Guillaume De Syon
Biographic Data
| ID | 765909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guillaume De Syon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guillaume |
| FAMILY NAME | De Syon |
| SIGNATURE | DE SYON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Albright College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1200-1882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Technology in Modern German History
Une fusée en plastique
Cet article propose de discuter d’une représentation spécifique de l’aventure spatiale sous la forme de modèles réduits devenus populaires dans les années 1950 et qui a continué d’attirer un certain public jusqu’à nos jours, comme en témoigne la vente de répliques en ligne dans divers matériaux, et la collection enthousiaste d’itérations antérieures de tels modèles. Ce faisant, il cherche à montrer comment le public a favorablement accueilli une …
Jet Age Aesthetic
Alan Dobson, A History of International Civil Aviation
Willy Ley
Reviewed by: Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age by Jared S. Buss Guillaume De Syon (bio) Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age. By Jared S. Buss. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Pp. 336. Hardcover $34.95. For decades, space age aficionados combing through used bookstore shelves were likely to encounter various copies of Willy Ley's books on space travel. Ley, however, was a deeper and far more complex science popularizer than his sp…
S asha D isko . The Devil’s Wheels
A fine study of the gendering of motorcycles in the interwar years, Sasha Disko’s The Devil’s Wheels offers an important interpretation of a mass-produced technology, the motorcycle, and how it came to embody masculinity as well as new forms of consumerism. Divided into nine chapters, Disko’s thorough study argues that mobility in Germany evolved specifically thanks to the motorcycle, as this machine offered a way of working through frustrations …
Rockets and Revolution
Reviewed by: Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight by Michael G. Smith Guillaume de Syon (bio) Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight. By Michael G. Smith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. 448. $34.95. In his intriguing prehistory of the space age, Michael Smith invites us to view rocket science as an infusion of cultural influences. In so doing, he suggests that rocketry can serv…
The Einsatzgruppen and the Issue of “Ordinary Men”
Tesla
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, by W. Bernard Carlson. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013. xiii, 500 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). The inventor of the alternative current (AC) motor that forms the basis of electrical power supply ended up relatively unknown. Popular culture, however, would eventually recast him in mythical proportions, thereby skewing the historical record. Carlson's fascinating biography of Nikola Tesla thus sheds new l…
Airborne Dreams
"Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways, by Christine R. Yano.." Canadian Journal of History, 47(2), pp. 456–457
Crafting the Quantum
A Nuclear Winter’s Tale
Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt
Reviewed by: Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt: Eine wirtschaftshistorische Analyse Guillaume de Syon (bio) Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt: Eine wirtschaftshistorische Analyse. By Helmut Braun. Weiden, Germany: Eurotrans-Verlag, 2007. Pp. xvi+789. €49.90. In his lightly revised dissertation, Helmut Braun sets out to apply economic theory to explain the rise and demise of the rigid airship. In so doing, he argues that most p…
Sky as Frontier
Reviewed by Guillaume de Syon Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire. By David T. Courtwright. Centennial of Flight Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. 284. $24.95. Seeking to apply the frontier metaphor to the history of American aviation, David Courtwright offers an interesting, insightful, funny, and yet flawed take on this canvas of flight. Over the course of twelve chapters forming three distinct parts, h…
The Spectacle of Flight
"The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination 1920-1950, by Robert Wohl." Canadian Journal of History, 41(3), pp. 638–639
Poems in Steel
What the Wrights Wrought
On 17 December 2003, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, resonated with a celebration of the centennial of the first controlled human flight, the culmination of months filled with news of activities designed to commemorate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Museum curators vied with marketeers—and with writers and publishers, several dozen volumes about the Wright brothers and aviation history appearing in 2003 alone. Twelve books are noted h…
Don't Read Those 'Toons! French Comics, Government Censorship, and Perceptions of American Military Aviation
Airport
Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
