The exhibition 200 Years – 100 Objects. Parts of a Whole – Selected Elements in KIT's History, its digital presentation online as well as in the exhibition at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and in catalog form were made possible thanks to the collaboration of many individuals. The variety of their contributions makes it impossible to give due acknowledgment to each of their individual efforts.

The experts on the advisory board who followed the progress of this project were: Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth (Karlsruhe), Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann (Dresden), Prof. Dr. Thorsten Logge (Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Marcus Popplow (Karlsruhe), Prof. Dr. Dieter Speck (Freiburg), Prof. Dr. Helmuth Trischler (Munich).

The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, most kindly welcomed, hosted, and supported our exhibited selection of objects, along with the accompanying digital presentation. The people involved were: Alistair Hudson, Anne Däuper, Natascha Daher, Manuel Weber, Philipp Ziegler, and other members of the ZKM team who cannot be named here, as well as Dr. Helga Huskamp.

Exhibited objects were proposed by: Mikail Albayrak (075), Kerstin Bausch (055), Dr. Michael E. Becker (024), Christine Bender (065), Emanuel Bronka (064), Eckhard Dietrich (036), Jochen Dietrich (076), Fachschaft Maschinenbau/Chemieingenieurwesen at KIT (079), Frank Geyer (061), Dr. Mathias Heckele (063; 069), Dr. Rixt Hoekstra (053), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (Atmospheric Environmental Research) at KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (007), Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at KIT (090), Dr. Ferdinand Leikam (078), Dr. Heiko Maas (071), Alexander Markert (080), Dr. Peter Müller (012), Magdalena Pfeiffer (086), Hans Richter (088), Hans-Christan Schneider (054; 062), Prof. Dr. Kathrin Valerius (085), Anja Weindel (068) and Christel Wessely (059). Many other persons have proposed objects, who cannot be listed here by name. Their participation contributed essentially toward fine-tuning our selection criteria.

The loaning of objects, the granting of access to reproductions and to the rights to use them, came from: Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe (011), Deutsches Museum in Munich (073; 075), Jochen Dietrich (076), Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA/Lübeck (048), Engler-Bunte-Institut at KIT (094), Executive Board of KIT (009; 026; 083), Peter Faulhaber (066), Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (004; 044), Geodetic Institute at KIT (002), Institut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung at KIT (056), Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at KIT (082), Institute for Applied Materials (Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces, Fusion Materials Laboratory) at KIT (062), Institute for Astroparticle Physics at KIT (085), Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics at KIT (071), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (Atmospheric Environmental Research) at KIT in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (007), Institute for Technical Physics at KIT (072), Institute of Thermal Processing Engineering at KIT (038), Karlsruhe City Archive (078), Karlsruhe Research Accelerator KARA at KIT (061), Kerntechnische Entsorgung Karlsruhe GmbH (008; 060; 089; 097), KIT Archives at KIT Library (006; 010; 013–017; 020–025; 027; 029-035; 037; 039; 043; 045–052; 055; 059; 063–065; 068–070; 074; 076; 077; 079; 081; 083; 084; 086; 090; 092; 095; 096; 100), KIT Department of Architecture (054), KIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (018), KIT Library (005; 019), Anette Kup (034), Alexander Markert (080), Prof. Dr. Claus Mattheck (070), Nucleonica GmbH/Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen (060), Dr. Rüdiger Rombach (028), saai | Archive for Architecture and Engineering at KIT (003; 053), Prof. Dr. Heike Sahm (041), Scientific Computing Center at KIT (057; 087), State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe (012), Symphony Orchestra of KIT (088), Technoseum | Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit in Mannheim (067), Universitätsarchiv Freiburg (001), and Christel Wessely (058).

