The Penn State STS HTI promotes hands-on education projects built and studied by students from both engineering and the humanities focused on historic machines.

Projects

• Penn State Medieval Windmill

• Timberframing Demonstration

• Smelting Experiment [and video]

• The Ballista

• Villard de Honnecort's Pepetual Motion Machine

• "Astonish Me!" Technologies from 1889-1914 [IAH: Moments of Change]

• From Mine to Furnace: Origins of Ore Washing in Centre Co.

Resources

• Steven A. Walton, "Tilting at Windmills: The Promise and Peril of Campus Construction Projects," AVISTA Forum Journal 17.1/2 (2007): 50-54.
• Matthew B. Crawford, "Shop Class as Soulcraft," The New Atlantis 13 (summer 2006) [see also] [and also]
  
• Retro Resurrections, "Penn State Steam Engine Reconstruction" (2002) [archive link]