Finding a Use for the Airship 3 Zeppelin Reality and Myth in the Great War Zeppelinitis Technology and War Planning Demonizing the Dirigible Fantasy and Fact of Zeppelin Operations 4 The Airship as a Business Tool in Weimar Culture Rescuing the Airship from Oblivion Nostalgia and Fund-raising Symbol in the Best and Worst of Times 5 Ideologies of Science and Adventure: The Artic Airship Polar Dreams Conflicting Projects Selling Science as Entertai…
Marketing Michelin
How French was "Bibendum," that odd, portly stack of tires known in English as the Michelin Man? As Stephen Harp demonstrates in his fine study of Michelin marketing in France, this company mascot represented far more than quality rubber. The Michelin Company's involvement in numerous ventures, from tire sales to tourism guides, rendered the firm part of twentieth-century French culture. Michelin's shaping of French identity, primarily during the…
Consuming Concorde
When the Concorde touches down in London this October to complete its last scheduled transatlantic flight, it will mark the end of an era. To its crews, to the happy few who could afford a ticket (a round trip averaged ten thousand dollars), and to sympathetic observers, the end of scheduled commercial supersonic flight will be a shameful step backward. This attitude reflects a determinist bent in the popular view of technology that remains at it…
Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
Des sciences et des techniques
Based on a seminar series held in Paris in 1996, this book offers a summary of issues surrounding current approaches to the study of science and technology, including some of the tensions afflicting the social sciences. There are twenty-six essays, all by noted specialists, grouped in seven sections. Though valuable as an introductory survey, this volume nonetheless frustrates the reader because of its superficial editing. In the absence of a ful…
Totalitarian Science and Technology
In Totalitarian Science and Technology Paul Josephson considers how physicists, biologists, and engineers have fared in totalitarian regimes. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin relied on scientists and engineers to build the infrastructure of their states. The military power of their regimes was largely based on the discovery of physicists and biologists. They sought to use biology to transform nature, including their citizens, with murderous effect…
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Totalitarian Science and Technology
In Totalitarian Science and Technology Paul Josephson considers how physicists, biologists, and engineers have fared in totalitarian regimes. Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin relied on scientists and engineers to build the infrastructure of their states. The military power of their regimes was largely based on the discovery of physicists and biologists. They sought to use biology to transform nature, including their citizens, with murderous effect…
The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen
From 1900 until World War II, the southern German town of Friedrichs hafen on Lake Constance was known as City. During that time, Friedrichshafen served as the manufacturing center for the giant airships bearing their inventor's name. Beginning in the 1970s, Friedrichshafen sought to shore up its identity as a source of civic pride and potential tourism. An obvious move in this direction was the establishment of a museum; a small facility was dul…
Des sciences et des techniques
Based on a seminar series held in Paris in 1996, this book offers a summary of issues surrounding current approaches to the study of science and technology, including some of the tensions afflicting the social sciences. There are twenty-six essays, all by noted specialists, grouped in seven sections. Though valuable as an introductory survey, this volume nonetheless frustrates the reader because of its superficial editing. In the absence of a ful…
Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
Airport
Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900-1939
Finding a Use for the Airship 3 Zeppelin Reality and Myth in the Great War Zeppelinitis Technology and War Planning Demonizing the Dirigible Fantasy and Fact of Zeppelin Operations 4 The Airship as a Business Tool in Weimar Culture Rescuing the Airship from Oblivion Nostalgia and Fund-raising Symbol in the Best and Worst of Times 5 Ideologies of Science and Adventure: The Artic Airship Polar Dreams Conflicting Projects Selling Science as Entertai…
Marketing Michelin
How French was "Bibendum," that odd, portly stack of tires known in English as the Michelin Man? As Stephen Harp demonstrates in his fine study of Michelin marketing in France, this company mascot represented far more than quality rubber. The Michelin Company's involvement in numerous ventures, from tire sales to tourism guides, rendered the firm part of twentieth-century French culture. Michelin's shaping of French identity, primarily during the…
