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Earlier today, @STS_News asked about researchers studying the history of #standardization.

That reminded me that I haven't had a chance to share some of the highlights from @LindaHall_org's latest exhibition: The #Standards That Built America!

Time for a šŸ§µ! (1/8) #histSTM #STS
Curated by reference assistant David Crawford, this exhibition showcases a few of the 100,000+ industrial #standards in LHL's stacks.

Many of these standards were once part of the Engineering Societies Library & are hard to find anywhere else! (2/8)

libguides.lindahall.org/standards_specā€¦
LHL's #standards are often overlooked compared to our #RareBooks & #Journals, but they tell an important #engineering story. Groups like @ansidotorg, @IEEESA & @isostandards have helped promote interoperability, safety & accessibility in a variety of technological contexts. (3/8)
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šŸ„³Publication day for #UndergroundMathematics! Thanks to everyone involvedā¤ļø

Hereā€™s a shortšŸ§µto its main argument: How did practical mathematics and a culture of accuracy developed in EM Europe? Rationality wasnā€™t just about scholars, it included craftsmen and artisans too!
Practical mathematics was ubiquitous, from wine gauging to mercantile arithmetic. It was widely depicted, as here in ā€˜The Measurersā€™ (see Jim Bennettā€™s great piece on this painting @HSMOxford). And yet, usual narratives have forgotten a whole discipline: subterranean geometry!
The Geometria Subterranea was also known as Markscheidekunst or ā€˜the art of setting limitsā€™. These surveyors were working underground in the silver mines of the Empire, in Scandinavia and Spain, but who knows what their mathematics was? Or how it was taught and improved?
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Today a šŸ§µon mining maps, how to look at them, and what they tell us about how people perceived the underground world! With bits of map history, paper history, and obviously lots of #UndergroundMathematics. For the untrained eye, these maps are difficult to understand... #HistSTM
These maps are in fact a recent development, mostly in the 17th century. An old minerā€™s proverb said that ā€œno one can see through stoneā€, and in fact it used to be a huge problem: how to see limits of concessions, to locate water wheels and ore vein?
In the 15th c. there was virtually no room for maps. Extraction was monitored directly, by visitations from mining masters and jurors, as their ā€˜Augenscheinā€™ (visual inspection) was decisive. Things began to change bc rulers wanted to monitor their underground riches at distance
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The October 2022 of Technology and Culture is OUT! It discusses: offices, epistemic racism, the technosphere, spinning machinery, escalators, plant care tech, hearing aids, radio, torpedo boats, virtual research, and more! Let's check out what is inside. The cover of the October is...
Check out this @ProjectMUSE link to see the issue online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/48974

Articles will receive individual focus in the coming weeks/months, and then we'll tag related orgs and communities. For now, let's review the contents of the issue!
@kaufmannn_buhler discusses the cover image in ā€œWorking in the Electronic Gardenā€ taken from a marketing image for @HermanMiller's Action Office which imagined the open plan office as a dynamic, supportive, and personalized space.
Link: muse.jhu.edu/article/868047 This watercolor illustratio...
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We are proud to present the next issue (Number 3, July 2022) of Technology and Culture, the leading journal in the history of technology; it draws on scholarship in diverse disciplines to publish insightful pieces intended for general readers and specialists. Let's review! July 2022 cover of Technology and Culture, Viktor Bulla's 19
In following weeks and months we'll highlight each article more specifically and connect authors and communities on twitter when possible but this thread will be a general roundup of it all for the general #histSTM #STS #envhist #history #digitalsts #computing #mediastudies crowd
Kirill Chunikhin opens with a reflection on the cover of the July 2022 issue in "Establishing Eye Contact with One Historical Photograph"

muse.jhu.edu/article/859717 Viktor Bulla's 1937 photograph Pioneers Defense, taken outsi
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A historianā€™s dream, the Farm Hall transcripts capture the secretly recorded conversations of Werner Heisenberg and 9 other German physicists discussing the atomic bomb in 1945. So why do scholars disagree on what they tell us? šŸ§µ#histSTM #twitterstorians physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.ā€¦
The Farm Hall transcripts are among the most famous primary sources in 20th-century physics. They document conversations between 10 German physicists suspected of working on an atomic project for Nazi Germany, including Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, and Carl Friedrich von WeizsƤcker.
The physicists were rounded up at the end of World War II by Allied intelligence and imprisoned in a luxurious English country mansion called Farm Hall, where their conversations were secretly recorded.

