{"title":"The trireme-high-tech weapon of the ancient seas","authors":"J. Vardalas, M. Geselowitz","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307317","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given: Sometime in 481, as the Persian king Xerxes gathered a vast invasion force in western Anatolia, the assembly in Athens debated the proper military response. Themistocles alone argued for the need to use sea power. The Oracle's pronouncement that \"a wall of wood alone shall be uncaptured, a boon to you and your children\" was a clear reference to their ships' hulls, he argued, and not to some ancient fence around the acropolis. He won the argument that day and Athens bet everything on her fleet, eventually securing a great victory at nearby Salamis (in October 480 BCE). Without control of the sea, Xerxes cut the size of his land force, charged a subordinate with continuing the war, and personally returned to Asia. Although the fighting continued for another year, the lesson was not lost on the first historian of western literature, Herodotus of Halicarnassus. For him, Athens and her new fleet of warships-called triremes-saved Greece. The technological key to victory, then, lay in the trireme, a fearful weapon, which Athens was able to use to great effect, not only against Xerxes, but also in the decades to follow. With it, the Athenians forged an Empire and a flowering of culture that still amaze us. This paper explores what is known of the origins, engineering, and role in world history of the trireme, with special attention played the student research done as part of a pioneering class on engineering history at the Stevens Institute of technology.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"53 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114300604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Siberian electronics and cultural progress in the East Russia during the last century","authors":"G. Sharygin, L. Sharygina","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307319","url":null,"abstract":"The paper gives the short historical description of the social-cultural development of Siberia - the vast geographical region of the Asian part of Russia. Due to the low population density, severe climate and remoteness from centers of the world civilization Siberia up to the XIX century was the underdeveloped part of Russia in spite of the reach natural resources. Still during the last 200 years Siberia demonstrated rapid development of industry, science and culture. It is shown in the paper that this progress is connected with the leading brunches of knowledge - such as physics, electronics and information technologies. To-day Siberia is not only the highly developed industrial area but also one of the centers of the world science and culture.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127472359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beginning of soviet broadcasting and first soviet radar projects as example of state influence on innovations","authors":"N. Borisova","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307320","url":null,"abstract":"High technologies develop successfully in those countries that create corresponding conditions: innovative potential, innovative climate, innovative culture. But the history of science and technology gives evidence of a deeper essence of innovative mechanisms. The paper will try to clarify this issue by addressing the Soviet broadcasting of the 1920s and the Soviet radar of the 1930s, state influence on Innovations, linear and nonlinear (synergetic) model of innovative development.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121677834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nikola Tesla and the problem of human energy","authors":"Branimir Jovanovic","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307304","url":null,"abstract":"Nikola Tesla, Serbian - American inventor, is one of of the most prominent electrical engineers and inventors at the end of XIX and beginning of XX century. He is most known as inventor of induction motor but in 1880s and 1890s he had a number of succesfull patents in the fields of transmission of electrical energy and wireless telegraphy. The global significance of his innovations induced Tesla early to reflect on the global problems of humankind.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122570557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The history of electronics reviewed through the history of Magneti Marelli Factory in Pavia, Italy","authors":"R. Rocchelli, A. Savini","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307307","url":null,"abstract":"Describing the history of the almost 70 years of existence (1932-2000) of the Magneti Marelli factory in Pavia (Italy) gives the opportunity of reviewing important steps of the evolution of electronic technology and manufacturing in Italy / Europe, from electronic components for radio and television receivers to electronic control units for cars.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127976150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A short history of 3D printing, a technological revolution just started","authors":"A. Savini, G. Savini","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307314","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reviews the short history of 3D printing and points out the possible impact on society of this new revolutionary technology which may soon change our way of manufacturing but also of working, playing and living.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":" 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120827364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rise of light","authors":"M. Guarnieri","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307311","url":null,"abstract":"This article is inspired by the celebration of the year light in 2015 and regards the long lasting relationship between man and light. Man started using light in prehistoric times and the oldest traces of scientific investigations on light date back to ancient China and Greece. While the long march of science led to the modern theories of light Maxwell, Einstien and quantum electrodynamics, light technologies have developed providing more and more differentiated applications. Since long ago we have used various forms of artificial light that have profoundly impacted in our working systems and life. More recently we have learned to use the light in a large family of technologies, include photography, cinema and television, and also the technological domain of optoelectronics, that regards the management, processing and transmission of information, which so deeply characterize our society.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133184807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History of development of map-based automotive navigation system ‘honda electro gyrocator’","authors":"M. Arai, Yukinobu Nakamura, I. Shirakawa","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307318","url":null,"abstract":"This article overviews the history of development of world's first map-based automotive navigation system `Honda Electro Gyrocator'. Even prior to the advent of GPS, Honda devised a sophisticated mechanism to display the traveled course of a moving vehicle on CRT, referring to the idea inspired by inertial navigation systems so far developed for airplanes, and then constructed a man-machine processing scheme to overlay one of transparent road-map sheets on the traveled course displayed on CRT, so that the driver could view the present location over the transparent road-map sheet. This scheme was finally evolved into the map-based navigation system `Honda Electric Gyrocator', which was released for the first time in 1981.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131909403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first remote recording of gramophone records in continental Europe (Zagreb, 1927)","authors":"Ž. Benčić, S. Fajt, B. Hanžek","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307313","url":null,"abstract":"In 1926, in an alliance between the Zagreb pencil factory Penkala and the English company Edison Bell, a gramophone and gramophone record factory, was founded in Zagreb, under the name Edison Bell Penkala. In 1927 experts from that factory undertook the first remote recording of a gramophone record in continental Europe, using a telephone line. This was the third recording in the world, after the recordings in the New York Metropolitan opera house and in London's Covent Garden. This article describes the technical recording methods used, from the microphone in Zagreb Cathedral, to the gramophone record cutting machine in a studio about 1250 m away. The recording arrangement was developed by Paul Voigt, an electrical engineer from Edison Bell Company who spent the second half of 1927 in Zagreb. It also describes the development of the necessary scientific base in Croatia from 1875 to the Second World War for such an enterprise.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134376320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Okude, Hajime Imura, M. Uno, Shun Tasaki, I. Shirakawa
{"title":"History of Japan’s first commercial hydroelectric generation at keage power station","authors":"K. Okude, Hajime Imura, M. Uno, Shun Tasaki, I. Shirakawa","doi":"10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HISTELCON.2015.7307306","url":null,"abstract":"Kyoto Prefecture launched the `Lake Biwa Canal Project' in 1881, intending to channel water from Lake Biwa to Kyoto. Its original objective was to use the water for waterway transportation, water wheels, irrigation, fire-fighting, etc., but midway through its construction work the project was refined so as to include the hydroelectric power generation, based on the investigation of the hydroelectric plant just started in Aspen, Colorado, USA. This refinement gave birth to the Japan's first commercial hydroelectric generation at Keage in Kyoto. This article overviews the history of construction and operation of the Keage Power Station.","PeriodicalId":432859,"journal":{"name":"2015 ICOHTEC/IEEE International History of High-Technologies and their Socio-Cultural Contexts Conference (HISTELCON)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116601064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}