| Friedrich Kittler talking about vectors in media technology, historical roots in the physical sciences and geography through ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the 18th and 19th Century, World War I, World War II and Post War Western engineering sciences. Kittler traces technology's accelerated march forward, sign-posting the work of Leyden, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, Alessandro Volta, Luigi Galvani, Hans Christian Ørsted Oersted, Faraday, Watt, Carnot, Boltzman, Gauss, Helmholtz, Siemens, Braun, Edison, Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi, Deforrest, Bessel, Chebychev, Butterworth, Vannevar Bush, Claude Shannon and Alan Turing. European Graduate School EGS |
