A 1905 field trip launched Everette DeGolyer on a career as an oil businessman, geophysicist, and leading patron of history of science and technology in the United States. The tradition he began at the University of Oklahoma opens a new chapter with T&C‘s move to the university.

Visitors arriving at shaft twelve of the Ruhr Museum’s Zollverein colliery in Essen are greeted by an industrial Gesamtkunstwerk in steel and brick that is well worth the journey.

Making historical work truly useful to people in the policy world will require reshaping the values of our own profession.

An international conflict over pollution from the smelter in Trail, British Columbia, was a harbinger of a type of transnational problem that has become of utmost importance. Historians of technology could make important contributions to a resolving these, because they are intimately linked with technology.

Thoughts on the future of academic communities, the changing character of scholarly communications, and the public role of historically rigorous understandings of technology.