iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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T201. History of technology
Wed 24 July, 09:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214
T201-A. Ships
Wed 24 July, 09:10–10:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214
Chair: Neil Brown | Independent scholar, United Kingdom
Paloma de La Vallée Poussin | Université Catholique de Louvain , Belgium
Scientia navalis – Modern mechanics applied to ships
Scientia navalis: la mécanique moderne appliquée au navire
Weiqiang Zhou | National Palace Museum, Taiwan
同安船與清代中期的海防
The Tongan-style warship and coastal defense before the Opium War
Aleš Materna | UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA, Czech Republic
Patents, licenses and new technologies applied in the ship production of the Vitkovice Mines, Steel and Ironworks Corporation for the Austro-Hungarian Navy, 1891-1914
John Laurence Busch | Independent Historian, United States
‘It would have been thought chimerical’: testing first-generation steamboats, water by water
T201-B. Aeronautics and infrastructures
Wed 24 July, 11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214
Chair: Jon Agar twitter | University College London, United Kingdom
Takehiko Hashimoto | University of Tokyo, Japan
Research on the boundary layer and the invention of the laminar flow airfoil in Japan and the United States, 1930-1945
Gordon Dadswell | University of Melbourne, Australia
Wooden propellers: the de Havilland Aircraft Company and Australian wood science, a symbiotic relationship
Michael Kay | University of Leeds, United Kingdom
The dark side of counterfactual history: reappraising the historiography of early British telephony
Lu Gao | Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences , China
The making of the metropolitan: the sociotechnical development of the Beijing Metro System
T201-C. Knowledge transfer in universities and industry
Wed 24 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.214
Chair: Imogen Clarke twitter | Independent scholar, United Kingdom
Katherine Platt twitter | University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Moving light industry into the north of England: Siemens during the interwar period
Hilz Helmut | Deutsches Museum, Germany
The knowledge base of industrial research: the rise and decline of the industrial library
Laila Zwisler twitter | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
University-industry transfer: the cases of indoor climate technology and Möesbauer spectroscopy
Johannes-Geert Hagmann | Deutsches Museum, Germany
From Leipzig to Harvard: knowledge transfer in early UV spectroscopy
Location: University Place 4.214
Part of: University Place