University of Virginia: “Kranzberg’s Legacy: Historians’ Continuing Role in ASEE”
2. A Feeling for the Machine: Technology and Affect in Europe, 1750–1830
Chair: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina
Organizer: Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University
Comment: The audience
Adelheid Voskuhl, Harvard University: “Mechanical Musicians and the Human-machine Boundary in the Sentimental Culture of Eighteenth-century Europe”
Emily Dolan, University of Pennsylvania: “Forging the Infinite Melody: Hoffmann and the Technology of the Perfect Sound”
John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania: “Love and Industry: The Saint-Simonian Religion of Technology”
3. Alternative and Failed Technologies
Chair: Kevin Duffield, North Carolina State University
Organizer: Kevin Duffield, North Carolina State University
Comment: Anne Greene, University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Duffield, North Carolina State University: “The Effect of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 on the Development and Research of Alternative Automobile Engine Technologies”
Jason Theriot, University of Houston: “The Development and Demise of the Agrifuels Ethanol Plant in New Iberia, Louisiana: Private Initiative and Political Betrayal”
Matthew Eisler, University of Alberta: “Fuel Cells”
4. Common Ground? Perspectives on Integration of STS and Environmental History Thus Far—Roundtable Discussion
Chair: David Nye, Syddansk University
Organizer: Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University
Comments: The Audience
Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland: “Landscapes of Envirotech”
Sara B. Pritchard, Cornell University: “Envirotech Methods: Looking Back, Looking Beyond?”
Edmund P. Russell, III, University of Virginia: “Organisms and the History of Technology”
Hugh S. Gorman, Michigan Tech: “STS and the Co-Evolution of Technology and Nature”
Sylvia Hood Washington, UIC School of Public Health and Institute for Environmental Science and Policy: “Reflections on the Integrative Historical Scholarship of Environment, Technology, and Health Disparities in America”
Pat Munday, Montana Tech: “STS and Environmental History as a Foundation for Environmental Activism”
5. Systems: Engineering, Analysis, and Modeling
Chair: Glen Bugos, Moment LLC
Comment: Paul Ceruzzi, National Air and Space Museum
John Laprise, Northwestern University: “Kissinger’s Information Automation Project: Early White House Computer Adoption 1969–72″
Julian Reitman, Independent Scholar: “Forty Years of Winter Simulation Conferences: Discrete Event Simulation Evolution”
Stuart Shapiro, MITRE Corporation: “Seismic Shift or Shifting Sands? Systems Engineering and the Evolution of Engineering Epistemology”
Stephanie Young, University of California—Berkeley: “Quantitative Common Sense’ in the Department of Defense, 1961–69″
6. Technical Professionals in Modernization
Chair: Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Organizer: Bess Williamson, University of Delaware
Comment: John Krige, Georgia Tech
Bess Williamson, University of Delaware: “Small-Scale Technologies for the Developing World: Volunteers for International Technical Assistance, 1959–1971″
Eve Buckley, University of Pennsylvania: “The TVA and Regional Planning in Brazil”
Darlene Rivas, Pepperdine University: “If Not for the Politicians: The Vision of Panamanian and U.S. Agriculturalists in the Early Cold War”
Session 2 (Friday, October 19, 2007, 10:15–11:45 am)
7. (Post)Cold War Imaginaries: Satellites, Cell Phones, and Nanotechnology
Chair: James Schwoch, Northwestern University
Organizer: Jason Gallo, University of Wisconsin
Comment: Mats Fridlund, Technical University of Denmark
Jason Gallo, University of Wisconsin: “The National Science Foundation and the Creation of a Standing Army for Science”
Michael Graziano, Northwestern University: “The Cybernetic Imaginary of Cellular Telephony”
Lisa Parks, University of California—Santa Barbara: “Walking Phone Booths: Public Wireless Telephony in Mongolia”
8. Breeding the Empire: Agriculture Experiment Stations in Colonial Context
Chair: Jonathan Harwood, University of Manchester
Organizer: Tiago Saraiva, University of Lisbon
Comment: Jonathan Harwood, University of Manchester
Tiago Saraiva, University of Lisbon: “Laboratory Cotton Fields: the Center for Cotton Research and the Colonization of Mozambique (1943–1974)”
Prakash Kumar, Colorado State University: “Envisioning a Rothamsted in the East: Agricultural Science and the Discourse of Modernity in Late Colonial India“
Donna C. Mehos, Eindhoven University of Technology: “Technopolitics of the Quest for Cane: Breeding Sugar Cane Varieties in Hawaii (1944–1960)”
