Taking Roger Caillois’ concept of “ilinx” as a starting point, the article deals with play theory in the 20th century. It reconstructs Caillois’ main work Man, Play and Games (1958), including his famous categorization of ...

In 1937, the meteorologist Joachim Kuettner used several gliders to study and map a large-scale, yet hitherto unknown, atmospheric phenomenon called mountain waves. He also examined an accompanying occurence that stood in ...

The article examines early techniques of crowd control in German unemployment agencies between 1927 and 1930, taking the establishment of the Reichsanstalt für Arbeitslosenvermittlung und Arbeitslosenversicherung (Ministerial ...

The article deals with the historical relationship between physics and economy. My investigation focuses primarily on the use of meteorological metaphors in reporting financial market transactions. This paper charts recent ...

Étienne-Jules Marey’s experiments in rendering invisible air movements and turbulences visible are of crucial importance to aviation research around 1900. The article takes these experiments as a point of departure to show ...