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