Quaderns d’HistÒria de l’Enginyeria volu m x ii ₂₀₁₁ 259 INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR DAVID EDGERTON, CHoSTM (IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON) Jaume Valentines Álvarez, Jaume Sastre Juan jaume.valentines@upc.edu, jaume.sastre@uab.cat In previous issues, Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria has devoted attention to David Edgerton, Hans Rausing Professor at the Centre for the History of Science, T echnology and Medicine (CHoSTM), at Imperial College, London. Edgerton is one of today’s most original and well-known historians of tech- nology, and his work challenges both the standard views on technology and the history of technology. In 2004, Quaderns translated into Spanish his shocking “T en (eclectic) theses on the history of technology” 1 . These theses became a starting point for writing his most famous book, The Shock of the Old. Technology and global history since 1900 (Profile Books, 2006), which was translated into Spanish as Innovación y tradición. Historia de la tecnología moder- na (Crítica, 2007). An extensive review of the book appeared in this journal in 2008 2 . The Shock of the Old gave a new narrative for the history of technology in the twentieth century that stressed the need to differentiate technology-in-use from innovation. The picture we obtain if we look at the material composition of the twentieth century from this point of view is one that will have to inclu- de as crucial elements the poor world, women, maintenance and recycling, old technologies, etc. Apart from The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton has written other books that reassess twentieth-century British history in terms of the material, such as Warfare State (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Britain’s War Machine (Allen Lane, 2011). 1 EDGERTON, David (2004) “De la innovación al uso: diez tesis eclécticas sobre la historio- grafía de las técnicas” Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria, VI, 1-23. Previous versions: (1998) “De l’innovation aux usages. Dix thèses éclectiques sur l’histoire des techniques”. Annales. Historie, Sciences Sociales, 53 (4-5), 815-837; (1999) “From Innovation to Use: ten (eclectic) the- ses on the history of technology”, History and Technology, 16, 1-26 2 VALENTINES ÁLVAREZ, Jaume (2008) “Tecnologia criolla, femenina, pobra i vella. Una revisió de la imatge de la tecnologia del segle XX”, Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria, IX, 313-324 <http://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/bitstream/2099/8065/1/recensio1.pdf>.