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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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From Renaissance medals to the Jaguar E-Type car bonnet: mechanised production and the making of luxury goods

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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Distributed Access to Oral History collections: Fitting Access Technology to the needs of Collection Owners and Researchers [PDF]

, 2011
In contrast with the large amounts of potential interesting research material in digital multimedia repositories, the opportunities to unveil the gems therein are still very limited.
Jong, Franciska de, Ordelman, Roeland
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Ways of not reading Gertrude Stein [PDF]

, 2015
I situate the controversial critical strategies of “distant reading” and “surface reading” in the reception history of Gertrude Stein, an author whose work was frequently declared “unreadable.” I argue that an early twentieth-century history of ...
Cecire, Natalia
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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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Leonardo Torres Quevedo: el patrimonio histórico, científico, tecnológico y educativo … y las funciones de la universidad [PDF]

Cabás, 2017
Con ocasión de la conmemoración del centenario del Transbordador del Niágara, a lo largo de 2016 se ha llevado a cabo un denso programa de actividades, promovido desde la asociación cultural Amigos de la Cultura Científica, que han dado contenido al ...
Redondo, F. A. G.
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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

História, 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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Context, Cosplay, and (Re)configurations: Centering the Geek at the Heart of Science Fiction Pedagogy

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021
The course "Science Fiction: Humanity, Technology, the Present, the Future" uses fandom as a motivator for pedagogical development, promoting participation and engagement by encouraging students to embrace their fan passions.
Kimon Keramidas, Fiona Haborak
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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

Varia 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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Post-Hype Uses of Drones in News Reporting: Revealing the Site and Presenting Scope

Media and Communication, 2020
Camera-equipped drones have emerged as an increasingly commonplace tool for media to acquire aerial imagery. Previous research has mainly focused on the innovative aspects and creative potential of the technology.
Jonas Harvard
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