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Guide to the Society for the History of Technology Records
Guide to the Society for the History of Technology Records NMAH.AC.0400 Robert Harding and Alison Oswald 1999 Archives Center, National Museum of American History P.O. Box 37012 Suite 1100, MRC 601 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 [email protected] http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 3 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 8 Scope and Contents........................................................................................................ 4 Bibliography.................................................................................................................... 10 Names and Subjects .................................................................................................... 10 Container Listing ........................................................................................................... 11 Subgroup I: General Records, 1956 - 2017........................................................... 11 Subgroup II: Technology and Culture Records, 1958 - 2012............................... 136 Society for the History of Technology Records -
January 2006
Minnesota for supporting our joint SHOT-HSS SECRETARY’S MESSAGE reception, and to the many graduate programs that supported our evening hospitality suite and graduate Hope your new year has gotten off to a good start! student breakfast (see the full list elsewhere in this 2006 is going to be quite some year, with our annual newsletter). meeting scheduled for Las Vegas. I’ve discovered in conversations that people tend to have very polarized feelings about Las Vegas – some cheer, “Wow, Vegas will be neat!” while others grumble, “Oh, I never really wanted to go to Las Vegas.” If you’re in that second camp, SHOT’s 2006 meeting will change the In This Issue way you think of Vegas. Bill Leslie and his local arrangements committee are planning an absolutely fabulous conference, one that will give us a chance to News of Members…….…………………………….3 explore and discuss all the different technologies of Vegas – not just the gaming and surveillance 2006 SHOT Call for Papers…………………………3 technologies, but the urban environment and water management side, the civil engineering and 2005 SHOT Prize Winners………………………….4 architecture history, and much more. Bill’s already started the hard work and taken advantage of local Welcome to Las Vegas...……………………………5 connections to arrange a special reception for us in the antique auto collection, some great tours, and much President's Message…… …………………………..6 more. To learn more about what we have to look forward to in October, please see Bill’s note in this Announcements……………………………………..7 newsletter. Speaking of the Vegas meeting, our call for papers has now been issued – please turn the page for Calls for Papers…………………………………….10 more details. -
Automation and the Meaning of Work in the Postwar United States
The Misanthropic Sublime: Automation and the Meaning of Work in the Postwar United States Jason Resnikoff Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2019 © 2019 Jason Zachary Resnikoff All rights reserved Abstract “The Misanthropic Sublime: Automation and the Meaning of Work in the Postwar United States” Jason Resnikoff In the United States of America after World War II, Americans from across the political spectrum adopted the technological optimism of the postwar period to resolve one of the central contradictions of industrial society—the opposition between work and freedom. Although classical American liberalism held that freedom for citizens meant owning property they worked for themselves, many Americans in the postwar period believed that work had come to mean the act of maintaining mere survival. The broad acceptance of this degraded meaning of work found expression in a word coined by managers in the immediate postwar period: “automation.” Between the late 1940s and the early 1970s, the word “automation” stood for a revolutionary development, even though few could agree as to precisely what kind of technology it described. Rather than a specific technology, however, this dissertation argues that “automation” was a discourse that defined work as mere biological survival and saw the end of human labor as the the inevitable result of technological progress. In premising liberation on the end of work, those who subscribed to the automation discourse made political freedom contingent not on the distribution of power, but on escape from the limits of the human body itself. -
AWARDS ANNUAL MEETING St
2018 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY AWARDS ANNUAL MEETING st. louis, missouri 11-14 october CONTENTS Society for the History of Technology. 2 2018 Prize Committees .................................................... 3 Awards .................................................................. 9 Previous winners .......................................................... 23 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY President John Krige Georgia Institute of Technology Vice President Tom Misa University of Minnesota Secretary Jan Korsten Foundation for the History of Technology Treasurer Richard Hirsh Virginia Tech Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Moon University of Oklahoma 2 SHOT Awards 2018 2018 PRIZE COMMITTEES NASA Fellowship The NASA Fellowship in the History of Space Technology, offered by SHOT and supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) History Division, funds either a predoctoral or postdoctoral fellow for up to one academic year to undertake a research project related to the history of space technology. The fellowship supports advanced research related to all aspects of space history, leading to publications on the history of space technology broadly considered, including cultural and intellectual history, institutional history, economic history, history of law and public policy, and history of engineering and management. In 2017 SHOT, the History of Science Society (HSS), and the American Historical Association (AHA) brought their NASA Fellowship Committees together. Each society continues to award a NASA Fellowship, but a committee consisting of one member from each organization will determine the winners of the three fellowships. Angelina Callahan, Naval Research Laboratory – committee member on behalf of SHOT Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship This award is in memory of the co-founder of the Society, and honors Melvin Kranzberg’s many contributions to developing the history of technology as a field of scholarly endeavor and SHOT as a professional organization. -
