Slawomir Lotysz
Slawomir Lotysz is a historian of technology based at the University of Zielona Gora, Poland. His research interests include the history of inventiveness, and the development of technology and industrial cooperation in Eastern Europe before the fall of Berlin Wall. He is a member of International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) and one of its officers. He is a past fellow of Chemical Heritage Foundation and Kosciuszko Foundation. Slawomir received his PhD from the Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences in 2005, where he is currently finishing his habilitation thesis.
Tours by this Curator
Sewing for
a Living
With sewing machines, European learned to buy, dress, and copy and steal in new ways.
Mass
Tourism
New technologies and new mobility meant new possibilities - and problems - for going on holiday.
The 'Brotherhood
Pipeline'
Read how Europe's East-West gas network took shape in the middle of the Cold War
Making Rules
for Penicillin
Developed during the Second World War, penicillin has long been caught up in processes beyond medicine.
The Railway
Gauge
Russian tracks are 89mm wider than their neighbours. When borders move, what do the tracks do?
Fair
Enough?
World Exhibitions displayed Europe for the world's eyes - and not everyone like what they saw
