In August of 2007, the editorial team noticed a number of manuscripts about water technologies coming over the transom in just a few months. Then more manuscripts arrived. Our instinct—that the serendipity represented by this uncoordinated and unplanned influx of articles is an especially telling one—is borne out both by the thematic insights found in [...]
Martin Reuss
The essays in this issue came together in a completely unplanned though surely serendipitous way, and they collectively exhibit the growing interest in water resources history. The topics extend over several centuries and parts of four continents and, consequently, do not easily coalesce around a certain theme or themes. For this state of affairs [...]
Steven J. Jackson
The topic of water and its associated problems has traditionally occupied a niche within the literature of environmental history and the history of technology. But in recent times this trickle of scholarly and popular attention has turned into a flood. Major books and reports are now appearing at a rate of several per [...]
Robert C. Post
This year in Lisbon, SHOT concludes a fiftieth-anniversary commemoration that began in 2007 in Washington, D.C. Fifty years. While attending a meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education at Cornell University in 1957, Mel Kranzberg announced his intention “to start our own society and our own journal.” The next year, SHOT was [...]
Maria Paula Diogo
Portuguese museums that date from the turn of the twentieth century differ greatly from those developed in the 1980s and 1990s. For some fifty years prior to the Carnation Revolution of 1974–76, Portugal was ruled by a dictatorship little interested in the preservation of the country’s scientific, technical, and industrial heritage. With two [...]
