TG Technikgeschichte

This paper addresses the research projects Hecht and Feuerlilie which have been developed by Hemann Blenk’s Institut für Aerodynamik at the Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Hermann Göring between 1939 and 1944. Both the gliding bomb Hecht and the air...

In the days of the economic miracle in Germany, plastics were seen as the materials of the future. The promise inscribed in them of advancing through scientific and technical progress into consumer worlds previously inaccessible to large sections of...

The article discusses the question in how far technical progress in the early 20th century affected animals, and how the animal protection movement regarded this impact. The focus is on the motorization of society and economy, especially on the...