Johnson Controls will soon be celebrating the 125th anniversary of its founding. We are reflecting on the first invention that started the company and spawned an industry. Warren Johnson, the founder of Johnson Controls, was granted the first patent for a room thermostat in 1883, and organized the Johnson Electric Service Co. two years later, in 1885. He went on to develop automatic systems of temperature regulation, the most important of which were wholly pneumatic.

In attempting to ascertain the importance of his invention to the building industry, energy conservation, and other related fields as they developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the company would like to hear from SHOT members who have studied the early importance of automatic temperature regulation in buildings.

Please address all replies to kenneth.wirth@jci.com.
Kenneth J. Wirth, Jr.
Records and Archives Project Manager
Johnson Controls, Inc.
5757 N. Green Bay Ave.
Glendale, WI  53209
Tel.: 414-524-2287

Journal Of Geology And Mining Research (JGMR) is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. JGMR publishes rigorous theoretical reasoning and advanced empirical research in all areas of the subjects. JGMR covers all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish:

• Original articles in basic and applied research
• Case studies
• Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays

We welcome articles or proposals from all perspectives and on all subjects pertaining to Geography, Geology, Mining, Oceanography, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Petrology, Geomorphology, Ecology, Environmentalism, Volcanology, Sedimentology, Seismology, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Hydrogeology, Economic Geology, Plate tectonics, Metallurgy, Radiogeology, Paleontology, Geodesy. The journal will also address developments within the discipline. Each issue will normally contain a mixture of peer-reviewed research articles, reviews or essays using a variety of methodologies and approaches.

 Manuscripts must be sent as e-mail attachment to jgmr.academicjournals@gmail.com. JGMR editorial board makes an objective and quick decision on each manuscript and informs the corresponding author within four weeks of submission. If accepted, the article is published online in the next issue.

JGMR is an Open Access Journal: One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience larger than that of any subscription-based journal and thus increases the visibility and impact of published works. It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to reproduce and distribute content. JGMR is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon as they are published.

JGMR is an open access journal and all articles published are available online without restriction to scientific researchers in the public and private sectors, government agencies, educators and the general public. The journal also provides a medium for documentation and archiving of research articles. JGMR papers are exposed to the widest possible readership.

Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next available issue.

Please visit http://www.academicjournals.org/JGMR to view our current issue.

The Journal of Cell Biology and Genetics (JCBG) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published monthly by Academic Journals (www.academicjournals.org/JCBG). JCBG is dedicated to increasing the depth of research across all areas of this subject.

Editors and reviewers: JCBG is seeking qualified researchers to join its editorial team as editors, subeditors or reviewers. Kindly send your resume to jcbg.submit@gmail.com, jcbg.journal@gmail.com.

Call for Papers: JCBG welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence in this subject area, and will publish: original articles in basic and applied research, case studies, critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays. We invite you to submit your manuscript(s) to jcbg.submit@gmail.com for publication in the Maiden Issue (October 2009). Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website; http://www.academicjournals.org/JCBG/Instruction.htm.

JCBG   is an Open Access Journal: one key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience larger than that of any subscription-based journal ad thus increases the visibility and impact of published work. It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to reproduce and distribute content. JCBG is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon as they are published.

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing invites article manuscript submissions for a thematic/special issue on the history of labor and computing. Manuscripts that connect to the broader literature on labor history are particularly encouraged. Submissions can address labor issues, practices, or structures within a wide range of settings including computer, software, networking, or semiconductor/components companies throughout the world; user organizations (corporations, government, universities, hospitals, etc.); peer production projects (open source); trade organizations; professional associations; etc. Possible themes and approaches include, but are not limited to, the history of work practices, work culture, shop floor dynamics, labor organization, legislation/lobbying, professionalization, automation and labor displacement, offshoring, gender/race/ethnicity and IT work, safety and risk in the workplace, etc.

The deadline for submission to this thematic issue is January 15, 2010. Manuscripts will go through IEEE Annals of the History of Computing’s standard peer review process. If there are more accepted manuscripts than slots for the issue, editors will decide which articles to include based on quality, coverage, and synergies between manuscripts. If there are accepted manuscripts not included in the issue, they will be added to the general publication queue and published in a later issue of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.

All articles must be between 5,000 and 8,000 words, including citations/endnotes.  To submit your manuscript go to http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/annals/home; select the “Write for Us” tab at the top and follow instructions (including selecting the Labor History thematic/special issue). If you have any questions or would like feedback on ideas/manuscripts prior to submission, please contact IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Editor in Chief Jeffrey Yost (yostx003@umn.edu  or 612 624 5050)

Water History welcomes articles from such fields and perspectives as environmental history, urban history, the history of technology, archaeology, cultural studies, management studies, engineering, geography, agricultural history, and the sciences. Though we encourage submissions that are relevant to today’s concerns, the journal’s core mission is to study the past, not the present. Articles should primarily relate to the history of water and the way that it has affected both human history and other aspects of the natural world. Please visit: http://www.springer.com/environment/water/journal/12685 or go directly to online submission at http://www.editorialmanager.com/iwha/.

