Final scientific programme

Location: UI2
Organiser: PC
Chair: Amelia Bonea

1. Contributions of Romanian researchers for obtaining drugs from natural resources

Lecturer Adriana -Elena Taerel
Dr. Emilia Stancu
Professor Ana Carata
Researcher Constanta Rizescu
Ph.D. candidate Mihai Stanescu

2. Changes in e-documentation of the history of medicine in the post-communist Romania

Professor Liliana Rogozea
Ph.D. candidate Florin Leasu
Ph.D. candidate Oana Andreescu
Lecturer Mihaela Badea
Professor Dan Dumitrascu
Professor Angela Repanovici

3. The Infringement of Iron Curtain by the School of Medical Radiology in Iasi, Explained by Socio-Physics Models

Professor Radu Chisleag

Location: UI3
Organiser: Nick Hall
Chair: Nick Hall

1. Closed Circuit Television for the UK Military in the late 1930s

Mr. Norman Green

2. Closer to the action: Frank G. Back and the Zoomar Lens

Dr. Nick Hall

3. Watching the City: The emergence of CCTV in postwar British policing

Ph.D. candidate Ben Taylor

Location: UI6
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Hans-Joachim Braun

1. Designed and Engineered by Politicians? The Iron Curtain as a Filter of Technology Transfer

Professor Timo Myllyntaus

2. The Soviet Forestry in 1953 - 1964: Transfer and Implementation of Western Technologies

Ph.D. candidate Elena Kochetkova

3. Trading with the Ideological Enemies

Dr. Elitsa Stoilova

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Darwin Stapleton

1. Engineering Professors as Entrepreneurs: The Case of Franz Reuleaux (1829-1905) and Alois Riedler (1850-1936)

Professor Wolfgang Koenig

2. Women Transport Engineers in Hungary - Women teachers and students at the Faculty of Transport Engineers of the Technical University of the Building Industry and of the Faculty of Transport Engineering of the Budapest Technical University

Professor Eva Vamos

3. Four science academies makes a lot

Dr. Panu Nykänen

4. A tribute to Maurice Daumas Founding Father of the History of Technology and of the ICOHTEC

Professor Pierre Lamard
Professor Robert Belot

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Mircea Ivanoiu

1. Gheorghe Asachi (1788-1869) in the Romanian culture and engineering

Professor Eufrosina Otlacan

2. Henri Poincaré at Resita, between science and technology

Researcher Magdalena Stavinschi
Professor Andrei Vasilescu

3. The De-Industrialization of the Republic of Moldova after the Fall of Communism (1991)

Researcher Dorin Dusciac

4. The Romanian agriculture and viticulture after the fall of Communism. The example of the Domain of the Crown in Segarcea

Mr. Mihai Anghel

Location: UI3
Organiser: Barton Hacker
Chair: Ciro Paoletti

1. Between Religion, Weapons and Power: Armed Priests in Latin America 1800- 1850.

Graduate student Juan Adriano Chumpitaz Fernandez

2. “Hybrid Warfare:’ the Progression of Technological Supplantation of European War Horses in the Development of Total War, 1850-1950”

Graduate student Chelsea Medlock

Location: UI6
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Timo Myllyntaus

1. Technological development of Finnish shipbuilding: From a contractor to Russia to a constructor for the Soviet, 1900-1960

Ph.D. candidate Aaro Sahari

2. The Business of Foreign Affairs Unrealized visions of joint business, technology and politics in Finnish-Soviet shipbuilding at the end of the Cold War

Ph.D. candidate Saara Matala

3. Missed Transfer Chance. Early outsourcing of truck transport in Russia and East Germany in the 1950s had no followers in the West

Professor Richard Vahrenkamp

4. International Truck Transport during the Cold War

Lecturer Emiliya Karaboeva

Location: UI7
Organiser: Artemis Yagou
Chair: Patryk Wasiak

1. Playful technology in a box: Construction sets and their packaging as symbols of technological transition

Dr. Artemis Yagou

2. The all-electric kitchen as symbol of modern housekeeping and technological progress in Germany (1930-2006)

Dr. Sonja Petersen

3. Hot commodity: Making clothing irons in post-war Poland

Dr. Sławomir Łotysz

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Tudor Ionescu

1. Romanian contribution to the Materials Science

Professor Horia Colan

2. Evolution of nanomaterials development in Romania: from first ideas to first technology transfers

Lecturer Gabriela Adriana Plaiasu
Researcher Radu Robert Piticescu
Researcher Vasile Rizea
Professor Marioara Abrudeanu

