Dresden contributions to the history of technical sciences

Dresdener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften (DBGT) is published by Thomas Hänseroth on behalf of the Rector of TU Dresden. The journal has been appearing since 1980 and publishes original articles on all areas of the history of technology. A particular focus is on the history of technical knowledge and the history of technological science. In addition, articles are published that approach questions of the history of technology using interdisciplinary methods, such as economic and social history, the history of science, the philosophy of technology and the sociology of technology. There are no temporal or geographical restrictions. Where possible, the contributions received are compiled into annual issues.

Since issue 33 (2012), all contributions have also been made available online with a time delay. The retro-digitization of previously published issues has begun in cooperation with the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB).

Please send suggestions for articles and order requests directly to the editorial team at uwe.fraunholz@tu-dresden.de

Issue 33 (2012): Transcendence and public spirit

Thomas Hänseroth, Uwe Fraunholz: Foreword Download
Martin Schwarz: "The harshness of war demands hearts of steel." Self-images and images of German engineers during the National Socialist era (pp. 7-27) Download
Lars Bluma: "How much can a scientist do for his country?" Practice and self-perception of American engineers during the Cold War (pp. 29-55) Download
Detlev Fritsche: Technological optimism and the promise of progress. Electrical engineering in the technocratic high modern age (pp. 57-67) Download
Peggy Renger-Berka: References to transcendence and assertions of public spirit in talk of the "atomic age" in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1950s (pp. 69-81) Download
Sylvia Wölfel: From energy consumption to energy efficiency. Advertising for environmentally friendly household products in the Federal Republic and the GDR (pp. 83-96) Download

Issue 32 (2008): Science and Technology under National Socialism

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Sören Flachowsky: "The greatest secret of German technology". The development of the Ju 49 stratospheric airplane in the field of tension between science, industry and the military, 1926-1936 (pp. 3-32) Download
Mirko Buschmann: Through rationalization pressure to new paths? Mechanical engineering under National Socialism (pp. 33-57) Download
Heiko Stoff: Vitaminization and vitamin determination. Nutritional physiological research under National Socialism (pp. 59-93) Download
Uwe Fraunholz: "Utilization of the worthless". Biotechnological surrogates from unconventional protein sources under National Socialism (pp. 95-116) Download

Issue 31 (2006): Popularization of technology in the 20th century

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Günther Luxbacher: Workmanship with substitute materials? Exhibitions as a stage for German materials policy 1916-1942 (pp. 3-24) Download
Alfred Kirpal: Radio tinkering in Germany: Between economic pressure and leisure activities (pp. 25-47) Download
Stefan Poser: Austin-Roadstar and Atomic Lab. Popularizing technology through toys (pp. 49-64) Download
Ralf Pulla: Instructive entertainment. Technology propaganda in the GDR picture magazine MOSAIK (pp. 65-80) Download
Uwe Fraunholz: Master builders of the new society? Chemists and the chemical industry in DEFA feature films (pp. 81-103) Download
Andreas Lange: The computer strikes back. Paths to the home video game of the 1970s (pp. 105-116) Download

Issue 30 (2005): History of technology in the GDR

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Peter Nötzoldt: Technical sciences at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (p. 3-30) Download
Gerhard Barkleit: Stakeholder in a state of emergency. Manfred von Ardenne and the concept of multi-step therapies (pp. 31-60) Download
Hans-Christian Herrmann: Imported know-how. Ways to modernize GDR vehicle construction in the 1970s and 1980s (pp. 61-83) Download
Gerolf Thienel: Lost in the jungle of productive forces. The Brazilian business of the VEB Motorradwerk Zschopau in the 1980s (pp. 85-104) Download
Detlev Fritsche: With prototype reconstruction to the world peak? PC software in the last years of the GDR (pp. 105-123) Download

Issue 29 (2004): Technization of the human body

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Rudolf Drux: The literary machine man and his technological antiquatedness. Interrelations between the history of literature and technology (pp. 3-19) Download
Ortrun Riha: The mechanization of the body and bodily functions in 19th and 20th century medicine (pp. 21-42) Download
Matthias Dietze: Pure, clean and healthy! The human body in the field of tension between popularized hygiene and public health care in Dresden from 1850 to 1911 (pp. 43-68) Download
Martina Blum and Thomas Wieland: Technicized desires. Technology and sexuality in the 20th century (pp. 69-88) Download
Ralf Pulla: Cycling as a "machine sport". The mechanization of sports equipment and athletes in the 20th century (pp. 89-118) Download

Issue 28 (2003): The history of innovation in the GDR

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Dolores L. Augustine: Werner Hartmann and the development of the microelectronics industry in the GDR (pp. 3-32) Download
Uwe Fraunholz: Mobilizing the "productive power of science"? The universities and the GDR's chemistry program in the 1950s and 1960s (pp. 33-70) Download
Manuel Schramm: Double helix and triple helix. Biotechnology at the Universities of Halle and Braunschweig from 1970 to 2000 (pp. 71-92) Download
Axel Doßmann: To the beat of party and machines? Planning, technology and practice in highway construction in the GDR after 1961 (pp. 93-117) Download
Peter Kirchberg: The implantation of the VW engine in GDR automobile construction. A report on the history of innovation in the GDR (pp. 119-129) Download

Issue 27 (2001)

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Mikael Hård: "The Practice of Research" - On the Everydayness of Technical Sciences using the Example of a British Engineering Company (pp. 1-17) Download
Johannes Abele: "Magic wand of nuclear science" - Hans Geiger and the magic of nuclear technology (pp. 19-25) Download
Werner Luck: Erich Schumann and the student company of the Army Ordnance Office - A contemporary witness report (pp. 27-45) Download
Jérôme Segal: Cybernetics in the GDR - An encounter with Marxist ideology (pp. 47-75) Download
Falk Seliger: "Art" or science in structural engineering? On dealing with forms of knowledge in the 20th century (pp. 77-91) Download

Issue 26 (1999): Representational sources in the history of technology

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Gerhard Zweckbronner: Material sources in the history of technology (pp. 2-13)
Astrid Schürmann: The water clock in the Tower of the Winds as a figurative source for the history of technology in antiquity (pp. 14-34)
Jobst Broelmann: Contemporary witness or time machine? Objects as "representational sources" and their use and treatment in technical museums (pp. 35-42)
Kornelius Götz: A Mannheim backyard façade in the museum: documentation - translocation - conservation - reconstruction (pp. 43-53)
Volker Benad-Wagenhoff: Proposals for the organization of the machine tool building object group (pp. 54-73)
Jürgen Ruby: New findings from the commissioning and video documentation of a turret lathe in the Museum of Transport and Technology in Berlin (pp. 74-84)
Reiner Bappert: AV documentation of work contexts in functional ensembles: the example of Intarsienwerkstoff Wölfel, Stuttgart (pp. 85-93)
Margot Fuchs: How "flatware" can open up "3-D objects". The application of historical methods for researching technical material sources using the example of the gutta-percha press from Siemens & Halske (pp. 94-111)

Issue 25 (1998)

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Jörg Roesler: Economic policy of the GDR - autarky versus international division of labor (pp. 2-14)
Bernd Falter: The "technological gap" - on the backwardness of the GDR's microelectronic industry (pp. 15-38)
Reinhard Buthmann: The structural anchoring of the MfS in science, engineering and technology (pp. 39-70)
Gerhard Barkleit: Microchips as a "wonder weapon" - high technology in the centrally planned economy of the GDR (pp. 71-88)
Ralf Pulla: On the structural significance of the university in the institutionalized large-scale rocket research and development of the Third Reich (pp.89-104)

Issue 24 (1996)

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Rolf Sonnemann: The concept of the history of productive forces in GDR historiography (pp. 1-19)
Thomas Hänseroth, Klaus Mauersberger: The Dresden Concept for the Genesis of Technical Science Disciplines - A Review (pp. 20-45)
Otfried Wagenbreth: Looking back and looking ahead, 50 years of work for the history of science and technology (pp. 46-62)
Martin Trautz: Palladio's wooden bridge inventions from the third book of the "Four Books on Architecture" (1570), an early chapter in the theory of truss structures (pp. 63-73)
Karl-Eugen Kurrer: Notes on the relationship between text, image and symbol in the classical basic disciplines of technical science from 1800 to 1950 (pp. 74-98)

Issue 23/2 (1994): Drawing, graphics, image in technical sciences and architecture - supplement and image section

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Klaus Mauersberger: Visual thinking and non-verbal knowledge in mechanical engineering (pp. 7-11)
Otfried Wagenbreth: The woodcuts in Georgius Agricola's book "De re metallica" (1556) in the history of technical drawing (pp. 12-16)
Michael Mende: Models and drawings: Descriptiveness as a principle of education in mechanical engineering and technology during the 19th century (pp. 17-23)
Irmela Gorges: CAD research in the USA, France and Germany between 1955 and 1985 (pp. 24-30)
Yves Deforge: Quelques apercus sur le rôle du dessin, dans la conception et la réalization d'objets, petits ou gros ... (S. 31-37)
Abstracts and illustrations of the contributions (pp. 39-151)

Issue 23/1 (1994): Drawing, graphics, image in technical sciences and architecture

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Wolfgang Schöller: The development of architectural drawing in the High Gothic period (pp. 2-9)
Eberhard Knobloch: Technical drawings in the Middle Ages (pp. 10-19)
Werner Müller, Norbert Quien: Problems of visual communication in late Gothic building technology (pp. 20-26)
Franz Bischoff: "Hulczin visierung" or "muster": source-critical considerations on the method of late and post-medieval building planning with the aid of models north of the Alps (pp. 27-38)
Werner Lorenz: The Producer's Gaze - On the Genealogy of Architectural Drawing (pp. 39-44)
Antoine Picon: Architectural and technical design in eighteenth century France (pp. 45-52)
Holger Falter: Safety in the structural design process, a question of recognition and representation (pp. 53-61)
Edoardo Benvenuto: Origin of the Graphic Calculation (pp. 62-69)
Andreas Kahlow: Jean Victor Poncelet and the difficulties of visual thinking in the classical technical sciences (pp. 70-78)
Karl-Eugen Kurrer: From graphic statics to graphostatics. The reception of Culmann's theoretical program by classical structural analysis (pp. 79-86)
Ralf Weber, Yun Choi, Lawrence Stark: Experimental studies on spatial perception. An interim report on the application of oculometric methods in architectural research (pp. 87-96)

Issue 22 (1994)

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Reinhard Mocek: An attempt to take stock of the theory of science in the GDR, origins - contents - deficits - prospects (pp. 1-30)
Alfred Kirpal: Origins and history of modern technical-scientific disciplines and technical fields - theoretical approaches and the example of the development of semiconductor electronics (pp. 31-45)
Klaus-Peter Meinicke: Dechema - a society at the interface between science and technology (pp. 46-69)
Frank Dittmann: On the development of the scientific foundations of electrical drive technology (pp. 70-88)

Issue 21 (1993): Controversy, communication and theory in the technical sciences

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Wolfgang König: Cognitive and social aspects of the technical sciences (pp. 2-13)
Karl-Eugen Kurrer: On the genesis of the controversy surrounding classical structural analysis (pp. 14-25)
Stefan Poloniy: Science of an imagined world (pp. 26-36)
Andreas Kahlow: Leonard Euler and the projects for a long-span Neva bridge in St. Petersburg (pp. 37-45)
Eckhard Bolenz: The technical professions in construction, organization and professional politics in Prussia/Germany, 1799-1931 (pp. 46-63)
Volker Stöhr: The German machine tool industry and automobile construction, 1900-1930 (pp. 64-80)
Maria Osietzki: Mastering technology and striving for emancipation. Oskar von Miller and his museum for the people and elites (pp. 81-89)
Klaus-Dieter Herbst: Measuring with micrometers in astronomy and technology (pp. 90-96)
Rosemarie Wagner: The work of bridge builders in the 19th century (pp. 97-112)

Issue 20 (1992): On the emergence of technical-scientific disciplines (10)

