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Showing: Technology (all days)

Tue 13 April
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Wed 14 April
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Thu 15 April
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

Fri 16 April
8.30
10.45
14.15
16.30

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Tuesday 13 April 2010 10.45

I-2 TEC02 National Technological Politics
Room D1, Pauli

Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology	Chair: Peter Meyer
Organizers: -	Discussant: Peter Meyer

Ann-Kristin Bergquist, Kristina Söderholm : Shared problems, shared costs and common solutions. Cooperation for clean technology development in the Swedish pulp- and paper industry 1900-1990.
Sabil Francis : Negotiating Technology: The IITs in India
Lewis Siegelbaum : Sputnik and the Soviet Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, 1958
Will Wilson : 'A Nation at Work' Exhibition Düsseldorf 1937: Producing and Consuming

Tuesday 13 April 2010 14.15

H-3 HIS03 Economy 1: Transport, Economy and GIS
Hortazaal, Pauli

Networks: , Technology	Chair: Ian Gregory
Organizers: -	Discussant: Ian Gregory

Sedef Akgungor, Yaprak Gulcan & Vahap Tecim : A GIS Approach for the Analysis of Regional Development Effects of the Road Network in Turkey
Ana Alcântara, Nuno Miguel Lima : Regional patterns of attractiveness and accessibility to railways in Portugal (1890-1930)
Yesim Kustepeli, Ian Gregory : Railroads, Population Growth and Economic Development: A Comparative
Luis Silveira, Daniel Alves : The Construction of the Modern Transport Network and Regional Population Distribution in Portugal (1801-1940)

Tuesday 13 April 2010 16.30

H-4 TEC04 Economy 2: Railways, Agricultural Development and Urbanization in Britain, France and Spain, 1840-1970
Hortazaal, Pauli

Networks: , Technology	Chair: Anne Mccants
Organizers: -	Discussant: Anne Mccants

Ian Gregory : Where Can I Get the Train? Accessibility to Railway Transport in Great Britain, 1840-1950
Laia Mojica Gasol : Measuring the impact of railways on urbanization through GIS: a case study of the Iberian Peninsula and France.
Robert Schwartz, Ian Gregory : Railways and Agrarian Change in Rural Britain and France, 1850-1914
Thomas Thevenin, Arnaud Banos : Exploring space and time dimensions of agriculture and population change in France, 1830 to1930

Z-4 TEC01 The Development of New Consumer Cultures
M204, Marissal

Networks: Material and Consumer Culture , Technology	Chair: Dick Van Lente
Organizers: -	Discussant: Lesley Whitworth

Gabriele Balbi : How (relevant social) groups matter. The early Italian Telephone case study
Clive Edwards : Developing new markets in the European furniture industry through the use of lamination and bentwood design and technology, 1830-1880
Alberto Grandi : The refrigeration industry and changes in food consumption
Hiroki Shin, Colin Divall : Rapid travel in comfort: quality of passenger experience in the history of Britain's railways

Wednesday 14 April 2010 10.45

T-6 TEC03 Implementing Ingenuity. Contrasting Institutional Perspectives on the Role of Engineers and Artisans in Technological Advance
M202, Marissal

Networks: Labour , Technology	Chair: David Mitch
Organizers: -	Discussant: Alessandro Nuvolari

Christine Macleod : What did it mean to design an aeroplane? Disputed claims to the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1919-1937
Liliane Perez : Artisans, Operative Skills and Labour Rationalities at the Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Karine Van Der Beek : Investment in Human Capital on the Eve of the British Industrial Revolution: The Market for Engineering-related skills