Historical Approaches to Technical Creativity and Innovation
The conference aims to present historical approaches to innovative technology in many fields: from private enterprise to electrification, decolonization, locomotives, watchmaking and the ecological aspects of technology.
Date: October 3, 2024
Place: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, (Technická 2, Prague 6)
Language: French, English
Organizer: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague
Conference Programme
9:15
Introduction
Prof. PhDr. Marcela Efmertová, CSc. (Historical Laboratory of (Electro)Technology, FEL ČVUT v Praze a guarantor of the History of Science and Technology /HST/ doctoral study program)
9:30–10:00
Mobilizing Fernand Braudel to understand the history of companies
Prof. Éric GODELIER (École Polytechnique, Paris, France)
10:00-10:30
Internationalizing the modernization of higher technical education institutions in the Maghreb to better promote the conditions for the emergence of innovation and develop relations between science and local industries: issues, challenges and obstacles. A socio-historical and contemporary approach
Prof. Yamina BETTAHAR (Archives Henri Poincaré – Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France)
10:30-11:00
Fernand Braudel, a geo-historian of the company? the transformation of the engineers’ vision of space in the middle of the 20th century,
Prof. Alain P. MICHEL (Université d´Evry – Université Paris Saclay, France)
11:00-11:15
Diskuse / Discussion – Pause-café / coffee break
11:15-11:30
Václav Krečmer : The Innovative Clockmaker
Ing. David KNESPL (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
11:30-11:45
Electrification as an Innovative Factor in Housing Development in Slovakia between 1930 and 1960
Mgr. Martin Dominik HRTUS (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
11:45-12:00
Decolonization and challenges of Tunisia in the 1950s-1960s
MSc. Amani MANSOURI (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
12:00-12:15
Josef Božek’s precise astronomical clock as an example of the early application of modern engineering procedures in Czech watchmaking
Mgr. David HAMR (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
12:15-12:30
Diskuse / Discussion
12:45-13:45
Déjeuner / Lunch
14:00-14:15
Spark arrests in steam locomotives. Engineers’ technical responses to a safety and environmental protection
MSc. Jorge Alonso RODRIGUEZ Ortiz (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
14:15-14:30
EEmanuel Šlechta and technical innovations in production in the years 1927-1935
Ing. Jiří SEDLÁČEK (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
14:30-14:45
Military Research Institute 401 in the years 1963-1977: Innovations in military research
Mgr. Daniel KYSELKA (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
14:45-15:00
Ecological Aspects of the Masaryk Academy of Labour: Technical Innovations in Environmental Perspectives in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Mgr. Vít HOLEČEK, Ph.D. (Historická laboratoř (elektro)techniky FEL ČVUT v Praze)
15:00-15:15
Diskuse / Discussion
Conclusion
15:15-16:00
Meeting of the Barrande project team and PhD students of DSP HST with the scientific attaché of the French embassy in Prague, with Mrs. prof. Véronique Debord-Lazaro/Mme Stéphanie Legoupy and the director of CEFRES Prague Mr. Mateusz Chmurski