Course of the History of Technology
Year acc. 2010-2011
Prof. Vittorio Marchis
Program
The course runs along the paths of technological culture, focusing on the period that proceeds from the Renaissance to the present day, with a few words to the technology of ancient and medieval world. Alongside the examination of innovative processes in companies led by the new technologies we examine the economic issues, social and cultural techniques that have resulted over the centuries up to affect the same literature and art. In summary, the course could be called a social history of technology where you prefer to view the changes inducted into the society by technology rather than changing "internal" of devices and machines.
subject of the lesson:
1. Technology and society. For an anthropology of technical
2. Archaeology of the technique. The origins: Homo faber
3. Techniques in the Ancient World. Findings and evidence
4. The technique in the Middle Ages. Utopias and innovations.
5. The technique of building from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Churches and fortifications
6. The Renaissance of machines. Michelangelo by Francesco di Giorgio
7. Communicating technical: "Theaters of Machines" new technologies of the sixteenth century
8. Hydraulics and the birth of a science water. From Leonardo to Belidor
9. The metallurgy of Agricultural and Biringucci to Duhamel du Monceau
10. The new science. Measure to know. From Galileo to Newton
11. The technology of air and fire, Papin, Savery, Newcomen, Watt.
12. The world of silk: from Bologna to Turin, an Italian story
13. The Industrial Revolution in England: the fashion and textile invents change society
14. The Enlightenment and encyclopedias: the adventure of Ephraim Chambers and Denis Diderot ...
15. The industrial exposures: from the Champ de Mars in Paris at the Crystal Palace in London, and beyond
16. The Italian exhibitions. Castello del Valentino in Turin, Italian scenarios
17. Technical education: Treaties technical manuals. The schools of mechanical engineering in England
18. The railways in Europe and in Italy
19. The vocational and technical schools in Italy. The Rise of polytechnics
20. The Italian Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution
21. The industrial innovation. Privileges, deprivation and patents
22. Materials science. From Lavoisier to Justus von Liebig, and over
23. The power: between chemical and mechanical technologies. A. Volta, G. Ferraris, TAEdison
24. Telecommunications: the optical telegraph Chappe telegraph to wireless G. Marconi
25. The science of flight: balloons, airships, airplanes. The Italian case
26. New technologies the building at the end of 900. Cement, iron, glass.
27. Technology and industry. The paradigms of the second industrial revolution
28. Technology and war. The great world wars
29. The machines that count. Processors mechanical, electrical and electronic
30. The techno-science in the twentieth century
31. The conquest of space
32. Androids, robots, cars and people.
Seminars and insights will be developed around the themes:
Literature and technology: the twentieth century
Literature and technology of the twentieth century
Arts and technology: the ways of visual communication
The course exercises but will not provide students with the indicated possible paths be addressed to thematic analysis.
The textbook is the essay by Vittorio Marchis. History machines , Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2010 (3rd ed.) To which joins V. Marchis and F. Niedzwiecki, Materials for a history of techniques , Torino: Celid, 2004.
The final finding of the course will focus on a written test which can be added (to the student's request) an oral test to be developed since the thematic analysis of individual choice.
