Every year, the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, awards the Turriano ICOHTEC Prize (formerly the ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars) for the best PhD. thesis or monograph on the history of technology. Sponsored by Fundación Juanelo Turriano, the distinction carries a 2500-euro award plus 500 euros for travel expenses.

Research is accepted in any of the five official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian and Spanish).

The winning study is presented during a special session at the ICOHTEC yearly symposium.

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Previous winners

2024:
Jacob Ward, Visions of a Digital Nation. Market and Monopoly in British Communications. Available  online.

Francesco d’Amaro, Antipatriotas del Agua. Conflictos y grupos de interés en el Franquismo.

2023:
Henk-Jan Dekker, Cycling Pathways. The Politics and Governance of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure, 1920-2020. Available  online.

ex aequo

Diana Montaño, Electrifying Mexico. Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City.

A honourable mention:
Helen Ahner, Planetarien. Wunder der Technik – Techniken des Wunderns. Available  online.

2022:
Waqar L. Zaidi,Technological Internationalism and World Order. Aviation, Atomic Energy, and the Search for International Peace, 1920–1950.

ex aequo

Sébastien  Pautet, Le  defi  chonois  des Lumières. Savoirs techniques et économie politique en France au temps des circulations sino-européennes  (XVIIe-XVIIIe  siècles).

2021 : 
Hyeok Hweon Kang, Crafting Knowledge: Artisan, Officer, and the Culture of Making in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910. Available  online.

Two honourable mentions:
Philippe Bruyèrre, La puissance du vent.

Martin Meiske, Die Geburt des Geoengineerings.

2020 :
Claas Kirchhelle, Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production. Available online.

Nicolas Simoncini, Histoire de la recherche sur les piles à combustible en France des années soixante aux années quarte-vingt. Available online.

A honourable mention:
Lucía Jimena Juárez, Trading Nations: Architecture, Informal Empire, and the Scottish Cast Iron Industry in Argentina. Available online.

2019: 
Maria Rikitianskaia, European Radiotelegraphy and World War I: A Transnational Perspective, 1912–1927. 

Three honourable mentions:
Jaroslav Švelch, Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games. 

Pauline Lewis, Wired Ottomans: A Sociotechnical History of the Telegraph and the Modern Ottoman Empire, 1855-1911. Available online.

Barbara Berger, Der Gasbehälterals Bautypus. Baukonstruktionsgeschichte des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. In England entwickelt, in Deutschland optimiert, weltweitverbreitet – gezeigt am Beispiel Italiens. Available online.

2018: 
Lino Camprubi, Los ingenieros de Franco. Ciencia, catolicismo y Guerra Fría en el Estado franquista

Two honourable mentions:
Jonas van der Straeten, Transmitting development. Global networks and the development of local grids in the electrification of East Africa, 1906-1970. Available online.

David López López y Marta Domènech Rodríguez, Tile vaults. Structural analysis and experimentation. 2nd Guastavino Biennial. 

2017: 
Brice Cossart, Les artilleurs et la Monarchie Catholique: Fondements technologiques et scientifiques d’un empire transocéanique (The Gunners and the Catholic Monarch War: Technology and Science in the Shaping of a Transoceanic Empire). Disponible online.

2016: 
Vanessa Meikle Schulman, Work sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America.

2015: 
Karena Kalmbach, Meanings of a Disaster: The Contested ‘Truth’ about Chernobyl. British and French Chernobyl Debates and the Transnationality of Arguments and Actors.Available online.

2014: 
Dora Vargha, Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs: Governing Polio in Cold War Hungary 1952-1963.

2013: 
Laura Ann Twagira, Women and Gender at the Office du Niger (Mali).Available online.

2012:
Hermione Giffard, The development and production of turbojet aero-engines in Britain, Germany and the United States, 1936-1945.

2011:
Christopher Neumaier, Dieselautos in Deutschland und den USA, Zum Verhältnis von Technologie, Konsum und Politik, 1949 –2005.

2010:
Anne-Katrine Ebert, Ein Ding der Nation? Das Fahrrad in Deutschland und den Niederlanden, 1880-1940: Eine vergleichende Konsumgeschichte.

2009: 
Anna Storm, Hope and Rust: Reinterpreting the Industrial Place in the Late 20th Century.