Consuming Concorde
When the Concorde touches down in London this October to complete its last scheduled transatlantic flight, it will mark the end of an era. To its crews, to the happy few who could afford a ticket (a round trip averaged ten thousand dollars), and to sympathetic observers, the end of scheduled commercial supersonic flight will be a shameful step backward. This attitude reflects a determinist bent in the popular view of technology that remains at it…
What the Wrights Wrought
On 17 December 2003, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, resonated with a celebration of the centennial of the first controlled human flight, the culmination of months filled with news of activities designed to commemorate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Museum curators vied with marketeers—and with writers and publishers, several dozen volumes about the Wright brothers and aviation history appearing in 2003 alone. Twelve books are noted h…
Don't Read Those 'Toons! French Comics, Government Censorship, and Perceptions of American Military Aviation
Poems in Steel
Sky as Frontier
Reviewed by Guillaume de Syon Sky as Frontier: Adventure, Aviation, and Empire. By David T. Courtwright. Centennial of Flight Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. 284. $24.95. Seeking to apply the frontier metaphor to the history of American aviation, David Courtwright offers an interesting, insightful, funny, and yet flawed take on this canvas of flight. Over the course of twelve chapters forming three distinct parts, h…
The Spectacle of Flight
"The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination 1920-1950, by Robert Wohl." Canadian Journal of History, 41(3), pp. 638–639
Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt
Reviewed by: Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt: Eine wirtschaftshistorische Analyse Guillaume de Syon (bio) Aufstieg und Niedergang der Luftschifffahrt: Eine wirtschaftshistorische Analyse. By Helmut Braun. Weiden, Germany: Eurotrans-Verlag, 2007. Pp. xvi+789. €49.90. In his lightly revised dissertation, Helmut Braun sets out to apply economic theory to explain the rise and demise of the rigid airship. In so doing, he argues that most p…
A Nuclear Winter’s Tale
Airborne Dreams
"Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways, by Christine R. Yano.." Canadian Journal of History, 47(2), pp. 456–457
Crafting the Quantum
Tesla
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, by W. Bernard Carlson. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2013. xiii, 500 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). The inventor of the alternative current (AC) motor that forms the basis of electrical power supply ended up relatively unknown. Popular culture, however, would eventually recast him in mythical proportions, thereby skewing the historical record. Carlson's fascinating biography of Nikola Tesla thus sheds new l…
The Einsatzgruppen and the Issue of “Ordinary Men”
Rockets and Revolution
Reviewed by: Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight by Michael G. Smith Guillaume de Syon (bio) Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight. By Michael G. Smith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Pp. 448. $34.95. In his intriguing prehistory of the space age, Michael Smith invites us to view rocket science as an infusion of cultural influences. In so doing, he suggests that rocketry can serv…
S asha D isko . The Devil’s Wheels
A fine study of the gendering of motorcycles in the interwar years, Sasha Disko’s The Devil’s Wheels offers an important interpretation of a mass-produced technology, the motorcycle, and how it came to embody masculinity as well as new forms of consumerism. Divided into nine chapters, Disko’s thorough study argues that mobility in Germany evolved specifically thanks to the motorcycle, as this machine offered a way of working through frustrations …
Alan Dobson, A History of International Civil Aviation
Willy Ley
Reviewed by: Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age by Jared S. Buss Guillaume De Syon (bio) Willy Ley: Prophet of the Space Age. By Jared S. Buss. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2017. Pp. 336. Hardcover $34.95. For decades, space age aficionados combing through used bookstore shelves were likely to encounter various copies of Willy Ley's books on space travel. Ley, however, was a deeper and far more complex science popularizer than his sp…
Jet Age Aesthetic
Une fusée en plastique
Cet article propose de discuter d’une représentation spécifique de l’aventure spatiale sous la forme de modèles réduits devenus populaires dans les années 1950 et qui a continué d’attirer un certain public jusqu’à nos jours, comme en témoigne la vente de répliques en ligne dans divers matériaux, et la collection enthousiaste d’itérations antérieures de tels modèles. Ce faisant, il cherche à montrer comment le public a favorablement accueilli une …
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