The Pittsburgh Meeting, 15-18 October 2009

摘要

The fifty-first annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology took place at the Hilton Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 15-18 October 2009. Members of the program committee were Tiago Saraiva, Martina Hessler, and Asif Siddiqi. Serving on the local arrangements committee were David Hounshell, Joel Tarr, Larry Burke, Sarah Johnson, Michelle Mock, Drew Simpson, and Lee Vinsel. Special thanks to our sponsors, Carnegie Mellon University; the Senator John H. Heinz HI History Center; the graduate programs in the history of technology at Case Western Reserve University, the University of Delaware, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia; Johns Hopkins University Press; Scholar's Choice; the University of Pittsburgh Press; Visit Pittsburgh; and the Wetland Institute. Extra special thanks to W Bernard Carlson and Jane Carlson.