This volume takes a look at the past – at the last 50 years in particular – and a look at the present, painting a picture of how the Imperial Royal Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1815, became the Technical University of Vienna - the "TU Wien" - with the launch of the 1975 University Organisation Act, and has increasingly developed into a research university ever since. Contemporaries from the years when the TU Wien was still the TH in Vienna have a place to tell their stories in this volume, alongside articles on interfaculty research facilities and service centres that support the TU Wien's motto, “Technology for people”, by conducting research and applying research results. One of the main goals of this book is to not only inform readers, but also to amuse them a bit as they peruse the pages of the volume.