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Guillaume de Syon
Albright College, History, Faculty Member
- History of Space Travel, Tourism Studies, History, Technology, Aviation, Visual Studies, and 36 moreHistory and Memory, Aerodynamics, Technology And Culture, France, Airline marketing, Aerospace, Air Transport, Sociology of Technology, Aviation History (Transport History), History Of Food Consumption, Airline Food, Zeppelin, Socio technical Change, Women Gender Aviation, airships Hindenburg history Technology and Culture, Frankfurt tourism postwar Germany foreign travel Walter Kolb, History of Science, Popular Culture, Airship, Space Exploration, First World War, History of Technology, Cultural History of the First World War, History of Science and Technology, Aviation History, Airships, Transport History, German History, World War I, Switzerland, 20th century France, Second World War, Memory Studies, Weimar Republic, Great War, and Première Guerre Mondialeedit
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From 1900 until World War II, the southern German town of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance was known as "Zeppelin City." During that time, Friedrichshafen served as the manufacturing center for the giant... more
From 1900 until World War II, the southern German town of Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance was known as "Zeppelin City." During that time, Friedrichshafen served as the manufacturing center for the giant airships bearing their inventor's name. Beginning in the 1970s, ...
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Dedication Preface Chronology Introduction: Revolutions Chapter 1 Agriculture: From Farm to Town Chapter 2 Building the City and its Urban Culture Chapter 3 The Rail in All its Expressions Chapter 4 Sell Your Horse and Buy a Car Chapter 5... more
Dedication Preface Chronology Introduction: Revolutions Chapter 1 Agriculture: From Farm to Town Chapter 2 Building the City and its Urban Culture Chapter 3 The Rail in All its Expressions Chapter 4 Sell Your Horse and Buy a Car Chapter 5 Navigating the Earth and Heavenly Seas Chapter 6 Communicating Chapter 7 The Specter of War Chapter 8 Energy Chapter 9 Technology in the Home and the Office Chapter 10 Medical Awareness Chapter 11 Scientific Challenges Chapter 12 Conclusion: A Global Experience? Bibliography
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This chapter considers the motif of airplanes and, more specifically, the ability to fly them that surfaces again and again in Hergé’s comics. The motif reveals not just an interest on the cartoonist’s part in airplanes, but the twentieth... more
This chapter considers the motif of airplanes and, more specifically, the ability to fly them that surfaces again and again in Hergé’s comics. The motif reveals not just an interest on the cartoonist’s part in airplanes, but the twentieth century’s slowly shifting understanding of what the airplane meant and what the skill to fly it signified.
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The start of the French Fifth Republic in 1958 has often been cast as the shedding of old and move into what would become 1960s modernity. The images associated with this shift include aeronautics, but also the atom. However, whereas the... more
The start of the French Fifth Republic in 1958 has often been cast as the shedding of old and move into what would become 1960s modernity. The images associated with this shift include aeronautics, but also the atom. However, whereas the airplane (such as the Concorde ...
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A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s, by Lawrence Badash.A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s, by Lawrence Badash. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2009. xiii, 403 pp. $ 40.00 US...more
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Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn, by Kees GispenPoems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn, by Kees Gispen. Monographs in German History, volume 6. New York, Berghahn Books, 2002. xvi, 356 pp. $75.00 US ...more
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When the Concorde touches down in London this October to complete its last scheduled transatlantic flight, it will mark the end of an era. To its crews, to the happy few who could afford a ticket (a round trip averaged ten thousand... more
When the Concorde touches down in London this October to complete its last scheduled transatlantic flight, it will mark the end of an era. To its crews, to the happy few who could afford a ticket (a round trip averaged ten thousand dollars), and to sympathetic observers, the end of ...