Edmund Todd

Education

M.A. 1981, Ph.D. 1984, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1976-1984
History of Technology, Ruhr Universität Bochum, 1979-1981
M.A., Modern European History, University of Florida, 1974
History and Political Science, Tübingen Universität, 1974-1975
B.A. 1970, History, University of Florida, 1962-1964, 1966-1970

Publications

“Landscaping the Ruhr as a Vacation Wonderland: Building the Twentieth Century out of the Seventeenth.” ICON 10 2004), 123-138.

"Engineering Politics, Technological Fundamentalism, and German Power Technology, 1900-1936."  In Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes. Pp. 145-174.  Edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

“Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935." History of Technology 22 (2000), 25-42.

"Von Essen zur regionalen Stromversorgung, 1890-1920.  Das Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk."  In Elektrizitätswirtschaft zwischen Umwelt, Technik und Politik: Aspekte aus 100 Jahren RWE-Geschichte, 1898-1998.  Pp. 17-49.  Edited by Helmut Maier.  Freiberg: TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 1999.

"Prussian Landräte and Modern Technology: Electricity as a Source of Power in the Ruhr, 1900-1915."  ICON 2 (1996), 83-107.

"Building a Pumped Storage Station on the Ruhr, 1920-1930."  IEEE Power Engineering Review 16 (April 1996), 39-41.

"Electric Ploughs in Wilhelmine Germany: Failure of an Agricultural System."  Social Studies of Science 22 (1992), 263-281.

"Industry, State, and Electrical Technology in the Ruhr circa 1900."  Osiris 5 (1989): 243-259.

"Industrial Structure, Progressives, and the Development of Chemical Engineering at Columbia, 1900-1915."  In Technology and Technological Sciences in History: Proceedings of the ICOHTEC-Symposium Dresden, 25.-29. August 1986.  Pp. 267-270.  Edited by Rolf Sonnemann and Klaus Krug.  Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1987.

"A Tale of Three Cities: Electrification and the Structure of Choice in the Ruhr, 1886-1900."  Social Studies of Science 17 (1987), 387-412.

Reviews in Alemannia Studens, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Business History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, Environmental History, German Politics and Society, ISIS, The Journal of Economic History, Nature, Science, and Technology and Culture.

Courses Taught

HS 101 Western Civilization to 1700

HS 102 Western Civilization since 1700

HS 108 History of Science

HU 300 Nature of Science

HS 306 Modern Technology and Western Culture

HS 351 Russia and the Soviet Union

Nazi Germany

HS 355 Modern Germany

The Environment since 1939

HS 446 Europe in the Twentieth Century

Other

Edmund Todd's honors and awards include: 
    
Wye Faculty Seminar, Summer 2004

Advisory Editor, Technology and Culture, 1996-2006

Advisory Council, SHOT, 1993-1996

DAAD Summer Seminar, "The Kaiserreich Recast: Culture, Politics, Modernity,"University of Pennsylvania, 1990

ACLS Grants-in-Aid, Summer 1986
    
Fulbright Scholar, Germany, 1979-1981