Thomas Turnbull is a Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). He studied history and geography at Kings College London and the University of Oxford. Before coming to the MPIWG, Thomas worked as a policy advisor for a London-based environmental think tank involved in implementing the European Eco-design Directive. He has also been part of a project at Cambridge University’s Museum of Anthropology, which was dedicated to preserving endangered languages via the creation of an audio database. He was previously a predoctoral fellow at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, and then Life Members Fellow in the History of Electrical and Computing Technology at the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), and he was an awardee of the American Institute of Physics small grant for archival research. While at the MPIWG, Thomas has been invited to collaborate with Maastricht University as a visiting fellow on the project Managing Scarcity and Sustainability, headed by Professor Cyrus Mody. This five-year project is directed toward documenting the oil industry’s short-lived support for alternative energy technologies in the 1970s.