Programs, Past Meetings
II Washington, 1997: Electronics
MONDAY, 13 October
18:30-21:00 Reception/buffet dinner at home of Jane and Barney Finn
6819 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD
TUESDAY, 14 October (Reception Suite, First Floor, NMAH)
9:00-9: 15 Greetings: Spencer Crew (Smithsonian Institution, Director of National Museum of American History)
9:15-9:30 Comments on agenda: Bernard Finn (Smithsonian, NMAH)
9:30-10:00 Report on consequences of 1996, including publication: Robert Bud (Science Museum)
Session 1. Chair: Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum)
10:00-11 :00 Hartmut Petzold (Deutsches Museum),"Wilhelm Cauer and his Calculating Machine Project, 1929-1934"
11 :00-11: 15 Break
11 :15-11 :45 Paul Forman (Smithsonian, NMAH), "Researching Rabi's Relics"
11:45-12:15 Frederik Nebeker (IEEE History Center) "Radios, Wire Recorders and Calculators: the Importance of Artifacts for Writing the History of Electronics"
12:15-12:45 W. Bernard Carlson University of Virginia), "Looking at the Telephone"
!2:45-14:00 Lunch; remarks, Lonnie Bunch (Smithsonian, NMAH)
Session 2. Chair: Robert Bud
14:00-15:00 "The Cardiac Pacemaker," David Rhees (The Bakken Library and Museum)
15:00-15:30 Paul Ceruzzi (Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum), "'The Mind's Eye' and the Computers of Seymour Cray"
Alan Morton (Science Museum), "The Electron Made Public: Pure Science at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924"
15:45-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 David Allison (Smithsonian, NMAH), Web presentation
18:00-18:30 Break
18:30-20:30 Reception/buffet-dinner (NMAH)
WEDNESDAY, 15 October
Session 3. Chair: Sheldon Hochheiser (AT&T Archives)
9:00-10:00 Jon Eklund, Bernard Finn, "The Role of Objects in the Information Age Exhibit"
Critique by Roger Bridgman (Science Museum), Hartmut Petzold (Deutsches Museum)
10:00-10:30 Brian Boweres (Science Museum), Harold Wallace (Smithsonian, NMAH), "Collecting Strategies in an Era of Diminishing Corporate Interest"
10:30-10:45 Michael Geselowitz (IEEE History Center), "Progress towards an Electrical Museums Directory"
10:45-11:00 Break
Session 4. Chair: Bernard Finn
11 :00-1 :00 Round table and general discussion
Issues raised in presentations of papers: Robert Friedel
Current issues in technical museums: Helmuth Trischler, Robert Bud, Helena
Wright (Smithsonian, NMAH)
General discussion, including prospects for 1998