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Karl-Eugen Kurrer: The dispute over the foundation of classical structural analysis (pp. 1-28)
Klaus Mauersberger: Technical innovations at the intersection of physics and practical mechanics - a contribution to forgotten inventions (pp. 29-39)
Otfried Wagenbreth: Historiography as a criterion for the development of a science using the example of the mining sciences (pp. 40-46)
Klaus Mauersberger: Interview with Prof. John Beer, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (USA) on May 7, 1991 (pp. 47-61)
Klaus Mauersberger: Technology and history: "Kranzberg's laws" (pp. 62-74)
Gerhard Wissmann: Aviation research and aviation technology in the Third Reich 1933-1945 (pp. 75-101)

Issue 19 (1991): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (9)

Thomas Hänseroth: Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Gisela Buchheim deceased (p. 4)
Klaus-Peter Meinicke: The Process of Theory Formation in the Formation Period of Process Engineering, Theses (pp. 5-17)
Otfried Wagenbreth: A periodization of the mining sciences in correlation with the general history of science and the history of technology (pp. 18-25)
Michael Kastner: The development of the theory of gears and the contribution of scientists at the TH Dresden (pp. 26-44)
Manfred Möhring: Some aspects of early information development in the GDR, especially in Dresden and Jena (pp. 45-54)
Klaus Mauersberger: The influence of state science policy on educational concepts at German technical universities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (pp. 55-64)
Thomas Hänseroth: Willy Gehler (1876-1953) - On the dichotomy of a civil engineer and engineering scientist (pp. 65-75)
Gerhard Wissmann: Hugo Junkers (1859-1935) - Technician, scientist and entrepreneur (pp. 76-92)

Issue 18 (1989): On the history of technical sciences (conceptions)

Hubert Laitko: History of the technological sciences - their intrinsic value and their significance for the general history of science (pp. 3-47)
Gerhard Zweckbronner: Legitimation problems of technical sciences in the 19th century (pp. 48-52)
Klaus Mauersberger: Leonardo da Vinci's designs of curve mechanisms - Study (pp. 53-102)

Issue 17 (1989): On the history of engineering education and the engineering profession

Lothar Striebing: Laudatory speech on the 60th birthday of Prof. Dr. rer. oec. et phil. Habil. Rolf Sonnemann (pp. 3-8)
Werner Pfuhl: University foundations, social conditions and conceptions of content (pp. 9-17)
Klaus Mauersberger: The development of technical universities and their educational concepts in the 19th century (pp. 18-36)
Susann Hensel: On mathematical teaching in the structure of engineering education at German technical universities in the 19th century (pp. 37-55)
Ernst Gießmann: The influence of the development of natural and technical sciences on the training of agricultural specialists in the 19th century (pp. 56-79)
Klaus-Peter Meinicke, Klaus Krug: The training of chemical engineers up to the First World War (pp. 80-92)

Issue 16 (1988): On the history of automation between the industrial and scientific-technical revolution

Walter Becker: Industrial revolution - scientific-technical revolution: Methodological and economic history (pp. 4-8)
Siegried Dorn, Thomas Böhm: Defining principles of the concept of automation (pp. 9-12)
B. I. Iwanow: History of automation and the development of technical sciences (pp. 13-15)
Siegfried H. Richter: The beginnings of automation in manufacturing technology between the industrial and scientific-technical revolution, 1870-1945 (pp. 16-20)
Karin Zachmann: The beginnings of automation on a mechanical basis in the German textile industry before the First World War (pp. 21-24)
Uta Sieberth: Innovations, flow production - breakthrough to modern mass production in the polygraphic industry in the course of the second industrialization phase in Germany (pp. 25-28)
Erika Gerber: Mechanization and the beginnings of automation in the photographic industry (pp. 29-31)
Volker Stöhr: On some aspects of the beginnings of automation in selected areas of the metalworking industry (pp. 32-36)
Ines Vetter: On some aspects of mechanization in the cigarette industry between 1870 and 1913 (pp. 37-40)
Gerd Henniger: Electrification and mechanization of industry at the turn of the century (pp. 41-44)
Peter Schubert: Electrical engineering - the driving force behind automation (pp. 45-49)
Siegfried Zoels: On the design development of electrical switchboards, 1880-1914 (pp. 50-52)
Klaus-Harro Tiemann: Electrical time transmissions in the 19th century (pp. 53-56)
Alfred Kirpal: On the connection between automation technology and transistor electronics (pp. 57-60)
Peter Bartsch: Early automata for information processing (pp. 61-64)
Michael Meyer: Automatic data acquisition in shipbuilding testing in the seventies of the 19th century (pp. 65-68)
Klaus-Peter Meinicke, Klaus Krug: The work of the factory control departments in the chemical industry, 1920-1945 (pp. 69-71)
Peter Lange: Automation in the silicate industry (pp. 72-76)
Michael Ketting: Alternating flow production as a forerunner of flexible automation solutions (pp. 77-81)
André Steiner: Single-purpose automation in machine and vehicle construction in the GDR from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. Results and limits (pp. 82-84)
Suren Ashibokov: On automation and some problems of its development in the USSR in the 1950s (pp. 85-88)
Andreas Kahlow: Connections between scientification, standardization and automation from the perspective of the history of science using the example of the development of materials and strength research in the 19th century (pp. 89-92)
Hans Röpke: I. A. Wyschnergradski - a pioneer of control theory (pp. 93-95)