9. Energy of the Past; Fuels for the Future: A Historical Outline of Biofuels in Scandinavia and the U.S.
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Organizer: Timo Myllyntaus, University of Turku
Comment: John Kenly Smith, Lehigh University
Timo Myllyntaus, University of Turku: “Switching to a Biofuel in the Pinch: Wood Gas in Finnish Automobile Traffic during World War II”
Bill Kovarik, Radford University: “Special Motives: Automotive Inventors and Alternative Fuels in the 1920s”
Bosse Sundin: “From Waste to Opportunity: Ethanol in Sweden during the First Half of the 20th Century”
10. Infrastructures and Networks
Chair: Arne Kaijser, Royal Institute of Technology
Comment: Frank Schipper, Technical University of Eindhoven
Christopher Jones, University of Pennsylvania: “Pipeline Power: The Tide-water Pipeline and American Energy Infrastructure”
Patrick Kammerer, University of Zurich: “The Digitalization of the Mobile Phone—Standardization and Learning Processes Towards a Global Mobile Phone Network”
Nancy Pope, National Postal Museum: “Railway Mail Service: A Communication Network on Rails”
11. History Informing Practice: The History of Technology in Engineering—Panel Discussion
Chair: John K. Brown, University of Virginia
Organizer: John K. Brown, University of Virginia
Comment: David Billington, Princeton University; Larrie Ferreiro, Defense Acquisition University; Henry Petroski, Duke University; Walter Vincenti, Stanford University
12. Technological Enthusiasm and the User: Aesthetics, Passion and Innovation
Chair: Merritt Roe Smith, MIT
Organizer: Kieran Downes, MIT
Comment: Joseph Corn, Stanford University
Kieran Downes, MIT: “This preamp sounds like nothing!”: The Vacuum Tube in the World of High-End Audio
David Lucsko, Henry Ford Museum: “The Look, the Sound, the Feel: Getting the Hot Rod Right”
Rachel Maines, Cornell University: “Hedonizing Technologies, or Why Tatting and Cake Decorating are Like Ham Radio and Paintball”
Session 3 (Friday, October 19, 2007, 1:30 – 3:30 pm)
13. 50 years of Computing Historiography
Chair: Christopher Sterling, George Washington University
Organizer: Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Comment: Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Janet Delve, University of Portsmouth: “Historiography in the History of Computing: New Challenges from Other Disciplines?”
Evan Koblentz, Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists: “Bridging the Gap Between Historians and Hobbyists in the History of Technology”
Michael Mahoney, Princeton University: “The Many Histories of Computing”
Allan Olley, University of Toronto: “Charles Babbage: Famous Object of Neglect”
14. Blurring the Boundaries between the Natural and Unnatural (I): Commodifying Nature
Chair: Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland
Organizer: Finn Arne Jorgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Comment: The audience
Finn Arne Jorgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology: “Feel the Volcanicity!’: The Imagined Landscapes of Bottled Water”
Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech: “The Technological Consequences of Emancipation: Credit and the Calendar of Bright Tobacco Agriculture, 1865–1937″
Sabine Hoehler, University of Hamburg: “Biosphere Reserves: Environment in the Age of its Technoscientific Reproduction”
Kristoffer Whitney, University of Pennsylvania: “Cleaning with Coconuts: Plant-based Chemistry, ‘Green’ Consumer Products, and Environmentalism as Technological Innovation”
15. Do it Yourself (DIY)
Chair: Chris Bissell, Open University
Comment: Kristen Haring, Bard Graduate Center
Duncan Fisher, Telford College: “Edwardian Cyberspace: Wired and Wireless in the Age of Marconi”
Tiina Mannisto, University of Turku: “The Bicycle in the Forest: Self-made Bicycles in the Finnish Countryside 1880–1910″
Gard Paulsen, Norwegian School of Management: “Innovating Code and Coded Innovation: A History of User Participation and Software Development in Norway, 1970–2005″
Hong-Hong Tinn, Cornell University: “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″
16. Looking Back by Looking Forward: Futurist Imaginings of Technology
Chair: Hyungsub Choi, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Organizers: Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina; Hyungsub Choi, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Comment: The audience
Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina: “From Here to 2020: Policy Makers’ Visions of the Future”
Patrick McCray, University of California—Santa Barbara: “Reconverging Technologies: Space, Nano, and the Fountains of Paradise”
Cyrus Mody, Rice University: “Crazy or Brillliant or?: Molecular Electronics and the Interpretive Flexibilty of Personality”
