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STATE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY OF INDUSTRY IN POLAND

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Pilatowicz J.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

2008

vol. 53

issue 2

31-81

Polish research interests in the history of industry first appeared on the turn of the 19th century. In the interwar period the searches were taken up in the field of economic history that became then a distinct historical sub-branch mainly by dint of such eminent historians as: Franciszek Bujak, Jan Rutkowski and Roman Grodecki. The greatest achievements in the range were observed in academic centres in Cracow, Poznan, Warsaw and Lvov. A significant development of searches on the history of industry in Poland was noticed in the period of Polish People's Republic. To a high degree it resulted from the priority of research works over the working class, and resulted in the necessity for taking up the searches on manufacturing establishments. However, in course of time the institutions became autonomous. In those days even appeared the centres that used to take up searches on particular branches of industry that were predominant in a given region. The searches were taken up in many centres: in Katowice – on coal-mining industry (Jerzy Jaros), in Lódz – on textile industry (Natalia Gasiorowska-Grabowska, Gryzelda Missalowa, Wieslaw Pus), in Poznan – on rural and food industry (Czeslaw Luczak, Marian Eckert). The centres in Cracow (Helena Madurowicz-Urbanska) and in Warsaw (Ireneusz Ihnatowicz, Juliusz Lukaszewicz, Irena Pietrzak-Pawlowska) had more universal nature. In Warsaw I. Pietrzak-Pawlowska made an attempt at integrating all Polish searches' findings that resulted in publishing gathered materials in three volumes. Other centres published single descriptions. A special attention should be paid to works that were initiated by scientific and technological associations. The most significant triumphs in this field were achieved by: Association of the Polish Electricians, Association of Engineers and Technicians of the Chemical Industry and Polish Society of the History of Technology. Moreover, there also appeared a great number of occasional publications of differentiated value that were a kind of bulletins, and promoted particular industrial establishments. In the 1980s things were trending away from the research works over the history of industry. Historians took up searches on the social and political issues. The author thinks that a successful development of the searches could be possible by dint of their concentration in one centre as, for instance, National Museum of Technology and Industry, which would be both exhibition and scientific institution.

The history of technology in 'Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki' (1956-2005)

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Pilatowicz J.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

2006

vol. 51

issue 1

165-193

A major influence on the shape of articles devoted to the history of technology published in 'Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki', since its establishment in 1956 until the end of 1980s, was exerted by Professors Eugeniusz Olszewski and Tadeusz M. Nowak. The former paid attention to the information value of the journal and the latter was responsible for introducing the section 'The state of research on the history of technology in Poland', as well as for the greater coverage of military history of technology in the Quarterly. The main themes of the articles on the history of technology published in the Quarterly included the following areas: the subject-matter and the research methods of the history of technology, the relation of history of technology to other scientific disciplines, the characteristic features of the history of technology, biographies of eminent inventors, the contribution of Poles to the development of world technology, the state of research on the history of technology and the propects for its development. The articles presented in the Quarterly were meant to lead to a synthesis of the history of technology in Poland, but this aim has never been fulfilled.The author of the current paper believes that in the coming years problems are likely to appear as far the search for materials on the history of technology is concerned, due to the fact that many research institutions dealing with the field have been closed or reduced; there are also fewer young researchers interested in the history of technology. It is therefore necessary to introduce radical changes, such as have been made in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where national museums of technology have been formed, in which activities concerned with exposition are combined with research.

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