Good, Durable, Safe. Quality and Safety Requirements of Technology in History
November 17 & 18, 2023, Klostergut Paradies, Schlatt near Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Contributors
Prof. Dr. Guillaume de Syon, Albright College, Reading PA, USA
Safety, Speed and New Standards: Building an Engineering Culture around the Concorde Prototypes
Dr. Frank Dittmann, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany & Ludwig Bauer, M.A., Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
From the tensile test to X-ray apparatus and the electron microscope/EBCS: Quality assurance in industry and science using the example of iron metallurgy in Germany
Nicole Hesse, M.A., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Safety and efficiency: Wind energy use in the field of tension between resource conditions and technological development since 1900
Prof. Dr. Matthias Heymann, Aarhus University, Denmark
Conclusion and closing remarks
Michael Just, Christian Graf & Frank Gensty, GF Casting Solutions, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Guided tours of the research laboratory of GF Casting Solutions
Elisabeth Kölmel, M.A., University of Wuppertal, Germany
Testing, researching, regulating between state, military, science and industry. Departmental research institutions in the transition from National Socialism to the Federal Republic of Germany using the example of the successor institutions of the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt 1945-1961
Prof. Dr. Timo Leimbach, Aarhus University, Denmark
The silver bullet or how to kill the quality “beast”
PhD cand. Simon Lobach, Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva, Switzerland
Environmental regulation and corporate off-shoring in the aluminium sector
Dr. Ing. habil. Bernd Lychatz, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany & Prof. Dr. Manfred Rasch, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
From the tensile test to X-ray apparatus and the electron microscope/EBCS: Quality assurance in industry and science using the example of iron metallurgy in Germany
Dr. Marius Mutz, University of Augsburg, Germany
Quality, quantity and order. The testing of technology at the Electoral Court of Saxony and the establishment of a dynastic trademark
PD Dr. Sybilla Nikolow, University of Bielefeld, Germany
“To create a substitute limb suitable for work”. Demands on arm prosthetics in the First World War
Dr. Panagiotis Poulopoulos, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
Optimising Operation, Reducing Risk: Aspects of Quality and Safety in the Development of the Steam Engine
PhD cand. Boyd Ruamcharoen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA, USA
Testing Environments: American Standards for Communications Technology in the Tropics in a Decolonizing World, 1950s–1980s
Sandra Schiller, GF Piping Systems, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Safe is safe? Quality and safety standards in product development at GF Piping Systems
Ralf Spicker, M.A., Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
A history of knowledge of the experiments of A. Wöhler and their establishment as a method of materials testing
Dr. des Malte Stöcken, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Research and testing of metals for authorities, industry and the military: The Department of Metals of the Prussian Materials Testing Office from 1871 to 1945
Claudia Sutter, M.A., Rechtsquellen SH, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Control by experts? Legislation for the Schaffhausen blacksmiths in the Middle Ages and early modern period