Joseph November, University of South Carolina: “Towards Bioengineering: Computerization and Futurism at the NIH”
17. Public Politics of Computing, the: Tacit, Explicit, and Unresolved Commitments
Chair: Nathan Ensmenger, University of Pennsylvania
Organizer: Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University
Comment: Ronald Kline, Cornell University
Rebecca Slayton, Stanford University: “The Politics of Progress: Risk Communication in the History of Computing”
Janet Abbate, Virginia Tech: “Proto-feminism and Programming: Gender Politics in Computing Before the Civil Rights Era”
Paul Edwards, University of Michigan: “Ideology and Irony in Technopolitics: Computers and Apartheid Revisited”
Eden Medina, Indiana University: “Fighting the Status Quo: Marx’s Capital and the Cybernetics of Beer”
18. The Emergence of Educational Technology in North America
Chair: Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa
Organizer: J. Jose Cortez, Syracuse University
Comment: Bryan Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia
J. José Cortez, Syracuse University: “The Revolt Against Formalism and Verbalism in Professional Teaching Practice”
Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa: “The Advent of a Science of Knowledge Systematically Applied to Instruction and Professional Practice”
Bailin Fang, Marshall University: “The Lessons of Yesterday Applied Through Instructional Design to Today’s Professional Teaching Practice in the Classroom and at a Distance in Higher Education
Damon Yarnell, University of Pennsylvania: “Food Adulteration in the Classroom: the Educational Program of the Manufacturing Chemists’ Association”
Session 4a (Friday, October 19, 2007, 3:45 – 5:45 pm)
19. Blurring the Boundaries between the Natural and Unnatural (II): Designing Ecosystems
Chair: Edmund Russell, University of Virginia
Organizer: Finn Arne Jorgensen
Comment: The audience
Pamela Mack, Clemson University: “The USDA Forest Service Restoring Historic Ecosystems: The Savannah River Site”
Elizabeth Malone, University of Maryland: “Creating New Nature: Engineered Wetlands”
Rebecca Pinkus, University of Toronto: “Engineering Greenspace for Public Health: Frederick Law Olmstead, Urban Parks, and the American Sanitary Reform Movement”
Fred Quivik: “Engineering Nature: The Souris River and the Production of Migratory Waterfowl”
20. Technologies of Modeling: Models of Technology
Chair: Amy Dahan-Delmedico, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Organizers: Chris Bissel, Open University; Amy Dahan-Delmedico, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle
Comment: Chris Bissell, Open University
Elodie Vielle Blanchard, Centre Alexandre Koyre: “Global Futures: Images and Mathematical Models”
Charles Care, University of Warwick: “Analog and Digital Computers in Context of Use: the Computer as a Modeling Machine”
Chris Dillon, Open University: “Models: What do Engineers See in Them?”
Antoine Picon, Harvard University: “Cybernetics, System Theory, Cities and Architecture, 1950–1970″
21.The Texts and Contexts of Computer Science and Technology
Chair: Rudi Volti, Pitzer College
Comment: Tom Misa, Charles Babbage Institute
Stuart Mawler, Virginia Tech: “Executable Texts: Programs as Communications Devices and Their Use in Shaping High-tech Culture”
Eva Nesselroth-Woyzbun, Ryerson University: “An Immaterial Past: Tracing the Discourse of Digital History”
Aristotle Tympas, University of Athens: “Did the Computing Revolution Start in Parallel to the Industrial Revolution? Presentations of Computing in Influential Steam and Electricity Treatises”
Chen-Pang Yeang, University of Toronto: “Representing Information with Noise: Constructing the Spread-Spectrum Communications Systems, 1940s-50s”
Session 4b (Friday, October 19, 2007, 3:45 – 5:00 pm)
22. The Green Revolution Reconsidered
Chair: Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh
Organizer: Jonathan Harwood, University of Manchester
Comment: Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh
Jonathan Harwood, University of Manchester: “Rockefeller Foundation and ‘Peasant-Friendly’ Approaches to Plant-Breeding in the 1940s”
Harro Maat, Wageningen University: “Facing the Ecology of Green Revolution Rice: the Controversy around the System of Rice Intensification and its Consequences for Future Rice Improvement Strategies”
Paul Peterson, Clemson University: “E.C. Stakman and the Control of Invasive Plant Disease as a Goal of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Mexican Agriculture Program“
23. New Perspectives on Industrial R&D
Chair: Thomas Theis, IBM
Organizer: Orville Butler, American Institute of Physics
Comment: Margaret Graham, McGill University
Orville Butler, American Institute of Physics: “Research What? What Research? Changes in Industrial R&D”
