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How to Activate the Potential of Imaginary Networks

VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
I explore how imaginary networks provide us with meaningful models for alternative future networks outside of or beyond the internet. This essay mostly looks first at how media archaeology’s interest in uncovering media from the past to reimagine media ...
Lori Emerson
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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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Reconstructions: recreating science and technology of the past [PDF]

, 2011
Historic reconstructions have become a decisive tool in the history of science and technology.
Staubermann, Klaus
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The Electrification of Tramways in Ostrava in 1900–1901

Acta Polytechnica, 2012
This paper focuses on the electrification of tramways in Ostrava in 1900-1901. As the administrative, economic and cultural centre of an evolving industrial agglomeration, Ostrava had specific transportation requirements.
Michaela Závodná
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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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Philosophy of Blockchain Technology - Ontologies [PDF]

, 2019
About the necessity and usefulness of developing a philosophy specific to the blockchain technology, emphasizing on the ontological aspects. After an Introduction that highlights the main philosophical directions for this emerging technology, in ...
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Introduction: History from Underneath the Surface: Diving and Submarine Environments since the Nineteenth Century

Journal for the History of Environment and Society
The introduction to this special issue of the Journal for the History of Environment and Society argues that diving has been and remains a crucial practice for experiencing the sea, studying the underwater environment, and exploiting life and resources ...
Eike-Christian Heine
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Wireless Telegraphy at the German Universal Exhibition in Ústí nad Labem in 1903 [1]

Acta Polytechnica, 2008
This paper focuses on the transmission of wireless telegraphy between Ústí nad Labem and Teplice during the German Universal Exhibition in Ústí nad Labem in 1903.
T. Okurka
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Numérique et humanités : de l’ancillarité à la fécondité grâce à la modélisation computationnelle des connaissances

Humanités Numériques, 2023
The digital transformation of society also affects the humanities and social sciences (HSS). The digital humanities follow the general pattern of digital history, which we will briefly describe.
Yannis Delmas-Rigoutsos
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NASA helicopter transmission system technology program [PDF]

, 1983
The purpose of the NASA Helicopter Transmission System Technology Program is to improve specific mechanical components and the technology for combining these into advanced drive systems to make helicopters more viable and cost competitive for commerical ...
Zaretsky, E. V.
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