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Making Historical Gyroscopes Alive—2D and 3D Preservations by Sensor Fusion and Open Data Access

open access: yesSensors, 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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THE ROMANIAN COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. CONSTANŢA BRANCH [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals: 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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History of communications and the Congruence Engine: early thoughts and possibilities

open access: yesScience 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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Mägi on naine, mäendus on mees: etümoloogiline-feministlik vaade Entbergen’ile essees “Küsimus tehnika järele” [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 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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From Punched Cards to "Big Data": A Social History of Database Populism

open access: yescommunication +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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Architectures of Oil: Earthworks and Petrochemicals in Saudi Arabia c. 1973

open access: yesHistories 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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Frei José Mariano da Conceição Veloso e a divulgação de técnicas industriais no Brasil colonial: discussão de alguns conceitos das ciências químicas Friar José Mariano da Conceição Veloso and the promotion of industrial techniques in colonial Brazil: discussion of some concepts from the chemical sciences

open access: yesHistória, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2009
Na virada para o século XIX, o botânico mineiro frei Veloso desenvolveu intensa atividade de publicação de livros com intuito de divulgar aos colonos do império português técnicas para o melhoramento da produção agrícola e da incipiente indústria química.
Fernando J. Luna
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O desenho e a história da técnica na arquitetura do Brasil colonial The history of technical design in the Brazilian colonial architecture

open access: yesVaria História, 2011
Com a crescente disponibilização de documentos visuais de Arquitetura, especialmente do período do Brasil colonial, esse artigo propõe aos historiadores um conjunto de procedimentos para explorar os valores artísticos e técnicos desses importantes ...
Marcos Tognon
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Medical technologies and the social strategies of two surgical instrument makers in Denmark and Sweden, 1870–1900

open access: yesActa Medico-Historica Rigensia, 2021
Technical professions were important agents in medicine and its knowledge production in the nineteenth century. This paper will look more closely at two examples of the social strategies used by Danish surgical instrument maker Camillus Nyrop and his ...
Kristin Halverson
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Still Life with a Machine

open access: yesRSA Journal, 2003
Focused on the paradigmatic shift brought about by the typewriter on the compositional habits of Cummings, the paper explores the interrelations between the history of technology and his poetry.
Salvatore Marano
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