R. Joseph Anderson, American Institute of Physics: “Documenting Industrial R&D”
24. Artifacts, Museums, Materials, 2: Culture by Design
Chair: Jennifer Levasseur, NASM
Comment: Martina Hessler, University of the Arts and Design, Offenbach
Jan Hadlaw, York University: “From Teakettles to Telephones: Technology, Design, and the Construction of Canadian National Identity in the 1960s”
Yvette Lane, Rutgers University: “Living in a Material World: Artificial Silk and the Fashioning of Modernity in Interwar Germany”
Session 5 ( Saturday, October 20, 2007, 8:30 – 10:00 am)
25. Data: Representation and Collection
Chair: Susan Schmidt Horning, St. Johns University
Comment: Bev Sauer, Georgetown University
Chihyung Jeon, MIT: “Bringing the Atmosphere Back: Pilots and Self-Recording Instruments in the U.S. Upper-Air Observation, 1920–1940″
Keith Nier: “Technological Foundations of Truth and Control in Modern Science and Industry”
Jamie Pietruska, MIT: “Literary Technologies and the Policing of Uncertainty in the U.S. Weather Bureau, 1981–1909″
26. Engineering Education (A): Global Perspectives on Engineering Education
Chair: Steve Usselman, Georgia Tech
Organizer: Atsushi Akera, RPI
Comment: John K. Brown, University of Virginia
Gary Downey, Virginia Tech: Distance from Manual Labor: Engineering Formation and the Metrics of Progress”
Maria Diogo and Ana Matos, Univ. Nova de Lisboa: “From France to Germany: The Training of Portuguese Engineers from 1850 to 1950″
Park Doing, Cornell University: “Implicating Performance of Technological Agency and Epistemology in Engineering Ethics and Sustainable Design”
27. History of Technology and the History of Africa (A): Making Africa, Making Technology: the Complexity of Social and Technological Systems in the History of Africa
Chair: Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan
Organizers: Keith Breckenridge, Univ. KwaZulu-Natal; Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan
Comment: Nina Lerman, Whitman College
Tim Burke, Swarthmore College: “Emergence, Complexity, Technology: Towards an Anticipation of the Unexpected”
Thomas Dunbar Moodie, Hobart & William Smith Colleges: “Getting the Gold Out of the Ground: Social Constraints and Financial Limitations on Technical Capacity in South African Deep-Level Mining”
Bill Storey, Millsaps College: “Guns, Conflict and Citizenship: A Comparison of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand and Southern Africa”
Keith Breckenridge, Univ. KwaZulu-Natal: “Made in America: Progressive Mining Engineers and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism in South Africa”
28. Marketing Medicine
Chair: Karen Zachmann, Carnegie-Mellon University
Comment: Margaret Weitekamp, National Air and Space Museum
Edward Landa, U. S. Geological Survey: “Growing, Glowing, Gone: The Rise and Fall of the American Radium Industry”
Kara Swanson, Harvard University: “Human Milk as Technology and Technologies of Human Milk: Milk Banks in the 20th Century United States”
Doogab Yi, Princeton University: “From Laboratory to Factory and Vice Versa: Gift and Commodity in Biomedical Materials Exchange and Production at the New England Enzyme Center, 1962–1980″
29. SHOT and the Science-Technology Relationship: Responding to Paul Forman’s Critique
Chair: Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin
Organizer: Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin
Discussants: Ronald Kline, Cornell University; Stuart W. Leslie, Johns Hopkins University; Carroll Pursell, Macquarie University; M. Norton Wise, University of California—Los Angeles
Response: Paul Forman, National Museum of American History
30. The Machine and the Body
Chair: Sarah Lowengard
Comment: Martina Blum, Muenchner Center for the History of Science and Terchnology
John DiMoia, Princeton University: “‘There Must be Something Wrong with Me’: Thoracic Diplomacy at Seoul National University Hospital, 1957–1967″
Isabelle Dussauge, Royal Institute of Technology: “Anatomy Remediated: Aligning New and Older Technomedical Gazes”
So Yeon Leem, Seoul National University: “Light-Touched Bodies, It’s Natural!: Medical Skin Care Technologies in Korea”
Deborah Levine, Harvard University: “Big Men in a Little Box: Wilbur O. Atwater’s Research on the Use of Food Calories in the United States and the Use of Prescriptive Diet, 1870–1900″
Session 6 (Saturday, October 20, ,2007, 10:15–11:45 am)
31. A New Look at Weaponry
Chair: Allan Needell, National Air and Space Museum
Comment: Alex Roland
John Alic: “The Origins and Nature of the ‘Military Industrial Complex’”
Sean McCallum, Drexel University: “Corporate Guns for Hire: The Emergence of the Private Military Firm in the United States 1990–2006″
