Under the motto «Good, Durable and Safe», the theme of this year's annual conference of the Iron Library Foundation was the interplay between safety and quality in the history of technology.
In his conference report, Niklaus Müller reviews the wide range of case studies presented by a large panel of international speakers and highlights the value of the interdisciplinary approach and the careful attention paid to technical processes in their interactions with social factors, which serves an innovative historiography of technology that moves away from the standardised innovation-inventor narrative.
Picture credits
Cover Image of the Ferreum Magazine (2019/91). Fotograf: Max Graf. Konzernarchiv der Georg Fischer AG.