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Aristotle Tympas holds a tenure-track positionas Lecturer on the History of Technology in Modernity at the History andPhilosophy of Science Department, National and Kapodistrian University ofAthens, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in History,Technology, and Society and in Science, Technology, and Society (Diploma inChemical Engineering, Aristotelian University, Greece, 1989; M.Sc. inTechnology and Science Policy, Georgia Tech, 1995; Ph.D. in History,Technology, and Society, 2001, Georgia Tech).

His experience with critical elements oftechnical infrastructures goes back to his dissertation research (advisor:Steve Usselman), which was on the history of the interaction between themultitude of technologies developed in order to compute and control stabilityduring the lengthening and interconnection of the US electric power networks, betweenthe 1880s and the 1960s.

His past research has been supported byvarious fellowships, including ones from NSF, the IEEE History Center, theHagley Museum and Library, the Smithsonian, the Dibner Library, and theUniversity of Athens.

Aristotle Tympas
Lecturer on the History of Technology in Modernity
History of Science and Technology Division
Philosophy and History of Science Department
National and KapodistrianUniversity of Athens
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Recent publications

• ‘From Mechanical-Electrical to Electrical-Electronic Computational Metaphors: From the Historical Continuity of the Engineering Imaginary to An Anti-Essentialist Conception of the Mechanical-Electrical-Electronic Relationship’, in Technical and Aesthetic Transformation of Society, Reinhard Heil et al. (editors), Verlag, Germany (2007, forthcoming).

• ‘The Modern Greek Pursuit of an Iron Egnatia’, in Networking Europe: Infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser (editors), Canton, Massachusetts, Science History Publications, 2006, 25-49 (with Irene Anastasiadou).

• ‘Between Telecommunication Efficiency and Stability: Towards an Historical Approach’, in In-Use Knowledge, Gerasimos Kouzelis et al. (editors), Peter Lang, Bern, Switzerland, 2005, 197-212.

• ‘Technology’, in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, Volume VI, Maryanne Cline Horowitz (editor), Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, 2004, 2295-2297.

• ‘Perpetually Laborious: Computing Electric Power Transmission before the Electronic Computer’, International Review of Social History, Volume 11, Supplement, 2003, 73-95.