Zachary Schrag, George Mason University: “‘To Punish Them Without Loss of Life’: Gilded-Age Efforts at non-Lethal Riot Control, 1877–1910″
32. Top-Down Innovation: the Government’s Role
Chair: Miriam Levin, Case Western Reserve University
Comment: Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University
Sebastien Brunet, and Pierre Delvenne, Univ. de Liege: “Providing Intelligence on Technological Innovations in the Framework of Parliamentary Technology Assessment Offices: Looking Back on a 35-Year Evolution”
Anders Houltz, Royal Institute of Technology: “Selling the Moon Camera”
Vincent Lagendijk, Eindhoven University of Technology: “Myths of Kaprun: Material Visions of Europe through Rotating Lenses of Technology”
Aashish Velkar, London School of Economics: “Gauging Accurately: Negotiation, Competition, and the Standardization of the British Wire Gauge (1883)”
33. History of Technology and the History of Africa (B): Technologies of the Self and the Other in Colonial Africa: The Technopolitics of Subjectivity in a Colonial Racial Order
Chair: Hakon W. Anderson, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Organizers: Keith Breckenridge, Univ. KwaZulu-Natal; Gabrielle Hecht, University of Michigan
Comment: Rebecca Herzig, Bates College
Vukile Khumalo: “‘Warm Oneself at the Society of Men, and Women:’ Reconfiguring the Idea of Ibandla in 19th century Natal and Zululand”
Lynn Thomas, University of Washington: “Skin Lighteners as Transnational Technology and Commodity”
Libbie Freed, SUNY Potsdam: “The Empire’s New Roads: Colonial Africa and the History of Technology”
34. Inventors, Patents, and the Judgments of History
Chair: Carolyn Cooper, Yale University
Organizer: C. R. Beauchamp, New York University School of Law
Comment: Kristine Bruland, University of Geneva
C. R. Beauchamp, New York University School of Law: “Follow the Lawyers”
Christine MacLeod, University of Bristol: “Frozen in Time: British Heroes of Invention”
Kathryn Steen, Drexel University: “Politics and Technical Expertise in the Government: the U.S. Patent Act of 1952″
35. New and Underutilized Sources of Significance in the History of Technology: Views from the Archives
Chair: Darwin Stapleton, Rockefeller Archive
Organizer: Darwin Stapleton, Rockefeller Archive
Comment: Darwin Stapleton, Rockefeller Archive; Lynn Catanese, Hagley Museum and Library; Ginny Kilander, University of Wyoming; Martin Levitt, American Philosophical Society; Thomas Rosko, MIT Libraries; Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute
36. Setting Standards for Communication Technologies
Chair: Eric Nystrom, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Organizer: Andrew Russell, Johns Hopkins University
Comment: Kenneth Lipartito, Florida International University
Andrew Russell, Johns Hopkins University: “Standardization Across the Boundaries of the Bell System, 1920–1938″
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M: “Creating Fax Standards: Technology Red in Tooth and Claw?”
Christopher Sterling, George Washington University: “Technical Standards and the FCC: Changing Patterns”
Session 7 (Saturday, October 20, 2007, 1:30 – 3:30 pm)
37. Artifacts, Museums, Materials, 1: Museums
Chair: Donna C. Mehos, Eindhoven University of Technology
Comment: Pamela Henson, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Stefan Bargheer, University of Chicago: “The Play of the Eye: The Tools and Techniques of Natural History Collecting and the Emergence of Nature Conservation in Great Britain, 1870–1930″
Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech: “The Epistemic Status of Natural Artifacts”
David Unger, Harvard University: “Politics of the Spokeshave: Living History Museums and Craft Re-Creation”
38. Cold War (A): Technology Transfer
Chair: Jenifer Light, Northwestern University/MIT
Comment: Thomas Sadowski
Thomas Lassman, U.S. Army CMH: “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″
Cristina Nelson, University of North Carolina: “The Atomic Bomb and the Corset: Foundation Garment Textiles and Technology in the Postwar United States”
Mikael Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology: “Tools of Hegemony: Understanding U.S Preponderance and Advanced Military Technology Transfer at the Height of the Cold War”
Jenny Smith, Yale University: “The Ambivalent Milkshed: African Values and Industrial Pretensions in Postcolonial Ghana”
39. “The Mindful Hand”: Rethinking the Historical Relation Between Theory and Practice
Chair: Lissa Roberts, University of Twente
Organizer: Lissa Roberts, University of Twente
Comment: the audience
Lissa Roberts, University of Twente: “Generating Knowledge and Know-how: Dutch-Japanese Trade During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century”