The following experts have contributed topical articles or have given helpful advice: Mikail Albayrak, Dr. Marie Luisa Allemeier, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tamim Asfour, Dr. Michael E. Becker, Dr. Marco Birn, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Henning Bockhorn, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Winfried Görke, Dr. Anton F. Guhl, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kind, Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, Dr. Maria Männig, Dr. Thomas Meyer, Prof. Dr. Michael Mönnich, Prof. Dr. Kurt Möser, Jonas Moosmüller, Prof. Dr. Peter Nick, Len Piltz, Prof. Dr. Marcus Popplow, Katja Protte, Prof. Dr. Holger Puchta, Prof. Michael Rotert, Dr. Klaus Rümmele, Dr. Anja Sattelmacher, Dr. Enrico Savio, Prof. Dr. Swantje Scharenberg, Dr. Joachim Schulz (†), Dr. Alice Seibert, Dr. Zsolt Sóti, Prof. Dr. Kathrin Valerius, Dr. Heiko Wegmann, Anja Weindel, Dr. Leonardo Weiss F. Chaves, Dr. Henning Wöhler, and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Zwick.

The following individuals from the KIT jubilee project group offered special assistance: the project director Wiebke Reis from the team Knowledge Transfer and Political Relations in KIT's services unit Executive Office and Strategy (STS-WT) with the following members of KIT's services units Campus Services (CSE), Executive Office (STS), and Innovation and Relations Management (IRM) as well as members of the president's office: Lydia Albrecht (CSE, Media Production [MPE]), Alina Aldinger (CSE, Event Management [VAM]), Dr.-Ing. Jens Fahrenberg (director, IRM), Viktoria Fitterer (director, CSE), Dorothea Flößer (IRM, Fundraising and Sponsorship [FUSS]), Isabelle Hartmann-Dietsch (STS, Corporate Communications [GK]), Prof. Dr. Thomas Hirth (vice-president, Transfer and International Affairs), Christina Klag (IRM-FUSS), Isabell Knapper (CSE-VAM), Lara Loos (STS-WT), Domenica Riecker-Schwörer (CSE-VAM) and Brigitte Stahl-Busse (STS-GK).

The majority of the images for the exhibition were produced by KIT's Campus Services media production office. It also provided material from its media database and gave consistent assistance in the design of the physical exhibition as well as the digital version and the catalog. The collaborators were: Lydia Albrecht, Amadeus Bramsiepe, Hangyan Chen, Adrian Dickhoff, Ilvy Egler, Christoph Engel (ARCH) and Crina Preda.

Further video productions for the digital exhibition were done at the Corporate Communications division in KIT's services unit Executive Office and Strategy by Tatjana Schwarzbeck, Anja Sefrin, and Adrian Yass.

The physical display of the objects in the exhibition, the online equivalent, and the multi-touch table on-site, were all carried out by the team at PONG Li Studios in Karlsruhe: Mirijam Binder (art direction), Dominik Frasmann (design assistance), Thomas Heck (graphic design), Dorothea von Holtey (project management), Sergiy Ptushkin (website management), Andreas Siefert (creative direction), Chiara Stopfkuchen (project assistance), Jonas Sulzer (development of the multi-touch table application), Anastasia Varfolomeev (3-D artist).

Construction of the exhibition was realized by "die möbelwerkstatt" Bentzen Karlsruhe, Jan-Nicolas Bentzen and team.

Dr. Anton F. Guhl laid the basis for the planned exhibition between 2021 and 2022 and organized the call for objects, conducted research on objects, and selected most of the exhibited objects. His team at KIT Archives consisted of: his assistant Anja Weindel and the student aids Luna Labenz, Magdalena Pfeiffer, Patricia Schillinger, and Martin Benjamin Ullmann.

Further support offered the team at KIT Archives in the form of assistance, proofreading, expert advice, discussion, and research: Steven Bruskowski, Simone Dahringer-Boy, Kerstin Hundsdorf, Judith Käpplinger, Dominique Kretz, Gesine Marek, Thomas Müller, and Inka Resch.

The English translation was provided by Robert Burke Barrett (Frankfurt) and revised by Ann M. Hentschel (Stuttgart).