3. Priorities in Romanian oil and gas industry: resource; personalities; inventions; technologies; corporate developments; social and historical connections in situs, in tempus and their historical evolution. (In French)

Professor Cotorobai Victoria

4. The Beginnings of Explosive-Material Manufacturing in Romania (1921-1942)

Professor Elena Helerea
Mr. Florentin Olteanu

Location: UI3
Organiser: Barton Hacker
Chair: Ciro Paoletti

1. Union and Confederate views on guncotton

Dr. Yoel Bergman

2. ‘They say that it excited laughter rather than terror, among their men’: The British Professional Military Debate on Mitrailleurs, 1869-1875

Ph.D. candidate Ryan Patterson

3. The Bullet-proof Vest and the Archduke: 19th Century Innovation Versus 20th Century Firepower.

Researcher Lisa Traynor

Location: UI6
Organiser: Timo Myllyntaus
Chair: Elena Kochetkova

1. Needs of Industrialization and the Vice of Economic Depression as Incentives for the Technology Transfer: the 1935 Agreement between the RCA and the Soviet People’s Commissariat in Radio and Electronics.

Professor Vasily Borisov

2. Transnational reactions to the Soviet oil offensive: NATO debates on oil exports and pipeline technology (1960-1962)

Ph.D. candidate Roberto Cantoni

3. The Evolution of Science Cities as Centers for Technological Transitions in Russia

Researcher Galina Gorokhova
Professor Vitaly Gorokhov

4. Intelligence-interchange in the area of Science and Technology between Poland and the Soviet Union, 1986-1990

Dr. Mirosław Sikora

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Markku Norvasuo

1. Prefab-reinterpretation

Dr. Agnes Borsos

2. Architecture and Politics. New Construction Solutions in Polish Fair Venues.

Professor Piotr Marciniak

3. Experiences on the timeline of architecture - parallel contemporary design by the manifesto of the modernism

Dr. Gabriella Medvegy

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Pierre Lamard

1. Turning Points of Eames Design: WWII and Postwar Developments

Professor Marina Cionca
Lecturer Ioan Muscu
Ph.D. candidate Biborka Bartha

2. Railway stations in Romania before World War I

Lecturer Toader Popescu

3. Civil engineering in Romania at the end of 19th century through two buildings: the National Bank and the Romanian Athenaeum

Professor Nicolae Noica

Location: UI3
Organiser: Barton Hacker
Chair: Ciro Paoletti

1. War and Railways in Italy 1915–1918.

Dr. Ciro Paoletti

2. Ottoman Military Governorate in Romania in World War I

Professor Esat Arslan

3. Staying in Shape for War: Sport Promotion by Paramilitary Organization in Poland, 1927‒1939

Ph.D. candidate Anna Turza

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Sami Louekari

1. A. I. Virtanen's AIV method - a technological system that thrived in bad times but struggled in good

Dr. Jarmo Pulkkinen

2. Polyurethane: the fame and decay

Ph.D. candidate Susana França de Sá
Professor Maria Elvira Callapez
Researcher Joana Lia Ferreira
Professor Rita Macedo
Professor Ana Maria Ramos

3. Chemical Products in the Collection of the k. k. Consular-Academy Vienna

Dr. Susanne Gruber

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Piotr Marciniak

1. The evolution of vernacular construction typologies in times of transition – villages from Valcea county, southern Romania

Ph.D. candidate Biborka Bartha

2. Rapid industrial change and urban expansion: the Pansio-Perno shipyards in Turku, Finland.

Dr. Markku Norvasuo
Researcher Mikko Mälkki

3. An overview concerning the transition period reflected in the rural vernacular architecture in southern of Romania

Lecturer Alin M. Olarescu
Ph.D. candidate Biborka Bartha

Location: UI2
Organiser: Stefan Poser
Chair: Peter Koval

1. The impact of technology on the development of tourism in South Croatia in the beginning of the 20th century

Dr. Marija Benić Penava
Dr. Marija Gjurašić

2. The View from the Pits: Fraternal Culture at America’s Speedways

Ph.D. candidate Alison Kreitzer

3. Infrastructures of Play and their Impact on the Environment since the 1980s

Dr. Stefan Poser

Location: UI3
Organiser: Federico Lazarin
Chair: Martha Ortega

1. Exploration and Mapping of Uranium Deposits in Mexico

Researcher Hugo Pichardo

2. Creation of Institutes for the Reception of Nuclear Energy

Dr. Federico Lazarin

3. Uranium Extraction: Utopian Progress for Rural Communities

Ph.D. candidate Martha Ortega
Graduate student Tadeo Liceaga

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Wilhelm Kappel

1. Oil and gas equipment and technology, two-way scientific bridges between east and west

Professor Marian Rizea

2. From the Western Front to Texas: early development of seismic exploration for oil (1914-1926)

Researcher Francesco Gerali

3. 60 years of technology transfer

Dr. Georgeta Alecu
Ph.D. candidate Iulian Iordache
Dr. Elena Enescu
Professor Wilhelm Kappel

4. "The Influence of IT&C and Biotechnology on the Evolution of Society.