Issue 15 (1988): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (8)

Klaus-Peter Meinicke: The historical development of similarity theory (pp. 3-54)
Siegfried H. Richter: On the history of automation (pp. 55-71)
Rolf Sonnemann: On the history of automation between industrial and scientific-technical revolution, conference report (pp. 72-84)

Issue 14 (1987): On the emergence of technical associations (2)

Siegried H. Richter: On the origins, development, working methods and effectiveness of the Committee for Economic Production and the Working Group of German Industrial Engineers in the 1920s (pp. 3-30)
Bernhard Sorms: On the beginnings of the German Electrochemical Society, 1894 (pp. 31-37)
Rainer Sennewald: Driving forces, obstacles and international significance of the work of the Societät der Bergbaukunde (pp. 38-44)
Andreas Kahlow: August Wöhler and the development of strength and materials research in the 19th century (pp. 45-67)
Walter Purkert, Susann Hensel: On the role of mathematics in the development of technical sciences, 2nd part (pp. 68-93)

Issue 13 (1987): On the emergence of technical associations (1)

Gisela Buchheim: Preliminary remarks (p. 3)
Gisela Buchheim: On the foundation of technical associations in the second half of the 19th century (pp. 4-10)
Wolfgang Schlicker: Heavy industry and the development of science. The rise of ferrous metallurgy and the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute (VDEh) in the late 19th century (pp. 11-29)
Werner Fröhling: The foundation and development of the Institution of Naval Architects against the background of some tendencies in shipbuilding and shipbuilding science disciplines in the second half of the 19th century (pp. 30-35)
Michael Meyer: Some remarks on the history of the Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft (pp. 36-41)
Klaus-Harro Tiemann: On the founding history and effectiveness of the Association for Chronometry around 1900 (pp. 42-52)
Klaus-Peter Meinicke, Klaus Krug: The impact of scientific societies on the development of chemical engineering. American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Institute of Chemical Engineers (pp. 53-68)
Harald Kegler: The path to the founding of the German Society for Urban and Regional Planning - a contribution to the relationship between disciplinary and institutional development (pp. 69-74)
Martin Guntau: Scientific societies and disciplinary knowledge in the history of science - an excerpt (pp. 75-89)

Issue 12 (1986): On the emergence of technical-scientific disciplines (7)

Alfred Kirpal: The development of transistor production from its beginnings to mass production (pp. 3-39)
Peter Schubert: On the genesis of the theory and calculation of electromagnetic energy converters as a leading discipline in the development of electrical engineering as a technical science discipline, theses (pp. 40-50)
Andreas Jenkner: On the development of the fields of work and measurement technology in experimental research at the machine laboratory of the TH Dresden under Prof. Richard Mollier in the first third of our century (pp. 51-72)
Peter Lange: The development of silicate technology as a discipline of engineering sciences, theses (pp. 73-81)

Issue 11 (1986): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (6)

Walter Purkert, Susann Hensel: On the role of mathematics in the development of the technological sciences (pp. 3-53)
B. I. Kozlov: Technoscientific knowledge in the science-production system. Genesis, development and current problems of research (pp. 54-74)
Peter Lange: The contribution of Friedrich Siemens (1826-1904) to the development of regenerative firing and the furnace melting process (pp. 75-88)
Hans-Georg Schöpf: Fourier's "Theorie analytiqe de la chaleur" (pp. 89-95)

