- The Dearborn Meeting, 6–9 November 2014
The fifty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology took place at the Henry Ford and the University of Michigan–Dearborn, in Dearborn, 6–9 November 2014. Members of the program committee were Lars Heide, Kevin Borg, and Dan Holbrook. The local arrangements committee was chaired by Marilyn Zoidis of the Henry Ford, with assistance from Matt Anderson, Bob Casey, Clara Deck, Kristen Gallerneaux, Marc Greuther, Saige Jedele, Cynthia Jones, Dina Mein, Angela Pelc, and John Staudenmaier, S.J. Thanks go to everyone on the program and local arrangements committee, as well as to Christian Overland and Patricia Mooradian of the Henry Ford, Charles Hyde, Bill Kelsh, Cari Casteel, Jay Higgins and Donna Fico of Sprintout, and Jane Carlson.
Annual Meeting Sessions
Opening Plenary
David Nye, University of Southern Denmark
By the Audience
Sporting Spaces in Technological Context
James R. Hansen, Auburn University
David N. Lucsko, Auburn University
By the Audience
“Golf Architect Meets Automotive Engineer: Robert Trent Jones, John Oswald, and the Landmark Redesign of Detroit’s Oakland Hills Country Club for the 1951 U.S. Open Championship,” James R. Hansen, Auburn University; “Gender and Jewish Ys in Creating Sports Spaces for American Jewish Women, 1920s–1930s,” Linda Borish, Western Michigan University; “Speeding Through a Man’s World: Women Sports Car Drivers in the 1950s and 1960s,” Jeremy Kinney, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum [End Page 224]
Artifacts of Inequality: The Embodiment and Disembodiment of Race in Agricultural Technologies
Owen James Hyman, Mississippi State University
Barbara Hahn, Texas Tech University
“The Language of Mechanization: Race and the Quantification of Labor in the Southern Forest Industries,” Owen James Hyman, Mississippi State University; “Muddy to Clean: The Farm-Raised Catfish Industry and Development of Aquaculture Science and Food Technologies,” Karen Senaga, Mississippi State University; “Pig Standards for Nazism and the New Deal: Animal Breeding and Experimental Design at the University of Halle and at Iowa State,” Tiago Saraiva, Drexel University
This Is Not a Roundtable: THATCamp, SHOT, and the Place of Technology in the History of Technology
Finn Arne Jørgensen, Umeå University, Sweden
By the Audience
Technology in Use
Kevin Borg, James Madison University
“Repairing Mexico’s Green Revolution, 1940s–1980s,” Joshua Walker, University of Maryland; “Early Gas Engines on the Farm: Did Women Use Them?” Carrie Meyer, George Mason University; “Inching Towards the Metre: Diffusion of Metric Measures in Countries using the Imperial System,” Aashish Velkar, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Works in Progress
Francesca Bray, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
“The Broken Frame of the Frame Breakers,” Zachary Loeb, NYU–MCC; “The Political Economy of Digital Games: The International Dynamics in East Asia,” HungYin Tsai, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Rethinking Non-Western Social Technical Systems
Lars Heide, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
“Dams and Bikes: How South Korea Managed to ‘Kill the Rivers’ and Enjoy Cycling along Them,” Chihyung Jeon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea; “Recasting a New River: [End Page 225] Engineers, Dams, and Politics along the Cauvery in Southern India,” Ramya Swayamprakash, Independent Researcher, India; “Innovation in Indian Weaving,” Wiebe Bijker and Annapurna Mamidipudi, Maastricht University, Netherlands
Criminality and Technology
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
“The March of IDES: The Advent and Early History of Intrusion Detection Expert Systems,” Jeffrey R. Yost, University of Minnesota; “Stealing Freedom: Automobile Anti-Theft Deterrents, Criminal Countermeasures, and Technological Change, 1900–1970,” John Heitmann, University of Dayton
Sound and Vision
Paul Ceruzzi, National Air and Space Museum
“Defining the Problem of Aircraft Noise,” Janet R. Bednarek, University of Dayton; “The Stereo Turn in American Television, 1953–1984,” Luke Stadel, Northwestern University
People Movers
Lee Vinsel, Stevens Institute of Technology
“The Short History of the Mobile Lounge,” Ray Clark, George Mason University; “Automobile Archaeology: The Human Stories around a Transformative Technology,” Jonathan Summers, Stanford University; “All Aboard: A History of Rail Transportation Technology in Brazil,” Edison Renato Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil