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67495 History of Technology
Danish title: Teknologihistorie
Language: Danish Credit points: 5
Type: Ph.D.-level, Open University
Language: Danish

Previous course: C8819
No credit points with: C8819
Prerequisite: .
Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
Scope and form: 2 lecture modules per week and excursion.
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13-scale)
Participant limitation: max. 25

Contact person: Klaus Poul Thiesen, Building 501, Tel. +45 4525 5974, email thiesen@lanmai.ilf.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Planning
Aim: To give the students a theoretical understanding of technology history which enables them to look at questions about the relationship between sciences, technology and society in a historical perspective, and to use this knowledge at present situations.
Contents: To analyse and evaluate the relationship between the development of science, technology and society and the impact on environment and resources - and then to use this knowledge at present situations by lectures on the development of the steam engine and the history of Danish industry and transport 1750 - 1880.