History of Technology

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE

15101143 HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY (4^th semester ) 5 ECTS

Instructor: Arapostathis (up to 15 students)

Introductory course to the history and historiography of technological change. The emphasis is placed on the history of technology in modernity and, more specifically, on key examples of artifacts that were initially introduced as universal (steam engine, electric dynamo, electronic computer). Selected comparisons between modern and pre-modern technologies are also included.