The catalog was designed by Christoph Engel and the printing and publication of the catalog was entrusted to Hatje Cantz Verlag in the hands of Juliane Eisele, Lena Kiessler and Thomas Lemaître. At KIT Scientific Publishing the open access publication was supervised by Christine Rohde and Tina Zimmerman. Jens Lutz and Miriam Stürner from ZKM's Publications department also contributed to the project.

We are most warmly and deeply grateful to all of you!

Karlsruhe, April 2025

Klaus Nippert (curator), Andrea Stengel (curator), Jonas Zilius (creative direction)

The texts in this volume come from the authors, as indicated. These views do not necessarily coincide with those of the curators. Unless otherwise indicated, the object descriptions are by Andrea Stengel (as) and Klaus Nippert (kn).

More in-depth commentary or texts on specific objects originate from the following authors:

Albayrak, Mikail: On the Development of Akaflieg AK-1 (commentary on object 075).

Asfour, Tamim: Humanoid Robot (article on object 082).

Becker, Michael E. and Wöhler, Henning: From the Carrot to the Flat Screen (commentary on object 024).

Birn, Marco: On the Introduction of Women into Academic Study in Germany (commentary on object 028).

Bockhorn, Henning: Hans Bunte's Research and Development in Technology (commentary on object 029).

Görke, Winfried: How the Learning Matrix Works (commentary on object 056).

Guhl, Anton F.: Two Views on Denazification (commentary on object 052).

Guhl, Anton F.: On the Role of Student Protest in the Steinbuch Case (commentary on object 100).

Kind, Matthias: On the Role of Chemical Engineering (commentary on object 038).

Kunze, Rolf-Ulrich: Maneuvering Room during the Dictatorship (commentary on object 044).

Männig, Maria: The Lantern-Slide Presentation as a Medial Innovation (commentary on object 021).

Mönnich, Michael: The Periodic System of the Elements and the Karlsruhe Congress of Chemists (commentary on object 011).

Möser, Kurt: Hydrogen as an Alternative Energy Source for Private Transport (commentary on object 067).

Nick, Peter: see Puchta.

Popplow, Marcus: Drawings in Engineering (commentary on object 023).

Puchta, Holger and Nick, Peter: Karlsruhe as the Cradle of Genetics (commentary on object 012).

Rotert, Michael: Eye-witness Report (commentary on object 078).

Sattelmacher, Anja: Modern Models (commentary on object 020).

Savio, Enrico: Redtenbacher's Work in the Context of Intellectual History (commentary on object 017).

Scharenberg, Swantje: On the Design of the Academic Sports Stadium in Karlsruhe (commentary on object 040).

Schulz, Joachim (†): Application of the LIGA Process in the Construction of Microcomponents (commentary on object 069).

Sóti, Zsolt: Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart – Insights into Its History (commentary on object 060).

Valerius, Kathrin: Precision Balance for the Lightest Elementary Particles (article on object 085).

Weindel, Anja: Outcome of a Quest for Meaning (commentary on object 068).

Wöhler, Henning: see Becker.

Zwick, Thomas: Freedom of Research 140 Years Ago (commentary on object 022).

This exhibition contains photographs (P), videos (V) and three-dimensional representations (3D). These media are used as the main illustrations of the exhibition objects (M) or as supplementary material (S). The letters in parenthesis help distinguish between these different media types and uses. After the respective authorship, the method of use (M/S/MS for both) appears in parenthesis, followed by the media type or media types (P/V/3D).

Most photographs reproduced for this exhibition originate from Amadeus Bramsiepe and Jonas Zilius from KIT's Campus Services media production office. Amadeus Bramsiepe and Jonas Zilius also created the three-dimensional representations of objects for the digital exhibition.

The authors of the individual media are listed below:

Andres, Harald: object 59 (S: P).

Bauer (no first name known): object 47 (S: P), object 50 (S: P).

Bauer, Erich: object 43 (S: P), object 50 (S: P).