For further questions, please contact one of the editors.
Johann Tempelhoff
Niche Area for the Cultural Dynamics of Water
North-West University
Vaal Triangle Campus
PO Box 1174
Vanderbijlpark
1900 Gauteng
South Africa
Email: johann.tempelhoff@nwu.ac.za

Heather J. Hoag
History Department
College of Arts and Sciences
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
USA
Email: hjhoag@usfca.edu  (email contact preferred)

Maurits W. Ertsen
Water Resources Management
Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Delft University of Technology
PO Box 5041 2600 GA Delft
The Netherlands
Email: m.w.ertsen@tudelft.nl

The International Water History Association has a web page at www.iwha.ewu.edu

Vulcan: Journal of the Social History of Military Technology offers a new venue for historians and social scientists to publish their research on the history of military technologies in their social or cultural contexts. Academic and public interest in the history of military technology has always been substantial, but has usually been expressed in terms of weaponry, warships, fortifications, or other physical manifestations of warfare, with emphasis mainly on how they were made or how they worked, often in antiquarian detail. Writers in the field have also tended to assume a strictly utilitarian and rational basis for military technological invention and innovation. However indispensable such approaches may be, they largely ignore some very important questions. What are the contexts of social values, attitudes, and interests, nonmilitary as well as military, that shape and support (or oppose) these technologies? What are the consequences of gender, race, class, and other aspects of the social order for the nature and use of military technology? Or, more generally: How do social and cultural environments within the military itself or in the larger society affect military technological change? And the indispensable corollary: How does changing military technology affect other aspects of society and culture? In brief, we want to see articles that address military technology as both agent and object of social change. (more…)

The Editorial Board of Osiris, a research journal devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, solicits proposals for Volume 27, to appear in 2012.

Volumes 17 to 27 of Osiris  are designed to dissolve boundaries between history and history of science.  The international dimensions of each volume’s topic are especially considered.

Proposals that integrate issues in the history of science with those of “mainstream” history are especially encouraged, as are contributors from the historical discipline at large. The Board is also very interested in proposals which assess the “state of the field” in various areas of the history of science. The Board also welcomes proposals that deal with intersections between the history of science and the history of technology.

Recent volumes include: The Self as Project (2007) and Intellegentsia Science: The Russian Century, 1860-1960 (2008).  Forthcoming issues are: Science and National Identity (2009), Expertise and the Early Modern State (2010), and Climate Change (2011).

Prospective guest editors should submit the following materials for consideration:

1. a proposal of approximately 2000 words describing topic and its relationship to the literature to date including the relationship of the topic to broader issues and the literature in mainstream history
2. a list of 12-15 contributors with the theme, topic, or title of contribution
3. recent publication c.v. of guest editor(s)

Guest editors and their contributors should be prepared to meet to the Osiris publication schedule. Guest editors must therefore choose contributors who are able to submit their essays by November 1, 2010. Volume 27 (2012) goes to press–after refereeing, author’s revisions, and copy editing–in late fall 2011.

Proposals are reviewed by the Osiris Editorial Board at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society in November 2008. Announcement of the next volume of Osiris will be made by January 1, 2009.

Proposals and all supporting materials should be sent in hard or electronic copy by *October 1, 2008* to Kathryn M. Olesko, Osiris Editor, osiris@georgetown.edu.

M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, and East River Books, a reference book producer, are seeking contributing scholars for a four-volume illustrated reference work on the history of science and technology from prehistoric times through the present-day. The project is aimed at the academic high school and undergraduate student. The General Editor is Dr. James Ciment.

The encyclopedia will explore the origins, evolution, impact, and legacy of technological innovation and scientific discovery in a wide variety of fields, including agriculture, architecture, astronomy/space exploration, biology, chemistry, climate, communications, electronics, energy, food/nutrition, geology, manufacturing, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, physics, transportation, weaponry, as well as other areas. Articles will vary in length from 1,000-4,000 (depending on significance of topic) and many will be accompanied by ancillary materials, including charts, sidebars, tables, and primary documents. (more…)

A book author is looking for someone to write a brief chapter (3-5 pages)  on the rise and fall of the inventor in America, esp in relation to business  (and perhaps academia), for a book he’s creating for philanthropists, venture  capitalists, government, and the public called: The New Pioneer: A Vision for  America’s Place in the Emerging World.  The book’s aim is to use the information provided by historians, venture capitalists, inventors, student inventors, and academics involved in resuscitating the   innovative spirit of American engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs for the   challenge of rebalancing the ecology, technology and resource use in our present world crisis.  This book should become an invitational handbook (very  short, easy to read) for those in industry, academia and government who care  about  the world’s future and America’s place in it, with special emphasis on  novel  educational structures for those driven to invent and explore the  frontiers  of science and technology.

If interested, please contact Norman Brown by e-mail at NPHbrown@aol.com or by cell phone at  386-316-5259.

Norman Brown, Ph.D., Ph.D., LMFT
Associate Professor, Psychology & Humanities
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

M.E. Sharpe, a New York-based academic and reference publisher, and East River Books, a reference book producer, are seeking contributing scholars for a four-volume illustrated reference work on the history of science and technology from prehistoric times through the present-day.  The project is aimed at the academic high school and undergraduate student.  The General Editor is Dr. James Ciment.

The encyclopedia will explore the origins, evolution, impact, and legacy of technological innovation and scientific discovery in a wide variety of fields, including agriculture, architecture, astronomy/space exploration, biology, chemistry, climate, communications, electronics,  energy, food/nutrition, geology, manufacturing, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, physics, transportation, weaponry, as well as other areas.

Articles will vary in length from 1,000-4,000 (depending on significance of topic) and many will be accompanied by ancillary materials, including charts, sidebars, tables, and primary documents. Contributors will receive authorial credit, a modest cash honorarium and/or copy of the full encyclopedia set (depending on contribution length and contributor preference).

If you are interested in contributing to this exciting and important reference project–one we hope will be the definitive reference work on the global history of technology and science–please visit our website for further information: www.encyclopediawebsite.com and click on “discovery and invention.”