Dr. Cristina - Maria Dabu

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: TBA

1. Making a functional replica of a 1924 Dr. TITUS radio set

Dr. Ionita Daescu
Researcher Francisc Visky

2. Technological trends in Estonian industry during and after World War I and II

Ph.D. candidate Vahur Mägi

3. Organizing scientific and technical information during communism: a public library perspective

Ph.D. candidate Claudia Serbanuta
Ms. Raluca Nutiu

4. Source of light and color, natural and artificial, in the perception of a work of art.

Ph.D. candidate Andrei Hrib

5. Back to the Workers' Wonderland: Documenting the Industrial Culture in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989.

Dr. Slawomir Lotysz

6. ‘The End of Assassination?’

Researcher Lisa Traynor

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Alexandre Herlea

1. The 20th century political impact on Brasov industry, Romania. Employees testimonies.

Lecturer Mircea Ivanoiu

2. The transformation of the largest aircraft factories of Romania in tractors factory as result of the Soviet occupation

Lecturer Horia Salca

3. On the History of I.A.R (Romanian Aircraft Industry) - Brasov

Mr. Traian Tomescu
Mr. Neculai Banea

Location: UI3
Organiser: Barton Hacker
Chair: Ciro Paoletti

1. The Norwegian Army Air Force and the Fighter Question 1920-1934

Researcher Frode Lindgjerdet

2. Man-Machine Relationships: British and German Fighter Aces in World War II

Professor Hans-Joachim Braun

3. The Military-Technological Revolution of 1944

Professor David Zimmerman

Location: UI6
Organiser: Amelia Bonea
Chair: Amelia Bonea

1. “The Arm Troubles of Telegraphers”: Historical Perspectives on Technologies of Communication and Repetitive Strain Injuries

Dr. Amelia Bonea

2. “What the Great Majority of Patients Require is Letting Alone”: The Uses of Technology in the Asylum

Dr. Jennifer Wallis

3. Sunlight at the Flick of a Switch: The Risky Consumption of Ultraviolet Lamps, c.1900-1940

Dr. Tania Woloshyn

4. “One of those electric outfits put on the market by quacks”: Overbeck’s Rejuvenator and the British Medical Association, 1924-1937

Dr. James Stark

Location: UI7
Organiser: Simone Fari
Chair: Simone Fari

1. Semi-periphery in transition: The typology of the Greek state's identification in relation with automobility from the 1930s to the 2000s

Dr. Alexia - Sofia Papazafeiropoulou

2. High Speed Trains in a peripheral country: the Italian railway system between revitalization, modernization, and polarization

Professor Andrea Giuntini

3. A railway “Flowers bridge”. Iasi-Ungheni-Chisinau Railway (1876-2011)

Mr. Andrei Berinde

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Toader Popescu

1. The romanian railways during two transition periods: 1945-1960 et 1989-2014

Mr. Radu Robert Bellu

2. Aspects of romanian navy evolution, of its harbours and industry from 1860 to nowadays

Dr. Carmen Atanasiu

3. The Electrification of Railways in Romania

Lecturer Marius Daniel Calin
Mr. Dan Constantin Balan
Mr. Gheorghe Zaharie

Location: UI3
Organiser: Barton Hacker
Chair: Ciro Paoletti

1. The Study of Information Technology Use in the Collection, Transmission and Processing of Radiolocation Information

Dr. Ioan Gheorghe Ratiu

2. Postwar medical use of infrared technology in the USSR

Dr. Vasily P. Borisov
Dr. Igor Y. Kudryavtsev
Dr. Igor V. Ovcharov
Dr. Anatoly N. Panibratets

3. How Sweden Learned to Worry about the Bomb and Stopped Loving It

Ph.D. candidate Petter Wulff

Location: UI6
Organiser: Amelia Bonea
Chair: Amelia Bonea

1. Technological Delusions as a Reflection of the Atmosphere of War: Narratives of Gas, Radio and Magnetism in German and Israeli Psychiatry during the 20th Century

Ph.D. candidate Maria Christina Müller
Dr. Dana Tzur Bitan
Dr. Lars Hornuf

2. Oh God Make Me Slim, Make Me Beautiful: The Side-Effects of Slimming Capsules in India - A Case Study

Dr. Tinni Goswami Bhattacharya

3. Transitioning to Targets: Demography and Population Policy in India, 1951-1975

Ph.D. candidate Cathryn Johnston

Location: UI7
Organiser: Simone Fari
Chair: Alexia - Sofia Papazafeiropoulou

1. Colonial roads in Angola and Mozambique. Experts between peripheries and centres

Dr. Luísa Sousa

2. Travelling or Communicating? The False Dilemma of Mobility. Questions about a marginalized issue

Professor Gabriele Balbi
Researcher Massimo Moraglio

3. Railway at the core and telegraph at the periphery

Dr. Simone Fari

4. Psycho-Historical Review on Korean Visual Representation of New Transportations in 1890-1920: From Tradition toward a Modern Culture under Foreign Colonial Occupation

Professor Jung Sook Bae

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Alexandre Herlea

1. Birth and evolution of the medical instruments factories in Romania since the Independence War (1877) to nowadays

Professor Pompiliu Manea

2. Renault, from Romania to the Logan

Professor Jean Louis Loubet

3. Engines for vehicules in Romania – an european evolution through research and innovation

Dr. Ruxandra Cristina Stanescu
Professor Cornel Stan
Professor Anghel Chiru

Location: UI3
Organiser: Barton Hacker
Chair: Ciro Paoletti

1. Polish torpedo boats’ constructions between 1965 - 1986

Professor Antoni Komorowski
Dr. Tomasz Neubauer

2. Chasing Wonder Weapons

Dr. Hermione Giffard

3. Military technologies and scientific development from Galileo until nanotechnoscience

Dr. Vitaly Gorokhov

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Timo Myllyntaus

1. Is the Debate Over: James Hansen's Contributions to the Changing Atmosphere-Changing Climate Theory

Dr. Anthony N. Stranges

2. Utilizing the environment in Sweden-Finland in the 18th century – technology, realism and utopias.

Dr. Sami Louekari

3. Unintended yet unignorable change, Technological interventions into the river Eider (1886-1973)

Dr. Eike-Christian Heine

Location: UI7
Organiser: Dick van Lente
Chair: Dick van Lente

1. Exploring Comics as a source for computer history

Ph.D. candidate Rik Sanders
Dr. Gerard Alberts

2. Evolution of computers

Lecturer Carmen Lungoci
Professor Livia Sangeorzan

Location: UI2
Organiser: PC
Chair: Octavian Baltag

1. Automatic focusing - a Romanian invention

Professor Octavian Baltag

2. Magnetic measures and countermeasures in Romania of the cold war

Professor Octavian Baltag
Ph.D. candidate Georgiana Marin

3. Brasov, Romania, academic contributions to systematization, diversification, and optimization of robotic mechanisms

Professor Ionel Staretu

4. The Romanian Titus Konteschweller – Global Pioneer of the Radiophony

Dr. Ionita Daescu
Researcher Francisc Visky

Location: UI3
Organiser: Daqing Yang
Chair: Daqing Yang

1. Relocating Marine Engine Shops in Scotland

Mr. Mark Watson

2. Citizen participation in management, promotion and dissemination of Industrial Heritage: Ancient brass factory in Spain

Dr. Marta Vera Prieto

3. Hard places as tourist landscapes in North America's Mountain West

Professor Todd Shallat

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Edmund Todd

1. Quebec's Aborted Transition Towards Nuclear Power, 1963-1983

Ph.D. candidate Mahdi Khelfaoui

2. Some Notes on the History of the German Nuclear Science Community, 1986-2011

Dr. Tudor B. Ionescu

3. Monitoring and control chart of a complex hydropower development ”Lotru”

Dr. Mihai Sporiș
Mr. Ștefan Ioan Neacșu
Mr. Alexandru Duțu
Mr. Mihai Marian Sporiș

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Artemis Yagou

1. Deindustrialization, Multinationals and “Polish Electronics.” Public Debate Towards the Role of Consumer Electronics Industry After the System Transition of 1989

Dr. Patryk Wasiak

2. The perception of commodities reflecting scientific technology

Dr. Eva Waginger

Location: Aula
Organiser: Dick van Lente
Chair: Hermione Giffard

Location: UI2
Organiser: Alexandre Herlea
Chair: Alexandre Herlea

1. Development of the information revolution in Romania

Professor Stefan Iancu

2. A Discourse Analysis of European Technobuzz and its Perception in Romania

Researcher Tudor Ionescu

3. Rumanian IT seen by an insider

Dr. Vlad Tepelea

Location: UI3
Organiser: Daqing Yang
Chair: Mark Watson

1. Identity, history and profit? Comparison of three industrial heritage cases in Pori, Finland

Lecturer Anna Sivula

2. Heritage Plants of The Ural Region (Russia) in Post-industrial Period

Ph.D. candidate Nadezhda Solonina

3. Late Industrialization and The Invention of Heritaging in Japan and Beyond

Professor Daqing Yang

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Jochen Mayer

1. “German Electrification in War and Revolution, 1913-1921”

Dr. Edmund N Todd

2. The impact of electrification in the Spanish most progressive decade, 1958-1975

Dr. Maria Teresa Sanchis

3. Electric machines between industrial revolution and information era

Professor Ion Voncila

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Michael J. Neufeld

1. Cold War, Space Research in Greenland, and the Politics of Rockets

Dr. Henrik Knudsen

2. U.S. Planetary Exploration in the Post-Cold-War World

Dr. Michael J. Neufeld

Location: UI2
Organiser: PC
Chair: Gerard Alberts

1. Office spaces in existing structures for more innovation and space efficiency

Dr. Erzsébet Szeréna Zoltán

2. “Wealth for Whoever Owns the Robots: Technological Unemployment Concerns in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Economic Crises”

Dr. Amy Bix

3. From File Card to Magnetic Tape: The Networks of Technologies and Institutions behind West German Labour Statistics, c.1945-1973

Dr. Jochen F. Mayer

Location: UI3
Organiser: PC
Chair: Sławomir Łotysz

1. Industrial heritage as a resource - the case of Romania

Lecturer Ioana Irina Iamandescu

2. New industrial culture

Dr. Lars Scharnholz
Researcher Heidi Pinkepank

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Antoni Roca-Rosell

1. Progressive dies. History and evolution. (In Spanish)

Dr. Fernando Fadon
Dr. Enrique Ceron

2. The birth of the science of machines and the roles of the fathers-founders

Dr. Irina Gouzevitch
Dr. Dmitri Gouzevitch

3. A few considerations regarding to the Romanian craftsmanship culture in the context of beyond modernism

Lecturer Alin M. Olarescu
Ph.D. candidate Biborka Bartha

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Francesco Gerali

1. The technical public library: popularizing science vs. offering specialized services

Ph.D. candidate Claudia Serbanuta
Ms. Raluca Nutiu

2. Digitization of documentary cultural heritage in Romania

Ph.D. candidate Marius Stoianovici
Ph.D. candidate Ionela Barsan
Professor Angela Repanovici
Ph.D. candidate Nadine Roman
Professor Liliana Rogozea

3. Archives in Wonderland: The Promise and Perils of Transitions into the Digital Era

Professor Darwin Stapleton

Location: UI2
Organiser: PC
Chair: Maria Elvira Callapez

1. The period of transitions: from landlines to wireless telegraphy in Brazil

Dr. Mauro Costa da Silva

2. The emergence of optical telegraphy during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: a case study of Ireland, 1797-1805.

Ph.D. candidate Adrian James Kirwan

3. The evolution of telecommunications in Romania

Professor Mariana Jurian
Professor Ioan Lita
Lecturer Daniel Visan

Location: UI3
Organiser: PC
Chair: Biborka Bartha

1. How Dutch wagonmakers became body makers. Knowledge transfer by trade association and a government agency, 1900-1940

Ph.D. candidate Sue-Yen Tjong Tjin Tai

2. Automobile coachbuilders on the early 20th century in Portugal: craftsmen skills and customs policy as factors to softening peripheral status

Dr. José Barros Rodrigues

3. The appearance of techniques derived from automobile coachwork in Jean Prouvés industrial architecture

Dr. Andreas Buss

Location: UI6
Organiser: PC
Chair: Antoni Roca-Rosell

1. The modern technique of tapping the pine in Spain, or The learning process of forest engineers and resin tappers (1865-1900)

Ph.D. candidate Juan Luis Delgado

2. Solar desalting plants in Atacama (1872, 1907)

Ph.D. candidate Nelson Arellano

3. The lighting systems on lighthouses of the Polish Coast changes

Professor Antoni Komorowski
Dr. Iwona Pietkiewicz

Location: UI7
Organiser: PC
Chair: Gerard Alberts

1. April Fool’s Day Hoaxes and the Understanding of Technology

Dr. Olle Hagman

2. I killed Einstein, Gentlemen. The technology of reality in czechoslovak science-fiction films 1945-1989

Researcher Peter Koval

3. The image of bio-technology in contemporary art and media

Professor Urszula Jarecka