Bauer, Karl: object 39 (S: P), object 50 (S: P).

Bramsiepe, Amadeus and Zilius, Jonas: object 2 (M: P, 3D), object 7 (M: P, 3D), object 9 (S: P), object 10 (MS: P), object 11 (MS: P), object 12 (M: P), object 13 (M: P), object 14 (MS: P), object 16 (MS: P), object 17 (MS: P), object 18 (MS: P), object 19 (S: P, 3D), object 20 (M: P, 3D, S: P), object 21 (MS: P), object 22 (S: P, 3D), object 23 (MS: P), object 24 (M: P, S: P, 3D), object 25 (MS: P), object 26 (MS: P), object 29 (MS: P), object 30 (M: P), object 31 (MS: P), object 32 (MS: P), object 33 (MS: P), object 36 (M: P, 3D), object 37 (M: P), object 38 (M: P), object 39 (M: P, 3D), object 40 (MS: P), object 41 (M: P), object 43 (M: P), object 46 (M: P), object 48 (M: P, 3D, S: P), object 51 (M: P), object 53 (MS: P), object 54 (M: P), object 55 (MS: P), object 57 (MS: P), object 58 (MS: P), object 59 (M: P), object 60 (S: P), object 61 (MS: P), object 62 (M: P, S: 3D), object 64 (MS: P), object 65 (MS: P), object 66 (MS: P), object 67 (M: P, 3D, S: P), object 68 (MS: P), object 71 (M: P), object 72 (M: P), object 74 (S: P), object 77 (MS: P), object 78 (S: P), object 80 (M: P), object 81 (M: P), object 83 (MS: P), object 84 (M: P, 3D), object 86 (M: P), object 88 (MS: P), object 89 (M: P), object 90 (M: P, 3D), object 91 (M: P), object 92 (MS: P), object 93 (M: P, 3D), object 94 (MS: P), object 95 (M: P), object 96 (MS: P), object 97 (M: P), object 98 (M: P).

Breig, Markus: object 85 (MS: P).

Burger, Wilhelm: object 39 (S: P).

Cardenas, Rafael: object 88 (S: P).

Czech, Hubert: object 24 (S: P), object 73 (M: P).

Deck, Uli: object 88 (S: P).

Donecker, Rolf: object 42 (S: P), object 74 (S: P).

Ulrike Faulhaber: object 66 (S: P).

Laurson, Ilse: object 38 (S: P), object 47 (S: P), object 50 (S: P).

Müller-Klink, Joachim: object 78 (S: P).

Nippert, Klaus: object 36 (S: P).

Prevete, Ricardo: object 26 (MS: P).

Reichert, H./Heinrich: object 38 (S: P), object 43 (S: P), object 50 (S: P).

SBL (abbreviation given with pictures available on the Internet): object 28 (S: P).

Schlitz (no first name known): object 40 (S: P).

Schüler, Gerhard: object 69 (M: P).

Seeland, Bernd: object 98 (S: P).

Stengel, Andrea: object 86 (S: P).

Waibel, Alexander: object 84 (S: PV)

Zilius, Jonas: see Bramsiepe.

Zimmermann, Adrian: object 90 (S: P).

The videos for objects 56, 69 and 70 were created by Tatjana Schwarzbeck and Adrian Yass from the Corporate Communications division in KIT's services unit Executive Office and Strategy at KIT.

Photographs from KIT Archives with the holding no. 28028, come from the Nuclear Research Center Karlsruhe (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe) and the Research Center Karlsruhe (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe). As a rule, specific copyright information for these photographs is unavailable. Furthermore, photographs from KIT's Campus Services media production office were used, for which there is also no proof of authorship. In both cases, it may be assumed that the rights to these images, almost all of which had been taken by employees of the Center, lie with KIT.

Further images from KIT Archives appear, though their authorship could not be determined. In many cases, it is likely that copyrights have expired.

Legitimate copyright claims to images reproduced in this exhibition may be submitted to KIT Archives.