Mikael Hård is Professor of History of Technology at the History Department, University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from Gothenburg University, Sweden, and an M.A. from Princeton University, U.S.A. Before taking on the professorship in Darmstadt he was in the period 1994-1998 Professor of History of Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.

Hård's publications include: The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology: Discourses on Modernity, 1900-1939, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (1998) (co-edited with Andrew Jamison); "The Story-Lines of Technological Change: Innovation, Construction and Appropriation", Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 15 (2003), 81-91 (written with Andrew Jamison); "The Grammar of Technology: German and French Diesel Engineering, 1920-1940", Technology and Culture, 40 (1999), 26-46 (written with Andreas Knie).

hard@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de