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HIST 285 - Technology in Historical Perspective

Professor Lloyd Ackert

Department of History & Politics

Drexel University

Office: 5024 MacAlister Hall; lta24@drexel.edu

Office Phone: 215-895-0993

Cell: 518-965-3562

You will work on a theme and format of your choice to investigate a topic in the history of technology between 1500-1980.

Let’s review the available tools and professional guidance for you to start and develop your projects. How can you address the Learning Priority of “Information Literacy?”

- Larry Milliken, Liaison Librarian for the Humanities and Social Sciences

- Jay Bhatt, Liaison Librarian for Engineering

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Hagerty Library, 2nd Floor

Topics might be:

1) the technical innovations created or research conducted in a particular geographic region

- Mechanical Objects

2) institutions of science and technology,

- Companies, Laboratories, Academies, Societies

3) the individuals or communities working in technology

- Biographies

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

The first zipper(1870-1914) The first zipper impacted America by making it easier to put on clothes.

Friedel, Robert D. Zipper : an exploration in novelty (New York : W.W. Norton, [1994]) Hagerty 2nd Floor Books T19 .F75 1994

To complete this research you will need to locate:

one or more primary historical sources (documents written during the time you are focusing on and by scientists, or science administrators working in the city).

Examples:

A diary excerpt from Leonardo Da Vinci

A Patent of Perkins’ dye

Scientific publication related to Nuclear Bomb research.

A quote of Thomas Edison in a scholarly biography of him.

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Dye Label

2) at least two secondary historical sources that place the primary sources in their historical context (works written by contemporary historians).

1) Examples:

a) A book (monograph) on the history of technology

b) A documentary about the history of the Panama Canal

c) An encyclopedia entry about Pulicat? (Weak)

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Map of the fort at Paliacatte

Merritt Roe Smith

3) a map of the region during the time period (or close to it).

Joseph Minard’s statistical graph of Napoleon’s attack on Moscow (1812).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Michael Friendly “The Graphic Works of Charles Joseph Minard”

http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/minbib.php

3) Where to find the resources.

a) Hagerty Library Summon searches (https://www.library.drexel.edu/)

- keywords and refinements

b) JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy2.library.drexel.edu/)

- scholarly sources almost always

c) Databases:

- Engineering Village

(http://www.engineeringvillage.com.ezproxy2.library.drexel.edu/search/quick.url#

- History of Science, Technology & Medicine

(http://libguides.library.drexel.edu/go.php?c=6622500)

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Drexel University Libraries (Hagerty)

- Research Support (https://www.library.drexel.edu/research-support)

- Liaison Librarians

Larry Milliken (larry.milliken@drexel.edu)

Humanities and Social Sciences

Hagerty Library, Room 128

215.895.2765

- Library Guides (http://libguides.library.drexel.edu /)

- HIST 285 (http://libguides.library.drexel.edu/history-of-technology)

Jay Bhatt, bhattjj @ drexel.edu

Engineering

Hagerty Library, Room 127

215.895.1873

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Student Presentation Committee

Since only 16 students will be able to present their projects in class, a group of students will be asked to volunteer to form a selection committee.

Their task, working with the instructors, will be to choose the presenters and organize the two presentation schedules.

This work will take the place of their research project (yet will require a short essay discussing the process).

Research Project & “Information Literacy”

Title: Leonardo da Vinci: 15th and 16th Century Ground Breaking Inventions

Course: HIST 285 – 001

Leonardo da Vinci is known as one of the greatest inventors of the 15th and 16th century. Da Vinci was a painter, inventor, architect and a student of anything scientific. Da Vinci worked on a lot of different projects that many people know today most of them are paintings. In Leonardo da Vinci time, he was known more for his paintings and less for his engineering until his later years of life. Leonardo Da Vinci had many great inventions that, if were given the time, could have changed the course of history. The research paper will cover Leonardo da Vinci life and where he studied at. The research will also cover all his inventions from the beginning to the end. The paper will also discuss the inventions that were used today that were not recognized until a later date like his parachute and tank idea. Leonardo also had done a lot of research on the human body that was not noticed until after the renaissance period. So to further go into detail on the project proposal, the paper will talk about all of Leonardo’s completed works to all his finished works while also showing that even though his inventions were crazy for his time period that they were great inventions and had solid research to back it all up. Leonardo’s book could have changed the world and gave more people understand if his information was out to the public.

Bibliography

Leonardo, and Kenneth G. Ponting. Drawings of Textile Machines. Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire: Moonraker, 1979. Print.

Leonardo, and H. Anna. Suh. Leonardo's Notebooks. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005. Print.

National Geographic World History Biographies: Hatshepsut. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2005. Print.

A History of the Tampon: The Impact of Menstrual Technology on Gender Roles

HIST 285 Proposal:

The topic I plan to explore is the evolution of feminine hygiene technology, specifically the tampon, from the nineteenth through the twentieth century. I will focus on Western technological development, especially Britain and the United States, and how this development reflected societal views of gender roles. First uses of a tampon similar in concept to today’s tampons occurred in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but at the time, they were not used for menstruation (but rather other medical uses). The commercial introduction of the tampon occurred in the early 1900’s. The societal response to it was at first disapproving, and well into the twentieth century, there continued to be a substantial group of people who condemned use of the tampon as impure and inappropriate, especially for young, unmarried women. People, including physicians, feared the misuse of the tampon for contraception or masturbation, and believed that the hymen would break upon first use. Societal views of menstrual technology like the tampon began to shift when the need arose for women to enter the workforce during World War I. Women who wore tampons were able to perform the duties necessary for work even during menstruation, and the practicality of the tampon began to be openly advertised. During the twentieth century, commercial growth of disposable menstrual technologies led to further innovation. Widespread use of tampons gave women the ability to perform manual labor, play sports, be active, and otherwise participate in activities that men could. Thus gender roles were greatly impacted, especially those concerning work, and related to that, independence. This topic relates directly to the course’s goal of examining technology’s role in society, as I will be discussing how the development of menstrual technology impacted gender roles, giving women the freedom to participate in activities they might not have been able to before (especially activities that allowed them to become part of the workforce).

Primary source: “Tampons in Menstruation,” a correspondence from a physician published in the British Medical Journal in 1942 discouraging the use of tampons by “young unmarried girls” (see bibliography)  This source is a primary source because it is a publication from the time period that I will be discussing when describing the introduction of tampons for menstrual use. I will use it to demonstrate the societal view on tampons, menstruation, and female sexuality at the time.

Secondary sources: see bibliography  The secondary sources listed further describe societal views on menstruation over the course of history. They describe the takeoff of menstrual technologies commercially and why that was able to happen despite initial views like the one demonstrated in the primary source.

Bibliography Brander, M.S. “Tampons in Menstruation.” British Medical Journal 1(4239) (1942): 452. Delaney, Janice, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth. The Curse. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976. Freidenfelds, Lara. The Modern Period. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Gutcho, Marcia H. Tampons and Other Catamenial Receptors. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Data Corporation, 1979.

Research Project Schedule:

Week 2

Research Seminar

In-Class orientation to locate appropriate sources, relevant databases, and historical guides.

Week 3

Project Proposal

Submit a 250-word project proposal with a short description of the project and a preliminary bibliography.

Week 5

Essay Outline

Submit a descriptive outline (rubric to be provided on Learn).

Week 7

Drafts

Submit a rough draft your project.

Week 10

Final Presentations

All students will make an oral presentation of their research. Some will do this by presenting in class, and some in a Discussion Board.

Last day of class

Final Drafts

Submitted to Turnitin on Learn.

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