Conrad Matschoss price of the VDI for technology history 2008

Conrad Matschoss, 1871 - 1942, understood technology history not as a history of the inventions, but as a historical Teildiszplin, which stands in close relationship to the economics and social history. It regarded technology history as a range of the education, with which on the one hand Nichttechniker can be advanced to the technology and be opened with on the other hand technicians and engineers the other ranges of the culture should. It succeeded to it to establish technology history as recognized Disziplim in the science enterprise. it received the first training order in Germany for "history of the mechanical engineering" to 1909 to the TH Berlin Charlottenburg. - in the VDI it, apart from its activity as a VDI director, had a substantial portion of the establishment of the specialized group at that time technology history in the year 1930. The VDI writes the Conrad Matschoss price out of the VDI for technology history 2008. It is endowed with 3.000 euro.Application conclusion: 31. July 2007. The VDI depends it, completely in the sense of the name giver, on it, to promote both: the technology-historical research and the interest of the public in technology history. With the advertisement we invite above all journalists for fluid media to submit for picture-giving media and for sound broadcasting as well as historian, museum coworker, archivists, monument conservators as well as engineers and scientists, their application. The technical quality of the work and good comprehensibility not only for a specialized public are for us equivalent criteria for the evaluation of the Arbeiten.  written contributions must in three copies as well as additionally on an electronic file medium be submitted. Each contribution must an edited version by maximally two sides and a vocational/scientific personal record be attached.Competition work - published usually or for publication lining up books, television and video productions, radio contributions and audio features - must have been locked in the year 2006 or 2007. Written contributions may not cover any more than 400 sides. Video and audio contributions are to lie between 45 and 90 minutes. The Conrad Matschoss price 2008 will assign on the technology-historical annual convention of the VDI on 7 February 2008 in Duesseldorf. - prominent technique historians as well as representatives of technology-oriented museums and from the journalism belong to the jury.