FRIDAY AUGUST 18TH MORNING 9:00-11:30

01. Producing Reliability, Reliable Production: Wartime, Cold War, and Industrial Contexts of Technological Dependability
Organizer: Ann Johnson; Chair: Leo B. Slater

Ann Johnson
Overcoming Unreliability and Demonstrating Reliability: Robert Bosch GmbH and the Introduction of ABS

Edward Jones-Imhotep
The Military-Industrial Displex: Cold-War Electronics and the Construction of Reliability

Kristen Haring
No Mere Hobby: Cold War Amateur Radio as a Back-up Communications System

David Crawford Brock
The Reliable Instrument: Arnold O. Beckham, Statistical Quality Control, Spectrophotometry, and World War Two

Commentator: John Krige

02. Decision-Making within System Technologies: Comparative Perspectives on Railway Traction in the 20th Century
Organizer: Colin Divall; Chair: Barbara Schmucki

Guenter Krause
Dieselization in the Two Germanys: A Comparison

Albert J. Churella
The Culture and Technology of Railroad Electrification: Comparisons between U.S. and European Practice

Robert Stuart Lee
Early Railway Electrification in the Asia-Pacific Region: A Comparative Study

Jeffrey W. Schramm
'That Thing Will Never Work on a Real Railroad': The German Diesel Hydraulic Locomotive and the Corporate Culture of the Southern Pacific Railroad

Commentator: Lucy Taksa

03. Gender, Consumption, Technology
Organizer: Martina Heßler; Chair: Stephanie Smith-Divita

Martina Heßler
Male and Female Construction of Femininity. The Introduction of Electrical Domestic Appliances during the Interwar period in Germany

Arwen Palmer Mohun
Lightning Rod Men, Nervous Women, and the Commodification of Risk in 19th Century America

Maggie Dennis
Wrist Computer and Babe Magnet: Masculinity and the Origins of the Digital Watch, 1967-1976

Monika Bernold / Andrea Ellmaier
"Technology shopping" Gendered representations of consuming practices in postwar Austria

Commentator: Joseph J. Corn

04. Work in Progress I
Chair: Philip Scranton

Maria M. Portuondo
La Real Sociedad Económica and the Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to Cuba

Ronald Jager
The Doubled-Bitted Axe in Historical Perspective

Erik van der Vleuten
Conceptualizing the Societal Consequences of the Development of Large Technical Systems: Observations on the Growth of the Food System in the Netherlands during the 20th Century

Commentator: Ruth Oldenziel

05. The Artifacts of Politics: Metaphors and Machines
Chair: Thomas Parke Hughes

Miriam R. Levin
The Origins of Modern Control through Communications

Kai Eriksson
On Communication as a System in the Industrial Age

James W. Endersby / Linda Eikmeier Endersby
Politics and the Machine: Technology as an Agent of Democracy in U.S. Elections?

Jonathan Edward Agar
The Social Body and the Administrative Machine

Commentator: Arne Kaijser

06. Technikgeschichte Lehren (GTG session)
Organizer: Wolfhard Weber; Chair: Wolfhard Weber

Hans-Joachim Braun
Technikgeschichte für Ingenieurstudenten: Erfahrungen und Konsequenzen

Astrid Schürmann
Studiengang Technikgeschichte an der TU Berlin

Andreas Kahlow
Fachbereich Bauingenieurswesen

Friedrich Naumann
Ein Proseminar für Studenten der Fakultät für Informatik

Helmut Lackner
Technikgeschichtliche Lehrveranstaltung an Österreichs Universitäten nach 1945