David Thompson

Name:	David Thompson
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	17 Mar 2026, 11:36 a.m.

Public lists managed by David Thompson

• British Society for the History of Science
• Cabinet of Natural History
• CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
• Coffee with Scientists
• Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
• Department of History and Philosophy of Science
• Early Science and Medicine
• Generation to Reproduction Seminars
• History and Philosophy of Science long list
• History of Medicine Seminars
• History of Modern Medicine and Biology
• HPS History Workshop
• HPS Philosophy Workshop
• Mary Hesse Lecture
• Rausing Lecture
• Twentieth Century Think Tank
• Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
• Whipple Museum of the History of Science

Talks given by David Thompson

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Talks organised by David Thompson

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• But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure
• In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming
• Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence
• Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa
• The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?
• Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age
• Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview
• Nature, culture and philosophy
• Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa
• Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?
• The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control
• Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment
• From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren
• Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world
• Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power
• Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com
• Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation