Programs, Past Meetings
III, Munich 1998: Transportation
Sunday, October 30
15.00-ca. 21.00 Visit to the Flugwerft Schleisheim, reception
Monday, October 31
09.00 - 09.30
Welcome: Wolf Peter Fehlhammer (Deutsches Museum)
"A look back to Washington, 1997," Barney Finn (Smithsonian Institution)
Introduction, Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum)
09.30 - 11.00
"Colonial Railways of Great Britain and India around 1900," Robert McWilliam Science Museum
"Maps, Military Transport and the Cold War," Deborah Warner (Smithsonian Institution)
Discussion
11.30 -12.30
"Travelling Inside a Nuclear Submarine," Bart Hacker (Smithsonian Institution)
Discussion
12.30- 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30
"Walt Disney's Dog Pluto and the History of Technology: the Case of the Electic Car," Gijs Mom (HTS-Autotechniek, Arnhem)
"The Driver in the Machine: Changing Car Interiors," Kurt Moser (Landesmuseum fur Technik und Arbeit, Mannheim)
Discussion
16.00 - 17.30
"German Influence on British Aircraft," Andrew Nahum (Science Museum)
"Jet Engines and Anglo American Technology Transfer," Peter Lyth (Deutsches Museum)
17.30 - 18.00
Commentary on day's sessions, Colin Divall (National Railway Museum, York)
19.00 Dinner with the Director-General
Tuesday, October 13
09.00 - 10.30 Museum Tour
10.45 - 13.30
Panel Discussion: "New Approaches in Transport History"
Chair: Robert Friedel (University of Maryland)
Further participants:
Bettina Gundler (Deutsches Museum}
Nicolas Neiertz (Musee des Arts et Metier)
Derek Robinson (Science Museum)
William Withun (Smithsonian Institution)
Henry Wydler (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Luzern)
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 16.00
"Exhibition Review: the aviation galleries of the Deutsches Museum," Ed Constant Carnegie-Mellon University