Alette Fleischer, University of Twente: “Trick and Truths: Constructing a Garden and Examining Nature in a 17th Century Dutch Grotto”
Ian Inkster, Nottingham Trent University: “Comparative and Global Reflections on Mindful Hands in Sites of Endeavour”
Chandra Mukerji, University of California—San Diego: “Mindful Hands of Peasant Women, the: Design on the Staircase Lock at Fonseranes for the Canal du Midi”
40. Narratives of Technology
Chair: Darly Hafter, Eastern Michigan University
Comment: Joseph Tatarewicz, UMBC
Bernard Geoghegan, Northwestern: “Grandfathering Technology: Information Theory and the role of Historiography in Scientific Innovation”
Willie Hiatt, University of California—Davis: “High Technology in the Jungle: Aviation and the New Civilizing Mission in the Peruvian Amazon Region, 1925–1940″
David L. Morton: “Magic and the History of Technology”
Anna Storm, Royal Institute of Technology: “How Industry Became Heritage: Articulation and Positioning 1955–2005″
41. Revisiting Debates on Dictatorship and Technology
Chair: Thomas Zeller, University of Maryland
Organizer: Dolores Augustine, St. Johns University
Comment: Michael Neufeld, National Air and Space Museum
Dolores Augustine, St. Johns University: “Red Prometheus: Dictatorship and Industrial Technology in East Germany”
Michael Thad Allen, Georgia Tech: “Auschwitz and the Triple Helix of Industry, Scientific Community, and the State in Nazi Germany”
Scott Palmer, Western Illinois University: “Reassessing the History of Soviet Technology”
Rudiger Stutz: “’Speer’s Men’: Technical Elites in the Nazi State”
42. Visual Culture
Chair: Steven Cutcliffe, Lehigh University
Comment: David Haberstich, National Museum of American History
Michelle Damian, East Carolina University: “Visual Clues: Representations of Wooden Boats in Japanese Woodblock Prints”
Ellen K. Levy, Brooklyn College: “Public Secrets; How Might Art Professionals View the History of Technology”
Sudhir Mahadevan, New York University: “The Uses of Obsolescence: Film and Photography in India”
Julie Wosk, SUNY Maritime: “Imaging Technological Disasters in Photography and Art”
Session 8 (Saturday, October 20, 2007, 3:45 – 5:45 pm)
43. 50 years of Computer Use—Continuity and Change
Chair: Michael Mahoney, Princeton University
Organizer: Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Comment: William Aspray, Indiana University
Greg Downey, University of Wisconsin: “Library vs. the Computer, the: Five Decades of Premature Obituaries?”
David Hemmendinger, Union College: “Fifty Years of Programming Languages”
William McMillan, Eastern Michigan University: “Fifty-Plus years of Amnesia in Computing: The Disappearance and Resurrection of Virtual Machines as a Case Study”
Roy G. Saltman: “Fifty Years of Computerized Elections: Technologies and Institutions”
44. Cold War (B): the Intersection of Politics & Technology
Chair: Hamilton Cravens, Iowa State University
Comment: Kenneth Alder, Northwestern University
John Baesler, Journal of American History: “A Technology of Loyalty: The Use of the Polygraph in National Security Agencies, 1948–1988″
Nils Bruzelius, Royal Institute of Technology: “’near friendly or neutral shores’: the Deployment of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines and US Policy towards Scandinavia, 1957–1960″
James David, National Air and Space Museum: “Reciprocal Radio Rights, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and Communications Technology”
Jonathan Hagood, University of California—Davis: “A History of Nuclear Technology: Looking Beyond the Cold War Paradigm”
45. Engineering Education (C): Why SHOT Exists: “Humanistic-Social” Education and Engineering Curricula
Chair: Ross Bassett, North Carolina State University
Organizer: Atsushi Akera, RPI
Comment: Amy Slayton, Drexel University
Rob Martello, Olin College of Engineering: “Educating the ‘Whole’ Engineer: Present-Day Interdisciplinary Integration of Humanities and Social Science Content in Engineering Curricula”
Matt Wisnioski, Virginia Tech: “’Liberal Education has Failed’: Reading Like an Engineer in the Sixties”
Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines: “A Historico-ethical Perspective on Engineering Education”
Atsushi Akera, RPI: “The Origins of Humanistic-Social Education and a Liberal Vision of the ‘Technological University’ at MIT, 1947–1962″
46. Infectious Enthusiasm: Carroll Pursell and the History of Technology
Chair: Paul Israel, Rutgers University
Organizer: Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware
Comment: Susan Douglas, University of Michigan
Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware: “Inscribed on the Body: Reading Industrial Disabilities in the Age of Kafka and the Wizard of Oz”
Aaron Alcorn, Case Western Reserve: “Putting the Boy Inventor in his Place: Workshops as Metaphors for Adolescence”