Issue 10 (1984): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (5)

Siegfried H. Richter: Methodological development and methodological disputes in the teaching and research of mechanical technology in Germany in the 19th century (pp. 3-42)
Bernhard Sorms: On the development of technical electrochemistry (pp. 43-67)
Klaus Mauersberger: On the development of experimentation in the technical sciences with special consideration of material testing within scientific mechanical engineering (pp. 68-103)

Issue 9 (1984): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (4)

Gerhard Banse: Theory and practice in the development of technical sciences and engineering work (pp. 1-25)
Thomas Hänseroth: On the social conditionality of the development of the technological sciences: a case study (pp. 26-42)
Klaus Mauersberger: Inherent tendencies in the development of the engineering sciences (pp. 43-65)
Bernhard Sorms: Thoughts on the relationship between the technological and the constructive in the development of technological science disciplines (pp. 66-71)
Gisela Buchheim: On some questions of the periodization of the technological sciences (pp. 72-83)

Issue 8 (1984): On the development of technical science disciplines

Bernhard Sorms: Some aspects of the relationship between the natural and technical sciences in the development of technical electrochemistry (pp. 3-8)
Ernst Gießmann: On the development of agricultural engineering (pp. 9-16)
Klaus Mauersberger: Sources and development of technical-scientific methods in mechanics and mechanical engineering (pp. 17-23)
Werner Fröhling: On the development of shipbuilding mechanics in the 19th century (pp. 24-32)
Thomas Hänseroth: On the influence of construction mechanics on the development of new building constructions in the period of formation and first phase of consolidation, 1700-1870 (pp. 33-39)
Otfried Wagenbreth: The development of mining machine technology and its integration into scientific mechanical engineering (pp. 40-50)
Karin Zachmann: Industrial development and theory formation - the relevance of the development of the chemical fiber industry for the implementation of macromolecular theory (pp. 51-57)
J. Schäfer: The development of texturing processes (pp. 58-80)

Issue 7 (1983)

Klaus Mauersberger: Study material for the lecture Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften / Maschinenwesen, Part 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur Herausbildungsperiode (pp. 1-109)

Issue 6 (1983): On the history of the formation and development of technical science disciplines

