Volume 91 (2024), Edition 2

Natural gas has been used in Austria since the 1930s, initially mainly as a raw material in the coal-based town gas production that has existed since the 19th century. The first plans to convert the local but highly complex networks from town gas to...

What was the connection between technical rationalization and child labor? Some authors claim that the increasing rationalization of production processes made child labor largely obsolete in the 19th century, while others dispute this connection....

The Institute for Scientific Film Göttingen (IWF) was founded in the 1950s and was a national and international leader in the production, distribution, collection and conception of scientific films. The main project of the IWF was the Encyclopaedia...