Molly Berger, Case Western Reserve: “Young Engineers in Cleveland: Explorations of Popular Culture”
Bernard Jim, Case Western Reserve: “Villains and Heroes: The Racial and Gender Construction of Building Wreckers”
47. Mobility and Modernity: Topics in Transportation
Chair: I. Anastasiadou, Technical University, Eindhoven
Comment: Hans-Ludiger Dienel, Technical University, Berlin
Suzanne Beauvais, Canada Science & Technology Museum: “Miss Daisy Driving: an Exploratory Study of Gender in Carriages”
Amy Gangloff, Mississippi State: “Medicalizing the Automobile: Hugh De Haven, ‘Crashworthiness,’ and the Traffic Safety Act of 1966″
Bill Luckin, University of Bolton: “Medicine, the Law, and Road: Traffic Fatalities in Britain, 1945–70″
Barbara Schmucki, University of York: “Mobility, Identity, Modernity: On the Place of Urban Transport in the History of Technology”
48. Reflections on SHOT
Chair: Howard Segal, University of Maine
Comment: Howard Segal, University of Maine
Hans-Joachim Braun, Universitaet der Bundeswehr Hamburg: “Giant and Dwarf? The SHOT-ICOHTEC Relationship”
Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds: “Patently Inapplicable: Looking Back to the Strange Debate over Technology as ‘Applied Science’”
Dan Holbrook, Marshall University: “Tell me Why I Don’t Like Sundays: Patterns in SHOT Meeting Sessions, 1982–2006″
Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon University: “Technology, Ethics, and Social Accountability Then and Now”
Session 9 (Sunday, October 21, 9:00 – 10:30 am)
49. Borders and Barriers: Transnational Issues of Technological Development
Chair: Christopher Neumaier, Munich Center for the History of Science
Comment: Martin Collins, National Air and Space Museum
Hyungsub Choi, Chemical Heritage Foundation: “Rising Sun of Electronics,” the: Japanese Transistor Manufacturing in Transnational Perspective”
Dorthe Gert Simonsen, University of Copenhagen: “Aviation and the Rescaling of National Territoriality: The European Conceptualization of Airspace 1910s–1940s”
Jennifer Spohrer, Columbia University: “The Limits of National Historiography: The Transnational Development of National Public Broadcasting in Interwar Europe”
50. Legal Systems Shaping Technological Systems, 1850–1950
Chair: David Sicilia, University of Maryland
Organizer: Betsy Mendelsohn, University of Maryland
Comment: Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia
Betsy Mendelsohn, University of Maryland: “Legal Construction of Air as a Preliminary to State Technological Systems: Public Health and Agriculture, 1865–1930″
Y. Srinivasa Rao, Indian Institute of Technology: “Legal Mechanisms and Technological Determinism: Role of Law in the Expansion of Electricity Network in Madras Presidency, 1900–1947″
Rick Woten, Iowa State University: “Navigating Improvement in a Settler Society: Constructing the Des Moines River Improvement Project, 1846–1902″
51. History of Technology and the History of Africa (C) Networks, Flows, Infrastructures: Africa in the World
(See sessions 27 and 33)
52. New Perspectives on Charles Lindbergh
Chair: Dom Pisano, National Air and Space Museum
Organizer: Carl Bobrow, National Air and Space Museum
Comment: Dom Pisano, National Air and Space Museum
Carl Bobrow, National Air and Space Museum: “Lindbergh Mania as Expressed in Material Culture”
Dorothy Cochrane, National Air and Space Museum: “Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Pilot and Literary Light in Aviation”
Roger Connor, National Air and Space Museum: “Weems and Watches: Charles Lindbergh and the Elite of Air Navigation”
Robert van der Linden, National Air and Space Museum: “Charles Lindbergh, T.A.T., and the Creation of the U.S. Passenger Airline Industry”
53. Picturing Tools: Visual Culture, Technology & Public Messages
Chair: Guillaume de Syon, Albright College
Organizer: Guillaume de Syon, Albright College
Comment: Jennifer Alexander, University of Minnesota
Suzanne Fischer, University of Minnesota: “Seeing and Selling the Syringe: Visualizing Scientific Medicine in the Early 20th Century U.S”
Ann Schoenfeld, Pratt Institute: “New ‘Tools of Mass Construction’: Thoughts on Do-it-Yourself Culture Today”
David Wittner, Utica College: “Imagining the Japanese Nation: Representations of Cultural Pride in Silk Brand Labels”
54. The Permeable Iron Curtain: Cases of Innovation and Technology Transfer from East to West in Communist Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary
Chair: Slawomir Lotysz, university of Zielona Gora, Poland
Organizer: Karen Freeze, University of Washington
Comment: Elizabeth Van Meer
Karen Freeze, University of Washington: “Technological Innovation and the Permeable Iron Curtain: How the Open-end Spinning Machine from Communist Czechoslovakia Revolutionized the Textile World”