Gisela Buchheim: On the History of the Formation and Development of Technical Science Disciplines - Summary of the Discussion (pp. 7-12)
B. I. Ivanov: Methodological principles of an analysis of the technological sciences (pp. 13-16)
Eberhard Wächtler: Manufacture and the technological sciences (p. 17)
Karin Zachmann: Industrial development and theory formation - the relevance of the development of the chemical fiber industry for the implementation of macromolecular theory (p. 18)
Thomas Hänseroth: On the influence of building mechanics on the development of new building constructions in the period of their emergence and first phase of consolidation, 1700-1870 (p. 19)
Jürgen Bäzge: On the influence of technical sciences on 19th century rolling mill construction (p. 20)
Ryszard Sroczyński: The development of the empirical foundations in the theory of magnetism up to Gilbert (1600) as the first stage in the emergence of modern electrical engineering (p. 21)
Wolfgang Schreier: On early scientifically based predictions of electrotelegraphy and its transfer to production (pp. 22-24)
Horst Binkau: The relationship between natural and technical science thermodynamics from a philosophical perspective - using the example of the main theorems of thermodynamics (p. 25)
Horst Kant: The development of solid-state physics as the scientific basis of solid-state electronics (p. 26)
Bernhard Sorms: Some aspects of the relationship between the natural and technical sciences in the development of technical electrochemistry (pp. 27-28)
Wolfgang Girnus: Classical physical chemistry and chemical technology at the turn of the 20th century - thoughts on their interaction (pp. 29-30)
Rüdiger Stolz: Factors influencing the development of synthetic organic dyes in the second half of the 19th century in the field of tension between socio-economic conditions, scientific possibilities and technical production realization (p. 31)
Eugeniusz Olszewski: On the development of technical sciences (pp. 32-34)
Werner Fröhling: On some aspects of the development of shipbuilding mechanics as a technical science (p. 35)
Peter Schubert: The contribution of magnetic circuit calculation to the development of electrical engineering as a technical science discipline (pp. 36-37)
Alfred Kirpal: On the development of the technical-scientific cognitive process in semiconductor electronics (p. 38)
Klaus Mauersberger: The development of scientific engineering methods in mechanics and mechanical engineering (pp. 39-40)
- Detlef Dietrich: Formation and development of the science of technology (pp. 41-47)
H. Greiner: Approaches to solutions and current tasks for overcoming the problem of technology (p. 48)
Zotscho Kumanov: History of technology - an opinion (p. 49)
Friedrich Naumann: Information processing as a technological scientific discipline - some problems of its development (pp. 50-51)
Peter Lange: Relations between the industrial revolution and the emergence of silicate technology as a discipline of technical science (pp. 52-53)
Ditmar Schneider: Some specific conditions for the development of process engineering in Germany (pp. 54-55)
Klaus Krug: Main aspects of the historical development of process engineering (pp. 56-58)
Otfried Wagenbreth: The development of mining engineering and its integration into scientific engineering (p. 59)
Ernst Gießmann: The development of agricultural engineering (p. 60)
Heike Etzold: On the development of technology in forestry in the 1920s (p. 61)
Lothar Hiersemann: Jacob Leupold's contribution to the development of the mechanical arts into a technical science (p. 62)
H. Stützner, R. Feige: Thoughts and ideas on the history of technical education in Germany and the GDR (pp. 63-64)
Werner Heier: On the function of state science policy in the FRG (pp. 65-66)
Herbert Letsch: Remarks on a concept of industrial aesthetics (pp. 67-68)
Bernhard Sieberth: Examples of capitalist and communal political factors influencing engineering development work on industrial energy supply (p. 69)
Tadeusz Szpineter: The beginnings of electroenergetics on Polish soil (p. 70)
Hans Wenzel: First considerations on the development of the scientific system of civil engineering (p. 71)

Issue 5 (1982): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (3)

Thomas Hänseroth: German bridge building at a crossroads: Johann Andreas Schubert and the Göltzschtal Bridge - on the 175th birthday of an important technician and university teacher from the time of the industrial revolution in Germany (pp. 1-10)
Klaus Krug: The development of technology as a science - the pre-period of process engineering (pp. 11-41)
Peter Lange: Preconditions for the development of silicate technology as a technical science discipline (pp. 42-54)
Siegfried H. Richter: Technoscientific approaches in Beckmann's technology
Klaus Mauersberger: The work of Jacob Leupold (1674-1727) in the run-up to the machine sciences (pp. 84-102)
Klaus Mauersberger: Germs of the technical sciences in the bosom of the natural sciences using the example of the work of Leonhard Euler (pp. 103-126)

Issue 4 (1982)

Gisela Buchheim: The Founding History of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1872 to 1887, Part 2: The Efforts to Found the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 1884-1887 (pp. 1-102)

Booklet 3 (1981)

Gisela Buchheim: The founding history of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt from 1872 to 1887, Part 1: The efforts to found a mechanical Institute under the sovereignty of the Prussian state, 1872-1884 (pp. 1-93)

Issue 2 (1980): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (2)

Klaus Mauersberger: The development of technical mechanics and its contribution to the scientificization of mechanical engineering (pp. 1-52)
Gisela Buchheim: On some prerequisites for the emergence of electrical engineering as a discipline of technical science (pp. 53-67)
Hans-Dieter Lohmann: The development of technical thermodynamics in Germany in the 19th century (pp. 68-85)

Issue 1 (1980): On the emergence of technical science disciplines (1)

Rolf Sonnemann: Preface (pp. 4-11)
Gisela Buchheim: On the emergence of the technological sciences - problems of scientific-historical studies (pp. 12-34)
Thomas Hänseroth: On the prehistory of construction mechanics (pp. 35-72)
Otfried Wagenbreth: Interactions between geology and mining sciences in the process of their development, 13th - 19th century in Central Europe (pp. 73-98)
Bernhard Sorms: The development of chemical technology into a science (pp. 99-114)