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TECHNOLOGIES, TECHNOLOGISTS & NETWORKS
A Symposium on the History of Communication Technologies
October 17, 2007
Smithsonian National Postal Museum
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Two Concurrent Panels: 10:00 am – 12:00 noon |
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Session 1A
Internet(s)
e-Archipelago: Socio-Political History of the Internet in Indonesia
Merlyna Lim, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
The Internet: On its International Origins and Collaborative Vision
Ronda Hauben, Journalist
[presentation]
“The Computer as a Communications Device”: Looking back almost 40 years later
Jay Hauben, Library Systems Office, Columbia University
[presentation] [paper]
The Victorian ‘Local Area Network’
Trudy E. Bell, Science Journalist
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Session 1B
Communication Technologies from Cradle to Grave
Toward a History of New Media: Novelty
Benjamin Peters, Doctoral Student, Columbia University
Tesla, Marconi, and the Race to Develop Wireless Telegraphy, 1890-1905
W. Bernard Carlson, Professor, University of Virginia
[presentation]
Who Rang the Changes? User Creativity vs. Intellectual Property in Early Telephonic Imaginings
Graeme Gooday, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds
[presentation]
Where do Communications Technologies Go To Die?
Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University
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Two Concurrent Panels: 1:15 pm – 3:15 pm |
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Session 2A
Radio/Noise
‘Experiments in Radio Telephony in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force during the First World War’
Elizabeth Bruton, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Forgotten Pioneers of FM: Eugene F. McDonald, Jr. and Zenith Radio Corporation
Harold N. Cones
Improving the Noise Performance of Communication Systems: 1920s to early 1930s
Mischa Schwartz, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
[presentation] [paper]
‘Cross-talking’: Signal and Noise in the History of Greek telecommunications
Aristotle Tympas, Mihalis Tsarapatsanis, and Sotiris Vernardos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and National Technical University of Athens
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Session 2B
Technologies, Technologists, and Networks
The ‘Araldo Telefonico”. Origins, Structures and Models of the Italian Broadcasting
Gabriele Balbi, Doctoral Student, University of Lugano
[presentation]
British Imperial Postal Networks, 1815-1914
Daniel R. Headrick, Roosevelt University
‘I have in mind. . . ’ David Sarnoff, RCA, and the Arc of the American Century
Alexander B. Magoun, David Sarnoff Library
[presentation]
Re-touching the Void: The Airbrush in Photographic History
Gina Giotta, Doctoral Student, University of Iowa
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Two Concurrent Panels: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
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Session 3A
Space and Communication
Negotiating a Worldwide Space Communications Network: NASA’s Discussions with the Australian and South African Governments for the Establishment of Overseas Deep Space Instrumentation Facilities, 1958-1960
Craig B. Waff, Staff Historian, Air Force Research Laboratory
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Sputnik and Satellite Communications
David J. Whalen, University of North Dakota, JDOSAS, Space Studies Department
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Live from the (Project) Apollo: Technology’s Influence on How CBS Reported the Moon Story
Kathy Keltner, Lecturer, Vanderbilt University
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Session 3B
Technologies and their Users
Representations of the Electric Telegraph in The Popular Press and Literature
Heidi Gautshi, Doctoral Student, University Paris X-Nanterre
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‘The Public Service Ethic in Early Ham Radio’
Duncan Fisher, Lecturer, Telford College
IT and Public Record Management in the United States: From Hierarchical Control to Decentralized Empowerment
Umaru Bah, Morgan State University |
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Final remarks: 5:00 pm
Allison Marsh, Smithsonian National Postal Museum |
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Contact:
For further information please email Allison Marsh at: marsha@si.edu
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