AWARDS ANNUAL MEETING Milano 24-27 October
2019 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY AWARDS ANNUAL MEETING milano 24-27 october www.historyoftechnology.org In 2020 the SHOT Annual Meeting takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA), 7-11 October. CONTENTS Society for the History of Technology. 2 2019 Prize Committees .................................................... 3 2019 Awards and Fellowships ............................................... 9 Awards, Grants and Fellowships Special Interest Groups .......................... 22 Previous winners .......................................................... 25 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY President Tom Misa University of Minnesota Vice President Arwen Mohun University of Delaware Secretary Jan Korsten Foundation for the History of Technology Treasurer Amy Bix Iowa State University Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Moon University of Oklahoma 2 SHOT Awards 2019 2019 PRIZE COMMITTEES Leonardo da Vinci Medal The highest recognition from the Society for the History of Technology is the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, presented to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the history of technology, through research, teaching, publication, and other activities. Andras Beck (formerly of the Hungarian Academy of Arts) designed the medal, the face of which shows Leonardo’s head modeled after the artist’s self-portrait. The reverse design shows (in the words of the sculptor) “the basic sources of energy: water, wind, and fire.” A certificate accompanies the medal. John Krige (Chair), Georgia Institute of Technology Jennifer Alexander, -
New Technologies and Their Role in Australia's Security, Cultural, Democratic, Social A
At last – a narrative for Australia For many years we have debated where we are heading as a nation. We have been fortunate to have had a relatively prosperous and happy existence and tend to think that this is a direct result of our abundance of minerals and our agricultural production. While our prosperity has been dependent on resources it has only worked because we have been world class in our production techniques and the technology and scientific research that sits behind them. Make no mistake, Australia is not alone in having huge quantities of iron ore: Brazil has just as much and it is generally higher grade. We compete against the world for our economic success. But what of the future? We seem to have no clear narrative other than that as a small nation we must compete against the rest of the world. And the future can be frightening when one notes the way technology is utterly changing the landscape. Some of the wilder predictions suggest that by 2030, 80% of all jobs will be in firms or institutions that don’t exist now. Aviva Rutkin writing in the MIT Technology Journal1 on the jobs of the future suggested that around half of all currently existing jobs in the USA would be automated by 2030. The good news of course is that while technology is destroying jobs it is also creating jobs. Our narrative then is clear: we must pursue innovation through technology as the main contributor to our future prosperity and happiness. The new jobs generated will allow us to compete with the world. -
03/Post/Final Pass
“A Very Special Relationship” SHOT and the Smithsonian’s Museum of History and Technology ROBERT C. POST Synergism: Cooperative action of discrete agencies . such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the two or more effects taken independently. —Webster’s Third New International Dictionary Friday, 23 May 1958, a fair spring day in Cleveland. The Plain Dealer head- lined the accidental explosion of eight Nike missiles at Middletown, New Jersey, with a death toll of seven or more. Editorially it lamented “Soviet Russia’s present leadership in the field of rocketry,”and a news item quoted a man identified as “America’s chief tracer of unidentified flying objects” on the danger of withholding UFO information from the public: “Russia might claim flying saucers as a propaganda ‘secret weapon’ at any time.” There was a story on the impending demise of the three-cent stamp, and Dr. Post held various jobs at the National Museum of History and Technology/Museum of American History from 1971 to 1996. From 1974 to 1978 he was special assistant to Brooke Hindle, to whose memory he dedicates this article with gratitude for friendship and support, and, not least, for the title. Post writes: “For help with my research, thanks to Bruce Kirby and LaNina Clayton at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and Rob Harding and John Fleckner at the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, intrepid guardians of the SHOT legacy. Thanks also for guidance, support, or criticism to Ron Becker, Silvio Bedini, Barney Finn, Robert Friedel, Morrell and Barbara Heald, Ben Lawless, Miriam Levin, Art Molella, Bob Multhauf, Alex Roland, Joe Schultz, Bruce Seely, John Staudenmaier, Carlene Stephens, Jeffrey Stine, Eugene Uyeki, Robert Vogel, Jack White, Rosalind Williams, and especially to Dian Post. -
1 Introduction: a New Instrument
Notes 1 Introduction: A New Instrument 1. For more on the links between early modern technology and the rise of moder- nity see Philip Brey, “Theorizing Modernity and Technology,” in Modernity and Technology, ed. Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey, and Andrew Feenberg (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2003), 33–71; Robert Friedel, A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 2007), 1–11. 2. Greenblatt himself claims that the “unmooring” of identity that took place during the first decades of the sixteenth century was rooted in “momentous changes in the material world” such as “a sharp population increase, the growth of cities, the first stages of an ‘agrarian revolution,’ the rapid expansion of certain key industries,” and “the realignment of European-wide economic forces.” Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 88. For more on these cultural changes see Lawrence Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529–1642 (New York: Harper & Row, 1972). My focus in this study is on Europe, but for the sake of comparison it is worth noting that non-European research also tends to emphasize broadly based cul- tural and sociological factors. Karl Wittfogel has proposed that the rise of individ- ualism took place primarily in “hydraulic societies” or “irrigation civilizations” such as China and Mesopotamia because they needed “[p]owerful, even despotic, systems of government and bureaucracy . to plan, implement, and maintain the large-scale irrigational works.” According to this theory, “the idea of the ‘individ- ual’, could only have taken place within the ‘technological polity’ of the hydrau- lic or irrigation society.” Peter F. -
1988 Fall – Dunlavy
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History Semester I, 1988-89 History 901 Prof. Dunlavy READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY This seminar is intended to acquaint students with the major issues that have occupied historians of technology in recent years and to provide an introduction to recent research. The emphasis is not on the "nuts and bolts" of American technology development; students pursuing their own research in the history of technology, as a rule, acquire the necessary "hardware" knowledge on their own. Instead, we will focus a) on the forces that have shaped the direction of technological change in the 19th and 20th centuries and b) on the socio-political consequences of technological change . As a secondary goal, the seminar is designed to hone analytical skills . The weekly reading load has been kept to a minimum for two reasons. First, most of the assigned readings consist of essays or chapters from larger works rather than entire books, and making sense of this kind of reading necessarily demands more of the reader. Second, all students will be required to make sense of the readings--by writing a brief analysis of the readings each week (more below). You should therefore expect to do all of the assigned reading each week, to give it a close reading, and then to spend some time pulling together a succinct but comprehensive evaluation. Course Requirements. Each student will be required to lead class discussion once during the semester, and all students will be required to write a brief analysis of the assigned readings each week (ca. -
Martha Trescott Prize Ruth Schwartz Cowan (Chair), University of Pennsylvania Janet Abbate, Virginia Tech Adelheid Voskuhl, University of Pennsylvania
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2020 SHOT 2020 VIRTUAL FORUM – 8-10 OCTOBER 2020 TABLE OF CONTENTS - Award and Fellowship Committees - 3 - 2020 SHOT Awards and Fellowships - 5 SHOT Awards and Fellowships 2020 – page 1 – revised version 11 October 2020 2020 AWARD AND FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEES Leonardo da Vinci Medal John Krige (Chair), Georgia Institute of Technology Robert Bud, Science Museum London Angelina Callahan, Naval Research Laboratory Edward Jones Imhotep, University of Toronto Monique Laney, Auburn University Mar Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology Sabine Höhler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Paul Israel, Rutgers University Patrick McCray, University of California – Santa Barbara Maria Portuondo, Johns Hopkins University Ruth Schwartz Cowan, University of Pennsylvania Erik Rau, Hagley Museum and Library Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship Sabine Höhler (Chair), KTH Royal Institute of Technology Babak Ashrafi, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Glenn Bugos, Moment LLC Joy Rohde, University of Michigan Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship Monique Laney (Chair), Auburn University Hyungsub Choi, Seoul National University Eric Schatzberg, Georgia Institute of Technology AHA NASA Fellowships Angelina Callahan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory – committee member on behalf of SHOT SHOT Awards and Fellowships 2020 – page 2 – revised version 11 October 2020 Bernard S. Finn IEEE History Prize (formerly IEEE Life Members’ Prize in Electrical History) Paul Israel (Chair), Rutgers University Paul Ceruzzi, Smithsonian, National -
Confronting the Second Deep Transition Through the Historical Imagination1
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Sussex Research Online Confronting the Second Deep Transition through the Historical Imagination1 Johan Schot Professor of History of Technology and Sustainability Transitions & Director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Leonardo da Vinci Address, published in Technology and Culture, volume 57, no 2, April 2016, pp. 445-456 I have travelled many disciplines. From history of technology, science and technology studies, transport history, Dutch history, history of Europe, a bit of global history, sustainable development studies, to mobility studies, I also worked with policy-makers and other stakeholders in fields such as innovation policy, technology assessment, and greening of industry. Yet my home is history, in particular history of technology, and the Society for the History of Technology provides the space where I can meet friends driven by a similar love for the history of technology. I feel therefore privileged and honoured to be awarded the Leonardo da Vinci medal. It feels like a recognition from my soul mates, which is important precisely because I so often travel far away from my roots, and then wonder whether historians of technology would still accept me when I come back. Why is history of technology my home? The short answer is that I value the historical imagination beyond anything else. As I will argue below, it is this imagination that is crucially important for many actors in the world confronting the next Deep Transition.2 Here I am building on the notion of the Great Transformation a phrase made famous by Karl Polanyi.3 History allows me to travel through time and space, to new worlds and to enjoy often amazing experiences. -
Confronting the Second Deep Transition Through the Historical Imagination
Confronting the second deep transition through the historical imagination Article (Accepted Version) Schot, Johan (2016) Confronting the second deep transition through the historical imagination. Technology and Culture, 57 (2). pp. 445-456. ISSN 0040-165X This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/61333/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher’s version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse: Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University. Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available. Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Confronting the Second Deep Transition through the Historical Imagination1 Johan Schot Professor of History of Technology and Sustainability Transitions & Director of the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Leonardo da Vinci Address, published in Technology and Culture, volume 57, no 2, April 2016, pp.