Preliminary SHOT Conference Schedule

FRIDAY MORNING OCTOBER 20, 9-12

Organizer: J.D. Hunley, NASA
Chair: Linda Neuman Ezell, NASM, Smithsonian Institution
Benjamin S. Zibit, CUNY: "The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech and the
J.D. Hunley, NASA Creation of the Solid Propellant Rocket (1936-46)": "The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Role in American Missile Development"
Michael J. Neufeld, NASM, Smithsonian Institution: "Rolf Engel vs. the German Army: A Nazi Career in Rocketry and Repression"
Commentator: P. Thomas Carroll, RPI

Organizer: Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin
Chair: Ingrid Soudek, University of Virginia
Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin: "Symbols in the Shaping of Technology"
Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware: "Putting Agency and Identity into Cultural Studies of Technology"
Steven Lubar, NMAH, Smithsonian Institution: "A New Look at Technological Artifacts"
Mark Shields, University of Virginia: "Thinking Beyond Artifacts in the History of Technology"
Commentator: Susan Smulyan, Brown University

Chair: Lindy Biggs, Auburn University
Annie Canel and Konstantinos Chatzis, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees: "Changing and Maintaining in the French Steel Industry after World War II: The research and maintanence functions in industrial companies"
Ronald Tarullo, California University of Pennsylvania: "The Bell System: A Survey of Its Early Development, March 1876 - May 1880"
Robert Frost, SUNY, Albany: "The Culture of Technological Practice: Industrial Rationalization as a Blind Alley"
Commentator: Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Organizer: Stuart Shapiro, Open University
Chair: Richard Sclove, Loka Institute
Charles Jacobson, independent scholar: "New Technologies, Old Outcomes: A Historical Perspective on the Shaping of Communication and Media Technologies"
Stuart Shapiro, Open University: "Going to Extremes: The Congelation of Social Relations in the New Information and Communication Technologies"
Heinrich Schwarz,: "Personal Home Pages on the World Wide Web"
Commentator: William Dutton, Brunel University

Organizer: Gregory Field, Thomas Edison Papers
Chair: Brian Balogh, University of Virginia
Howard P. Segal, University of Maine: "David Lilienthal's TVA: Democracy on the March (1944): A Fifty-Year Retrospective"
Gregory Field, Thomas Edison Papers: "Making the Military-Industrial Complex: TVA During the 1940s"
Commentator: Todd Shallot, Boise State University

Organizer: Mats Fridlund, Royal Institute of Technology
Chair: Hikon With Andersen, University of Trondheim
Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Stockholm School of Economics: "Technological Momentum and the 'Natural' Monopoly: Construction of an Automatic Switching Technology and a State Monopoly in Swedish Telecommunications, 1910-30"
Michael Allen, University of Pennsylvania: "'Sweet Machines' for a New Order: The First Large-Scale Concentration-Camp Industries in Nazi Germany"
Mats Fridlund, Royal Institute of Technology, and Helmut Maier, University of the Ruhr, Bochum: "The Second Battle of the Currents: Engineering Nationalism in Swedish and German Electric Power Technology, 1920-1960"
Commentator: Colleen A. Dunlavy, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Chair: John Staudenmaier, University of Detroit, Mercy
Douglas Taylor, RPI: "Nature as Technological Process"
Christopher Eldridge, Lehigh University: "Poisoned Painters: Changing Reactions of Organized Painters to Occupational Lead Poisoning in the Early 20th Century"
Russell Olwell, MIT: "Working on the Bomb: The Experience of Blue Collar Workers at Oak Ridge, 1942-46"
Commentator: Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia

Organizer: Loren Butler, CHEE, Rutgers University
Chair: William Wulf, University of Virginia
William Aspray, CHEE, Rutgers University: "The Early Development of the Microprocessor in Japan and America"
Ross Bassett, Princeton University: "The Challenge of Integration on a Large Scale: Organization and Region in LSI Startups in the Hudson Valley and Silicon Valley"
Loren J. Butler, CHEE, Rutgers University, and Dina Moakley, Rutgers University: "Not in Anyone's Backyard? The Atlantic Generating Station Project, 1971-78"
Hans-Joachim Braun, University of the German Army at Hamburg: "Building the Ceramics Gas Turbine: Government-corporate R&D Programs in the US, Germany, and Japan in the 1970s"
Commentator: Thomas Misa, Illinois Institute of Technology

Chair: Patricia Click, University of Virginia
Jennifer Croissant, RPI: "'The Ladies' Department': Education for women at Rensselaer in the 1830"
Nancy Farm Mannikko, Michigan Technological University: "Brothers Professionally and Socially: The Role of Local Engineering Clubs in America, 1860-1930"
Dmitri Gouzevitch, CRHST: "The Militarized Russian Corps of Civil Engineers in the 18th-19th Centuries"
Commentator: Amy Bix, University of Iowa

Chair: Ron Westrum, Eastern Michigan University
Harold N. Cones, Christopher Newport University, and John Bryant, Oklahoma State University: "The Used Car Salesman and the Accordian Designer: An Alliance That Changed Radio History"
Rayvon Fouche, Cornell University: "The Dark Side of Invention: African-Americans as Inventors in the Late 19th Century - an Inventive Episode During the Career of Granville T. Woods"
Diana Obregon, VPI: "Bacteriological Reductionism, Institutional Dispersion, and Cultivation of Hansen's Bacillus: The Case of a Latin American Scientist"
Commentator: TBA/Australian

Chair: Oliver Zunz, University of Virginia
C. Derek Johnson, Northwestern University: "The Ups and Downs of the Mass-Produced Airplane in America, 1926-1930"
Shelley Kaplan, University of Virginia: "The Annual Model Change in the Household Appliance Industry, 1930-1960"
Lisa Parks, University of Wisconsin, Madison: "Technology in the Twilight: A Cultural History of the Communications Satellite, 1957-1962"
Commentator: Julie Wosk, SUNY, Maritime College

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