@article{Lackner_Luxbacher_1992, title={Zur Entwicklung der Technikgeschichte in Deutschland und Österreich}, volume={3}, url={https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oezg/article/view/5501}, DOI={10.25365/oezg-1992-3-3-2}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">A </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">modern </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">history of technology </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">must </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">concern itself </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">with the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">origins of technology, its use </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">social repercussions, as well as </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">with the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">machines </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">and products </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">of industry. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">This </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">discipline, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">though </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">comparatively new, has its own history. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">In </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Germany </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Austria, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">most </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">important </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">historians </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">of </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">technology were for a long </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">time </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">engineers. Equally, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">it </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">was engineers </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">technicians who received </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">greatest publicity after </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">foundations of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Vienna Technical Museum. Eventually, some historians also began </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">to </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">deal </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">with the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">history of technology. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">The </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">most </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">important </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">of </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">historians who integrated aspects of technical development </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">in </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">their work before World War II were </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Karl </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Lamprecht </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Franz Schnabel. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">On </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">this basis, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">history of technology became </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">an </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">academic historical disciplin in Germany after 1960. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">In </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">Austria, a comparable </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">tradition </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">has </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">not </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">so far emerged. </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">But </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">there are some indications </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">that </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">a new generation </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">of </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">historians will fill this gap, </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">and </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">establish </span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">the </span><span style="font-size: 9.000000pt; font-family: ’Times’; color: rgb(35.690000%, 38.040000%, 32.160000%);">history of technology as a new historical discipline. </span></p> </div> </div> </div>}, number={3}, journal={Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften}, author={Lackner, Helmut and Luxbacher, Günther}, year={1992}, month={Aug.}, pages={279–292} }