Almost Untold
 
history of technology from a side

Hello, and welcome to me website. I've developed it to support my research in the emerging field of history of technology, to facilitate contact with my students and those, who share my interests.
Dr. Slawomir Lotysz, University of Zielona Gora

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some of failed innovations were so promising, that they are back in inventor's minds again most significant Polish scientists, engineers and inventors were doing their job abroad. meet some of them world's fairs were usually planned as one-time events but still they live their own lives. enter the world of world's fairs bridges to span the seas, tunnels and dams to cross the oceans, canals to link them, and... more for post industrial cities the re-use post industrial areas is a question of today. looking for the answer?
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KER and War: Polish synthetic rubber in American war efforts, 1941-45
(2nd ESHS, Krakow)
When Japan captured 90 percent of world production of natural caoutchouc in 1941, the United States, faced a rubber shortage on enormous scale.
Two formulas were discussed at that time: based on oil as a raw material, and the other, in which alcohol was employed. This was invented and developed by Polish engineer Waclaw Szukiewicz, who smuggled it to the United States...more

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Swift as Aeolus: American contribution in developing pneumatic railways as compared to European achievements.
(46th SHOT, Atlanta)
The paper (richly illustrated with animations) describes the American venture to the technology, which after years of being considered as promising; eventually turn out to be a failure...more
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