Society for the History of Technology

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The international Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) researches the history of technology, especially in its interrelationships with economy, politics and culture. Based in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at the University of Virginia , SHOT is the first international society for the history of technology . In a sense, it forms the umbrella organization for the various technical and historical communities that are often members of SHOT. To promote the history of technology, the society publishes the quarterly journal Technology and Culture and awards numerous grants , prizes and awards.

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The Society for the History of Technology is a subsidiary of the American Historical Association and was founded in 1958 by the US technical historian Melvin Kranzberg , who also played a key role in founding the sister company International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) in 1968 . The Society for the History of Technology has around 1500 members. The aim of the company is to promote historical studies of technology and the relationship between technology and politics, economy, work, the environment, the public, science and art. It pursues its goal by holding conferences, awarding scholarships and prizes, and publishing specialist journals. It also maintains a worldwide network of scientists to research the history of technology. On its 50th anniversary, the Society held major conferences in Washington, DC and Lisbon . Among the presidents of the society were renowned scientists such as Carroll W. Pursell , Alex Roland and Robert C. Post .

Publications

The main publication of SHOT is the quarterly journal Technology and Culture . The journal, founded in 1958, is dedicated to a variety of humanities and technical disciplines: history, sociology, mechanical engineering, law, architecture, anthropology, economics, philosophy and literature. It features essays and commentary on public affairs related to the interplay of technology and culture, reviews of museums and exhibitions, and around forty reviews in each issue. The journal also regularly deals with a key topic such as water technology in the Netherlands . Technology and Culture has around 1,500 private and 1,000 institutional subscribers.

In addition, the company publishes a quarterly newsletter with current reports on technology-historical topics, congresses and technology historians. Reports on activities, publications and award ceremonies of SHOT are also included in the periodical. The newsletter is available online. In addition, SHOT is in cooperation with the American Historical Association, a series of booklets (booklets) under the title Historical Perspectives on Technology, Society, and Culture out.

Awards and grants

The Society for the History of Technology awards four scholarships and awards nine prizes or awards that cover a wide range of engineering history topics, from outstanding research to the editing of historical texts to museum exhibitions. The society regards the Leonardo da Vinci Medal as its highest distinction . It also offers travel subsidies for attending its general meeting or congresses.

Scholarships

Melvin Kranzberg Dissertation Fellowship
The $ 4,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a doctoral student for the preparation of a dissertation in the field of the history of technology. In 2008, for example, the award went to Robert C. Gardner for his work entitled: Growing Trees in the Sand Hills: The Nature and Culture of a Technological Forest . The award bears the name of the technology historian and SHOT founding member Melvin Kranzberg .

Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship
The $ 10,000 research grant is awarded annually for academic work in the field of the history of technology. The award honors the extensive work of the historian Brooke Hindle (1918–2001) for the Society for the History of Technology.

SHOT-NASA Fellowship
The grant of $ 17,000 is awarded for an academic year in which a pre- or post-doctoral research paper on the history of space technology is to be carried out. The funding is supported by NASA's History Division .

Derek John de Solla Price , 1976 winner of the Leonardo da Vinci Medal

International Scholars
The funding serves the international technical and historical community. In particular, non-US technology historians should be able to participate in meetings and congresses and to participate in the organization of the Society for the History of Technology. In 2008/2009, for example, scholars from India, Chile, Korea and Switzerland were supported.

Honourings and prices

Leonardo da Vinci Medal
The Leonardo da Vinci Medal is the highest honor of the Society for the History of Technology. The medal designed by the Hungarian artist Andras Beck with the portrait of Leonardos is awarded, usually annually, to a person who which has made an outstanding contribution to the history of technology through research, teaching, publication or other activities. The winners included Abbott Payson Usher , Melvin Kranzberg , Joseph Needham , Lewis Mumford , Bern Dibner , Derek John de Solla Price , Otto Mayr and Heinz Zemanek .

Sidney Edelstein Prize
This award consists of a cash prize and a plate engraved with a coat of arms. It is awarded annually for an outstanding scientific work on the history of technology that was published (or translated into English) no more than three years ago. In 1998, for example, Ken Alder received the prize for his work Engineering the Revolution: Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815 ( Princeton University Press, 1997). The award bears the name of the chemist and industrialist Sidney Milton Edelstein (1912–1994), who was an expert in the history of dyes and who founded the award in 1968.

Sally Hacker Prize
This award consists of a cash prize and a certificate. It is awarded annually for exceptional work that has also met with a broad response outside the academic scene and that was published no more than three years ago. In 2005, for example, David Herlihy was honored for his work on the history of the bicycle ( Bicycle: The History , Yale University Press, 2004). The award bears the name of the sociologist Sally Lynn Hacker (1936–1988), who examined, among other things, the connections between technical changes and changes in the social image of sexuality or gender roles .

