Preliminary SHOT Conference Schedule

SUNDAY MORNING, 9-12

25. "Finding the Future in the Past? New Questions About the Early History of the Automobile"

Organizer: David Kirsch, Stanford University

Chair: Joseph Corn, Stanford University

David A. Kirsch, Stanford University

"The Other Battle of the Systems: Energy and Transportation in America, 1880-1920"

Gilbert Mom, HTS-Autotechniek

"'As Reliable as a Streetcar,': European versus American Experience with Early Electric Cars, 1895-1914"

Tom Turrentine, UCD

"If You Build Them, Who Will Buy Them?: The Second Coming of Electric Vehicles"

Mikael Hard, University of Trondheim, and Andrew Jamison, University of Lund

"From Alternative to Acceptance or Rejection: The Success and Failure of Diesel and Steam, 1930-1970"

Commentator: Rudi Volti, Pitzer College

26. "Learning from a Policy Fiasco: The SSC as Science Policy,"

Organizer: Steven Weiss, VPI

Chair and moderator: Steven Weiss, VPI

Mary Lee, independent scholar

Michael Riordan, SLAC

Robert Siedel, Charles Babbage Institute

Michael Seltzer, VPI

Sharon Traweek, UCLA

Zuoyue Wang, UCSB

27. Forged by Thor: Nordic Technology

Chair: John James, University of Virginia

Lars Olsson, Chalmers University of Technology

"Engineers as System Builders: The Growth of the Swedish Shipbuilding Industry as a Large Technological System, 1910-1940"

Lars Fuglsang, Roskilde University

"The Construction of Markets for Electricity in Denmark"

Anne Kristine Borresen, University of Trondheim

"Dreams of Steel: The Norwegian Steel Industry, 1946-75"

Commentator: James R. Hansen, Auburn University

28. "Computers in Science and Engineering"

Organizer and chair: Robert W. Seidel, Charles Babbage Institute

Atsushi Akera, University of Pennsylvania

"Young Men's Enthusiasms: Electronics, Engineering, and Computer Education in the 1940s and 1960s"

Anne Fitzpatrick, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Robert Seidel, Charles Babbage Institute

"Computers, Nuclear Weapons, and Science"

Arthur L. Norberg, University of Minnesota

"Engineers Struggling with the Navy to Define Their Role in the Emerging Computer Industry"

Commentator: Paul Ceruzzi, NASM, Smithsonian Institution

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