TG Technikgeschichte

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...

My article approaches the large-scale German editing projects Monumenta Germaniae Historica (1826–present) and Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (1862–present) in terms of the particular ways in which they make use of paper. The projects, sometimes...

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...

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...