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History of communications and the Congruence Engine: early thoughts and possibilities
Science Museum Group Journal, 2023 Communications is one of three strands of research under the Congruence Engine project, and will follow the other two, Textiles and Energy, in trialling the application of digital methods to better connect and understand collections held in partner ...
Jon Agar
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Architectures of Oil: Earthworks and Petrochemicals in Saudi Arabia c. 1973
Histories of Postwar Architecture, 2022 This paper examines the development of the Saudi cities of Jubail and Yanbu in the aftermath of the 1973 OPEC embargo. Developed as a means of shifting away from pure resource extraction and towards value-added technology sectors, the Saudi government ...
B. Jack Hanly
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THE ROMANIAN COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. CONSTANŢA BRANCH [PDF]
Annals: Series on History and Archaeology (Academy of Romanian Scientists), 2020 The Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology/ RCHPST, belonging to the Romanian Academy, currently has seven branches: Argeş, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Constanţa, Craiova, Iaşi and Timişoara.
Alexandru Ş. BOLOGA
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Making Historical Gyroscopes Alive—2D and 3D Preservations by Sensor Fusion and Open Data Access
Sensors, 2021 The preservation of cultural heritage assets of all kind is an important task for modern civilizations. This also includes tools and instruments that have been used in the previous decades and centuries. Along with the industrial revolution 200 years ago,
Dieter Fritsch +6 more
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Science Museum Group Journal, 2017 Unveiled at the conclusion of a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1861,[1] ‘Dr Nelson’s Improved Inhaler’ was one of the most important milestones in the genesis of reliable treatment of respiratory ailments in the modern era ...
Barry Murnane +3 more
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Paimio Sanatorium under Construction
Arts, 2018 Alvar Aalto created innovative architecture in his breakthrough work, Paimio Sanatorium, located in Southwestern Finland and designed between 1928 and 1933.
Marianna Heikinheimo
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Mägi on naine, mäendus on mees: etümoloogiline-feministlik vaade Entbergen’ile essees “Küsimus tehnika järele” [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2019 Unconcealment is truth in Heidegger’s Greek-inspired view – the kind of truth that underlies propositional truth (or correctness), as it concerns the entities that propositions are about, and how they come forth to us.
Ave Mets
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Development of the oil industry in the USA in the 20th century (Part II)
Cхід, 2019 The article looks into the history of the oil and gas industry which has been dynamically developing today. Oil and natural gas as well as their processing products have a very long history of use by mankind though the history of the world oil industry ...
Gennadiy Gayko, Volodymyr Biletsky
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Science Museum Group Journal, 2021 It is often assumed that the development of mechanised production technology and the making of luxury goods are incompatible. Arising from familiar narratives of the Industrial Revolution and echoes of Arts and Crafts thinking, high volume commodities ...
Charles Ormrod
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From Punched Cards to "Big Data": A Social History of Database Populism
communication +1, 2012 Since the diffusion of the punched card tabulator following the 1890 U.S. Census, mass-scale information processing has been alternately a site of opportunity, ambivalence and fear in the American imagination.
Kevin Driscoll
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