"Looking Back, Looking Beyond": The Washington, D.C., Meeting, 17-21 October 2007.

The article discusses the highlights of the 48th meeting and 50th anniversary celebration of the Society for the History of Technology in Washington D.C. in October 2007. The organizers of the session "Engineering SHOT: The Past and Present Relationship Between Historians of Technology and Engineers" were Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher and Bruce Seely. Papers submitted for "A Feeling for the Machine: Technology and Affect in Europe, 1750-1830" included "Mechanical Musicians and the Human-Machine Boundary in the Sentimental Culture of Eighteenth-Century Europe."