News

The HOTS program celebrates its 25th anniversary with a new book - Engineering in a Land-Grant Context.

SHOT moves to Ames
As of January 1, 2004, Professor Amy Bix became the secretary of the Society for the History of Technology and the executive office of the organization is now located with the HOTS program at Iowa State.

Visions of Space
James Andrews's Visions of Space Flight: K. E. Tsiolkovskii, Russian Popular Culture, and the Birth of Soviet Cosmonautics, 1857-1957 is coming.

Bix article
Amy Bix has a piece on the Koc museum in the new issue of Technology and Culture.

Carvens introduction
Hamilton Cravens wrote introduction to the new edition to Charles Darwin, Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (2004)

Stanley papers
Matt Stanley is working on papers for the History of Science Society and the International Society for Intellectual History. He has also completed an article for Physics World.

Wilson research
David Wilson is doing research on natural philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment and on the context of science in Victorian England.