Abbott Payson Usher Prize
This award also consists of a cash prize and a certificate. It is awarded annually under the auspices of the Society for the History of Technology for the best scientific research on the history of technology from the past three years. The German technical historian Otto Mayr received the award for 1978 for his work Yankee Practice and Engineering Theory: Charles T. Porter and the Dynamics of the High-Speed ​​Steam Engine (in: Technology and Culture 16 1975, pp. 570-602). With the name of the award, the company honors the historian and economist Abbott Payson Usher , who has made a particular contribution to the history of technology.

Joseph Henry , the Society for the History of Technology recognized the publication of his writings with the 2007 Eugene S. Ferguson Prize
Ravensberger Spinnerei , location of the Bielefeld Historical Museum , which in 1995 was the first European museum to honor SHOT with the Dibner Award for excellent exhibitions

Joan Cahalin Robinson Prize
The prize in the form of a donation and a certificate rewards the best or first technical history presentation by a young scientist at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology. For example, Arwen Mohun received the 1989 award for her lecture Women Workers and the Mechanization of Steam Laundries . The award was donated in 1980 by geologist and urban geology expert Eric Robinson in memory of his wife Joan Cahalin Robinson.

Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson Prize
The annual award rewards younger scientists for an original essay that examines an aspect of the history of technology in relation to social and intellectual history . In 1998, for example, Toby Jones received the award for the essay Path to peace? Britain, Technology, and Resistance in Palestine, 1929-1939 . The award was donated by Mark Levinson in 1985 in honor of his parents Samuel Eleazar and Rose Tartakow Levinson.

IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History
The award consists of a $ 500 gift and certificate. Every year it honors the best article on the history of electrical engineering from the previous year. The award for 2002 received, for example, Stuart W. Leslie for the work Blue Collar Science: Bringing the Transistor to Life in the Lehigh Valley (in: HSPS (Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences) 32 2001, pp. 71-113). The eponymous, global professional association Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) bears this award, and SHOT is responsible for its administration.

Eugene S. Ferguson Prize
The award, given every second year, consists of financial support and a combined glass / metal plate. Among other things, it promotes bibliographical, archival and encyclopedic work or translations into the English language with a technical-historical reference. In 2007 the prize was awarded for the publication of the writings of Joseph Henry : The Papers of Joseph Henry (ed. Nathan Reingold (vols. 1–5) and Marc Rothenberg (vols. 6–11)). The award name honors the achievements of the engineering historian Eugene S. Ferguson (1916-2004), who was a founding member and one of the presidents of the Society for the History of Technology.

Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
The annual award, donated in 1984 by the eponymous industrialist and technical historian Bern Dibner , is intended for museums and exhibitions that promote an excellent understanding of the history of technology and industry among the general public and among historians. It consists of a glass plate with a dedication and is also endowed with up to $ 1,000 to enable a museum / exhibition member to travel to the award ceremony at a SHOT banquet. The Society for the History of Technology was the first European museum to award the Dibner Award 1995 to the Bielefeld Historical Museum for its exemplary exhibition of power and steam engines and the world's best representation of industrialization and its social history .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ As of 2009
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  3. ↑ As of 2009
  4. ↑ Technology and Culture, The international Quarterly of the Society for the History of Technology About T&C (English)
  5. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SHOT Newsletter (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  6. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Booklets @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  7. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Booklets, list @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  8. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Awards, Prizes, and Grants (overview of scholarships, prizes and grants) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  9. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Kranzberg Fellowship, description and list of scholarship holders @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  10. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Hindle Fellowship, description and list of recipients @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  11. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The NASA Fellowship @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  12. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. International Scholars (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  13. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Leonardo da Vinci Medal, description and list of the winners @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  14. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Edelstein Prize, description and list of the winners with their publications @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  15. ↑ Sidney M. Edelstein (1912–1994) ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 114 kB) Biography (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / edelstein.huji.ac.il
  16. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Hacker Prize, description and list of the winners with their publications @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  17. ↑ Harvard University Library, OASIS ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sally Hacker, Writings and Biography (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / oasis.lib.harvard.edu
  18. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Usher Prize, description and list of the winners and their publications @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  19. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Robinson Prize, description and list of the winners with their presentations @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  20. ↑ Independent Dance  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Eric Robinson, short biography@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.independentdance.co.uk  
  21. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Levinson Prize, description and list of the winners with their essays @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  22. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The IEEE Life Members' Prize, description and list of the winners with their articles @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  23. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Ferguson Prize, description @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  24. ^ Society for the History of Technology ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The Dibner Award, description and winners (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historyoftechnology.org
  25. ↑ Historical Museum Bielefeld Power and Steam Engines
  26. ^ Bielefeld-Info Historical Museum