Otto Mayr

Biographic Data

ID1027463
NAMEOtto Mayr
GIVEN NAMESOtto
FAMILY NAMEMayr
SIGNATUREMAYR O
AFFILIATIONSCurator of Mechanical Engineering, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT47
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Wissenskultur Tanz: Historische und zeitgenössische Vermittlungsakte zwischen Praktiken und Diskursen

    Open AccessHeeg Gnther, Tanz Durch et al.BOOKWissenskultur Tanz2009

    Tanz als eigene Wissenskultur zu begreifen, ist nicht selbstverständlich. Doch steht außer Frage, dass dem Tanzen Wissensformen zukommen, die aus Praxeologien und Theoriebildungen hervorgehen. Aber bildet die Tanzkunst auch eine Wissenskultur? Worin bestünde sie und welche Erkenntnisziele und Erfahrungswerte sind am Werk? Vor diesem Fragehorizont greift der Sammelband in bestehende Diskussionen ein, um aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive das inter…

  • Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine (review)

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Reviewed by: Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine Otto Mayr (bio) Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine. By Jonathan Sawday. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxii+402. $33.95. The intellectual history of technology is a neglected field, and any contribution to it deserves to be greeted with enthusiasm. But it is easy to expect too much. Concerning the book under…

  • The "Enola Gay" Fiasco: History, Politics, and the Museum

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

  • The Enola Gay Fiasco: History, Politics, and the Museum

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1998

    The Enola Gay Fiasco: History, Politics, and the Museum Otto Mayr (bio) To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) had planned to open an exhibition centering on the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. During its many years of preparation, the exhibit project became so controversial that the Smithsonian canceled it on 30 Januar…

  • The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from 1700 to the Present Day by R. A. Buchanan

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    190 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE of important national sites. While these essays recapitulate much of the content of the first part of the book, their intrinsic value lies in their consideration of technological history in terms of built environ­ ments and the rise of the new specialty of industrial preservation. Marie Nisser, in her general introduction to this section and in her description of the industrial heritage of Sweden, traces th…

  • The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from 1700 to the Present Day

    Otto Mayr, R A BuchananARTICLETechnology and Culture1994

    Explores the nature and consequences of technological transformation, seeking to understand its causes and its implications for individuals and societies in the modern world. The emphasis is inevitably Western, where the changes have been most effective and have made available vast increases in productive capacity, rapid transport facilities and instantaneous communication. But the book also attempts to range widely over different societies, some…

  • The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life

    Otto Mayr, David F ChannellARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

    The mechanical and the organic The mechanical world view: The clockwork universe Mechanical organisms: From automata to clockwork humans The organic world view: from magic to vitalism Organic machines: technology as plant The emergence of the bionic world view The vital machine Ethics in the age of the vital machine

  • The Vital Machine: A Study of Technology and Organic Life by David F. Channell

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

    800 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE tory, and skyscraper, urging “modern” people to leave behind the soft, the natural, the communal, and the romantic? Or does he probe the terrible cost of the machine age by setting his portrayals slightly askew with understated, almost violent, interventions? “In his beautifully crafted and masterfully composed images of a machine-dominated world ... he seems to mourn the death of the creative self’s autono…

  • The Deutsches Museum, Munich

    R G W Anderson, Robert Anderson et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1992

  • Technikgeschichte . K. Mauel , R. Reith

    Otto MayrARTICLEIsis1991

  • The Evolution of Technology by George Basalla

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

    130 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE new opportunities and dangers technology had put before us. That this has not happened does not mean that he was wrong. When the interest, as in this book, is to expand the content of a held and to seek novel connections among dissimilar information and energies, the opportunity for difference of opinion increases. What is inevitable new insight and what is too farfetched? What are the major points and what…

  • The Evolution of Technology

    Otto Mayr, George BasallaARTICLETechnology and Culture1991

  • Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

    Charles Coulston Gillispie, Otto MayrARTICLEThe American Historical Review1988

    List of Illustrations Ackowledgments Introduction Part I. Authoritarian Systems 1. The Mechanical Clock, Its Makers and Users 2. The Rise of the Clock Metaphor 3. The Clockwork Universe 4. The Clockwork State 5. The Authoritarian Conception of Order 6. Rejection of the Clock Metaphor in the Name of Liberty Part II. Liberal Systems 7. Imagery of Balance and Equilibrium 8. Attraction and Repulsion 9. Self-balancing Political Systems 10. Self-regula…

  • Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe

    Thomas L Hankins, Thomas Hankins et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1987

  • Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World

    Otto Mayr, David S LandesARTICLETechnology and Culture1985

  • Friedrich Klemm (1904-1983)

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1984

    Memorial FRIEDRICH KLEMM (1904-1983) OTTO MAYR Friedrich Klemm died in Munich on March 16, 1983, after a brief heart illness. He had been one of the architects who, chiefly in the 1950s, had helped to establish our discipline, the history oftechnology, in the form in which we know it today. Appropriately, our society in 1975 awarded him its highest honor, the Leonardo da Vinci Medal. Since at that occasion Technology and Culture published an exte…

  • Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1984

  • Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures

    Thomas C Cochran, Otto Mayr et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1983Cited by: 2

  • The Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata 1550-1650

    William Andrewes, William J H Andrewes et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1982

  • Die deutsche Räderuhr: Zur Kunst und Technik des mechanischen Zeitmessers im deutschen Sprachraum. Volume I . Klaus Maurice

    Otto MayrARTICLEIsis1979

  • Kultur und Technik: Zeitschrift des Deutschen Museums Munchen. Vol. 1

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1978

  • Philosophers and Machines

    Edwin T Layton, Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1977

  • Moderne Technikgeschichte

    Otto Mayr, Karin Hausen et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1977

  • The Science-Technology Relationship as a Historiographic Problem

    Otto MayrARTICLETechnology and Culture1976Cited by: 4

    In today's industrial civilization, words and refer to two complexes of activities, persons, institutions, and values, and they are heavily charged with sentiment. Since they often appear side by side, it is natural to ask about their relationship or, rather, about relationship of various phenomena that are labeled by them. This relationship has eluded all who have tried to grasp it, and we may simply speak of the problem of sciencetechnology rel…

  • Contributions to a Philosophy of Technology: Studies in the Structure of Thinking in the Technological Sciences. Friedrich Rapp

    Otto MayrARTICLEIsis1976