Timetable of the Lectures 2013

• Friday 14 (4 PM...) Questions and Answers (62)
• Wednesday 12 (4 PM - 6 PM) General survey for the History of Technology (60)
• Friday, June 7 (4 PM - 7 PM) Technology and Literature. Blog survey (58)
• Wednesday, June 5 (4 PM - 7 PM) The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century (55)
• Friday, May 31 (4 PM - 7 PM) The Olivetti adventure - Some technology advs (52)
• Wednesday, May 29 (4 PM - 7 PM) The Alchemy Origins and the Chemical Industry (49)
• Friday, May 24 (4 PM - 7 PM) An Historical Overview: facts and institutions (46)
• Wednesday, May 22 (4 PM - 7 PM)  The Polytechnic Culture. Literature and Technology (43)
• Friday, May 17 (4 PM - 7 PM) Italy between post-war reconstruction and economic miracle (40)
• Wednesday, May 15  (5.30 PM - 7 PM) Italy between WWI and WWII (37)
• Wednesday, May 15 (4 PM- 5.30 PM) "Terramatta; il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito analfabeta siciliano", a movie directed by Costanza Quatriglio, written and produced by Chiara Ottaviano. (35.5)
• Friday, May 10 (4 PM - 7 PM) Fahrenheit 451 - The importance of books (34)
• Wednesday, May 8  (5.30 PM - 7 PM) The industrial revolution: the steam power (31)
• Wednesday, May 8 (4 PM- 5.30 PM) The industrial revolution: the textile industry (29.5)
• Friday, May 3 (5.30 PM - 7 PM) The Enlightenment and the encyclopedic adventures (28)
• Friday, May 3 (4 PM- 5.30 PM) The silk before and after the industrial revolution (26.5)
• Friday, April 26 (4.00 PM - 7.00 PM) Innovation and patents (25)
• Wednesday, April 24 (no lecture)
• Friday, April 19 (5.30 PM - 7 PM): The gothic cathedrals (22)
• Wednesday, April 17 (5.30 PM - 7 PM) The "new science", from Galilei to Newton. (20.5)
• Wednesday, April 17 (4 PM- 5.30 PM) Mining and metallurgy in 16th century. (19)
• Friday, April 12 (5.30 PM - 7 PM) From Jacques Besson to Andreas Boeckler (17.5)
• Friday, April 12 (4 PM - 5.30 PM). The Teatri di macchine: a new technological literature. (16)
• Wednesday, April 10 (5.30 PM- 7 PM): Leonardo da Vinci. (14.5)
• Wednesday, April 10 (4 PM- 5.30 PM): Technology between Middle Age and Renaissance. The machine treatises. (13)
• Friday, April 5 (5 PM - 7.30 PM) Presentation of the book Domenico Borini. Un'impresa internazionale. Castello del Valentino. With the presence of professors Vittorio Nascé and Giuseppe Mancini. (11.5)
• Wednesday, March 27 (5.30 PM- 7 PM): The Machines in the Ancient World. (9)
• Wednesday, March 27 (4 PM-5.30 PM): Literature and Technology. Historiography of Technology (7.5)
• Friday, March 22 (5.30 PM - 8 PM): A General Chronology. Sources for the History of Technology. How to proceed in the homework The Books & the Blog. (6)
• Wednesday, March 20 (5.30 PM- 7.30 PM): The Blog, A general survey of the History of Technology (3.5)
• Wednesday, March 20 (4 PM-5.30 PM): Introduction, Some suggestions, The historian's metodology (1.5)