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