TG Technikgeschichte

On the wards of St Bartholomew’s, Guy’s, or other London hospitals in the nineteenth century, house physicians working or medical clerks studying medicine likely encountered bulky casebooks – which have survived to the present day in the...

This article proposes a case study on the influence that paper – here meant as a knowledge carrier or knowledge tool – can have on concrete artisanal practices. Focusing on literate mine surveyors, it discusses how the written medium gradually...

The history of paper is rooted in a material culture of ancient provenance which has insistently shaped cultural life since its invention two thousand years ago. As such, a history of paper is no less a study of immateriality, of the meaning of the...