Gildo Magalhães dos Santos Filho
CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduated as Electronical Engineeer, at the University of São Paulo (1972) and Ph.D in History, University of São Paulo (1994). He received a scholarship of the Krupp and Humboldt Foundations (Germany), was Resident Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.) and Fellow of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, USA). He is currently Full Professor, Department of History at the University of São Paulo, and a collaborating professor at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, and at the Universty of Lisbon (Center for the Philosophy of Science). An expert in History of Science and Technology, he works mainly on the following subjects: history of science and technology ,history of electricity in Brazil, epistemology, scientific public communication, history of science & technology policies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
- 2nd Congress of History of Science and Technology contemporary challenges, AO.R
- Bavaria and São Paulo/Brazil: the making of science, arts and knowledge in an entanglement perspective since the 19th century| São Paulo - SP, AO.R
- 45th ICOHTEC Annual Meeting, AR.EXT
(Only some records are available in English at this moment)
- The plant of "noisy jump": the expansion of the São Paulo Tramway, light and power co. and Brazilian traction in social and economic context of São Paulo, BP.DR
Abstract
The formation of the holding Brazilian Traction in 1912, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, brought together under the same administration the two foreign companies greater financial sucess in Brazil at that time, the São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company and the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power Company. Besides these two, well-known, it would be managed by holding a third, f...
- Indexing of photographs produced during expeditions to hydroelectric plants under the project "history of electricity in the State of São Paulo (1890-1960): industrial heritage, landscape and environment", BP.IC
Abstract
This work aims, from the indexation of photographs produced by field research, expand the conceptual map and the theoretical framework of the Electric Power Controlled Vocabulary in the industrial heritage category in order to represent and retrieve information related to the industrial heritage of the electricity sector Sao Paulo currently dispersed
- History of electric energy in the State of São Paulo (1890-1960): industrial heritage, landscape and environment; small hydroelectric power plants cartographic collection in the State of São Paulo - Eletromemória II Project - survey and systematization, BP.IC
Abstract
The Eletromemory Project in its second phase presents innovations as the study of the first central state of power generation of São Paulo, comprising a period from 1890 to 1960, in which the state was about to begin the process of industrialization. In its first phase, the Project 1 Eletromemory organized a database on archival heritage, industrial, material culture and the museum pote...
(Only some records are available in English at this moment)
| 14 / 5 | Completed research grants |
| 13 / 5 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 27 / 10 | All research grants and scholarships |
| Associated processes | |
(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)
RICARDI, Alexandre. A companhia água e luz do estado de São Paulo e suas relações de conflito na formação do parque elétrico paulistano, 1890-1910. 2013. Dissertação (Mestrado) - Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo.
BOTIN, Livia Maria. Ciência e tecnologia em debate: uma análise das entrevistas do programa Roda Viva, da TV Cultura (1986-2006). 2016. Tese (Doutorado) – Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas. Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo.