{"286341":{"#nid":"286341","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Technology and the American Civil War","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETechnology as it was applied to the Civil War \u2014 in weapons, equipment, medicine, military operations, communications, and transport \u2014 will be the focus of the symposium. New or newly improved weapons affected the conduct of war at all levels. But that was only part of the story. Technological changes remote from the battlefield also shaped the conduct of war. Agricultural mechanization permitted larger armies to be fed; growing industries provided them not only with arms but with other supplies as well; steam-powered transport helped deploy and sustain them. In addition, new techniques of food preservation and medical care conditioned the outcome of the war. Finally photography, telegraphy, new signal devices, and aerial observation from fixed balloons improved communications, both military and civilian.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENevertheless, this was a period of transition to the full-fledged industrialized warfare of World War I: horses still mattered more than steam engines in the nineteenth century and more soldiers still died from disease in the Civil War than from wounds sustained. This Symposium will take the measure of technological innovation\u0027s impact on warfare at a point when the Industrial Revolution had been underway for a century.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgenda (for full details, visit related link below):\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESession 1: Field Operations \u0026amp; Communications\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESession 2: Medical Technologies \u0026amp; Treatments\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPanel Discussion: Artifacts of the Industrial Revolution \u2014 Curating Civil War Technology\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u0026nbsp;","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis symposium on technology and the American Civil War comprises part of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s contribution to the war\u2019s sesquicentennial commemoration.\u0026nbsp;It will be jointly hosted by the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History, Technology, and Society\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.inta.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;Colonel Leslie Callahan Memorial Endowment,\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.georgiabattlefields.org\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Battlefields Association\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.atlantahistorycenter.com\/\u0022\u003EAtlanta History Center\u003C\/a\u003E, the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.portcolumbus.org\/\u0022\u003ENational Civil War Naval Museum\u003C\/a\u003E, and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.civilwarroundtableofatlanta.org\/\u0022\u003ECivil War Round Table of Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"This symposium on technology and the American Civil War comprises part of the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s contribution to the war\u2019s sesquicentennial commemoration."}],"uid":"27751","created_gmt":"2014-03-27 10:21:54","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:22:50","author":"Vince Pedicino","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-04-12T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-04-12T21:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-04-12T21:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-04-12 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-04-13 01:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-04-13 01:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"287831":{"id":"287831","type":"image","title":"Technology and the Civil War","body":null,"created":"1449244254","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:50:54","changed":"1475894983","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:43","alt":"Technology and the Civil War","file":{"fid":"199143","name":"screen_shot_2014-04-02_at_11.35.48_am.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2014-04-02_at_11.35.48_am_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/screen_shot_2014-04-02_at_11.35.48_am_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":698315,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/screen_shot_2014-04-02_at_11.35.48_am_0.png?itok=v4_KZdpv"}}},"media_ids":["287831"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.hts.gatech.edu\/civilwar","title":"Civil War Symposium"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"90171","name":"CITSP"},{"id":"167908","name":"School of HIstory Technology and Society"},{"id":"90161","name":"US Civil War"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMr. John Miller\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:canoe4ever@gmail.com\u0022\u003Ecanoe4ever@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}