Pál Germuska, Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: “Breakout: the Third World. Licenses and R&D in the Hungarian Military Industry in the 1970s and 1980s”
Dagmara Jajesniak-Quast, Center for Research in Contemporary History: “East-West Technology Transfer in Iron and Steel Industry during the Cold War”
Session 10 (Sunday, October 21, 2007, 10:45 am – 12:15 pm)
55. “Aviation History in the Wider View” Revisited: An Assessment of the Field
Chair: Tom Crouch, National Air and Space Museum
Organizers: Jeremy Kinney, National Air and Space Museum; Alan D. Meyer, University of Delaware
Comment: David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida; James R. Hansen, Auburn University
Jeremy Kinney, National Air and Space Museum, Alan D. Meyer, University of Delaware: “‘Aviation History and the Wider View’: An Update”
John S. Olszowka, Mercyhurst College: “A Look at Aviation’s Pioneering Spirit from the Shop Floor: The Ideology of the Aircraftsman, 1914–1934″
Jennifer Van Vleck, Yale University: “‘The Logic of the Air’: Aviation and the Globalism of the American Century”
56. Consumers Shaping Technology
Chair: Bryan Pfaffenberger, University of Virginia
Comment: Thomas Brandt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ardic Nurullah, University of California—Los Angeles: “Social Shaping of Technology: The Cell Phone and the Public/Private Distinction”
Adri A. Albert de la Bruheze, University of Twente: “Manufacturing Technology: Manufacturing Consumers: the Contested Making of Dutch Consumer Society in the Twentieth Century”
Thomas Kaiserfeld and Per Lundin, Royal Institute of Technology: “Separate Summer Homes: Scandinavian Leisure Consumption and Its Ideologies during the Short 20th Century”
57. Engineering Education (B): History of Engineering Education in the United States
Chair: Gary Downey, Virginia Tech
Organizer: Atsushi Akera, RPI
Comment: Rosalind Williams, MIT
Ross Bassett, North Carolina State University: “Engineering India: Engineering America: Indian Engineering Students at MIT, 1900–2000″
Carol Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology: “Evolving Standards of Engineering Education and the Meaning of Degrees, 1870–1900″
Scott Knowles, Drexel University: “A Unity of Risks: Educating the Hazards Engineer in Postwar America”
58. Networks of Knowing—Technology Transfer & Open Source Innovation
Chair: William Aspray, Indiana University
Organizer: Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
Comment: David Gugerli, ETH Zuerich
Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee: “Open Source Software at 50: Its Corporate and Mathematical Origins”
David Anderson, University of Portsmouth: “Challenging the Engineering Perspective: A New Look at the Development of the World’s First Stored Program Computer”
Chigusa Kita, Kansai University: “From Technological Mimesis to Creativity: Early Online Rail Reservations in Japan”
Peter Meyer, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: “Beyond Computer Exceptionalism: Open Source Aeronautics Before 1903″
59. Sensing Southern Culture: Sensory History, Technology and the American South, 1800–1960
Chair: Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
Organizer: Gerard Fitzgerald, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Comment: Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
Gerard Fitzgerald, Chemical Heritage Foundation: “‘Void of Either Feeling or Ambition’: Worker Fatigue and Technological Change in Southern Textile Mills, 1915–1940″
Gabriella Petrick, New York University: “Savoring Southern Bounty: The TVA, Social Uplift, and the Development of Palatable Frozen Foods, 1930–1960″
Philip Richardson, University of South Carolina: “Dixie by Gaslight: Modernity and Lighting Technology in the Old South”
60. SHOT and the Visual Documents (Studies): Hot Perspectives and Bad Shots
Chair: Philip Scranton, Rutgers University
Organizers: Alain Michel, University Evry / Cite des Sciences et de l’industrie; and Vincent Guigueno, Ecole des Ponts / Ecole francaise de Rome
Comment: Vanessa Schwartz, University of Southern California, and Vincent Guigueno
Vincent Guigueno, Ecole des ponts/Ecole francaise de Rome: “Burlesque Film Makers (Chaplin, Tati) as Historians of Technology?”
Vinzenz Hediger, Ruhr University: “Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization: Notes on Film and Industrial Organization”
Terry Smith, University of Pittsburgh: “Manufacturing Industry Within Spectacle Societies: The Implications for Visual Representation”
61. Poster Session
Abigail Schade, Columbia University: “A Case of Technology Transfer? Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Western Desert of Egypt”