šŸ“· AIP ESVA/NARA Farm Hall, in 1945 or 1946.
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We've seen this bookplate on several digitization requests @LindaHall_org recently, @JECumby and I are charmed by it. It is the bookplate of FrantiŔek Fischer, and here's a thread about who he was & how we put a name with this bookplate. #rarebooks #speccolls #histstm #histastro Bookplate depicting a house with an attached observatory, wi
We often see bookplates and cannot suss out whose they were. I took a go at "Mag. F. Fischer" in the googler, and came up with a catalog from Jeff Weber that identified Fischer as an astronomer from Prague. Now we have something more than a name! weberrarebooks.com/media/home/Catā€¦
There is also this MS (Oversize Ms. Codex 618) at Kislak (fyi, @leoba ): franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLā€¦
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Today I'm celebrating the official release & #bookbirthday of #AnOrganofMurder @RutgersUPress! I am so grateful to my many #histmed #histSTM friends, colleagues, and mentors who've helped me on the road to my first book. 1/
If you'd like a taste of #AnOrganofMurder, you can check out my recent public-facing essays.

In @nursingclio:
nursingclio.org/2020/12/08/redā€¦ 2/
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Our latest issue (No. 249) the final one of 2020 is out now: academic.oup.com/past/issue Check out all of the articles it contains belowšŸ‘‡

#socialhistory #culturalhistory #twitterstorians @OUPHistory
2/ "Military Mobility, Authority and Negotiation in Early Colonial India" academic.oup.com/past/article/2ā€¦ by Christna Welsch @WoosterEdu

#imphist #globalhist #earlymodern #socialhistory #culturalhistory #Twitterstorians
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Today is the start of #SHW2020! Each day this week, I'll be tweeting about Britain's long, tempestuous and ever-so-slightly bonkers loveā€“hate relationship with its #sexualhealth.

Darlings, brace yourselves. šŸ’‹ #SHW20 Image
We begin with the Victorians, who, contrary to popular belief, were obsessed with sex. In the C19, the only known #STIs were syphilis and gonorrhoea. Diagnosis depended on observable symptoms (no blood tests/smears). Effective treatments were non-existent. Image: @ExploreWellcome Image
In 1864 the British government introduced the Contagious Diseases Acts, intended to protect the armed forces through 'regulation' of 'common prostitutes'. The Acts gave police almost-unlimited discretionary powers to arrest any woman they thought might be soliciting. Image: HCPP Image
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Today is #NationalDogDay!
Time to re-examine the roles dogs have played in #DisHist!
For centuries, artists have shown dogs accompanying blind subjects, performers & beggars across the world, suggesting that dogs lived/worked alongside disabled handlers. The black and white illustr...The color image shows medie...The black and white photo s...
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Medieval European texts show figures that might possibly be blind holding a staff & the lead of a dog. As per @NinonDubourg, dogs were not considered reliable or safe in theory, but they were likely used as companions and fellow performers while begging.
#DisHist #envhist The color photo shows margi...The color image shows margi...
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For more on #DisHist and good dogs in medieval illustrations, you can read @drkmurchā€™s blog here: kristamurchison.com/medieval-guideā€¦

And @JudeSealā€™s @ExploreWellcome piece here: wellcomecollection.org/articles/XszQJā€¦

#NationalDogDay #envhist #animalhistories
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LAST CHANCE TO SEE (for now): talks and events from the @BSHSNews History of Science Festival #HistSciFest are online for the rest of today at bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/progā€¦.

Here is a slightly random thread of things I attended and enjoyed... ImageImageImageImage
(The intention ā€“ to be confirmed ā€“ is to make all the videos available again long-term on a different platform, if participants agree... but we need to take them off the current system now, as it's costing the Society a lot and mainly designed for live events) #HistSciFest
I'll start with the session which generated the biggest buzz from attendees: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
bshsfestival.org.uk/index.php/progā€¦, featuring five PhD students on their experiences and plans, with a particular focus on the opportunities and challenges of decolonising academia. #HistSciFest Image
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Hi #histSTM #histsci #histmed #twitterstorians of #biology & #biomedicine!

I haven't seen a list of digital #archive materials to use in this moment of quarantine, so I'll start one

Emphasis on collections with broad & eclectic materials.

picture: me in papery days. Image
the @CSHLLibrary has a digital repository which includes papers of individual life scientists but also lots of the material they accrued on related issues (the war on cancer, human genome project, etc.)

archivesspace.cshl.edu/repositories/2
@nlm_news maintains the "Profiles in Science" page, which has scanned and distributed papers from numerous (bio)medical researchers-- once again a great collection to run keywords through!
lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/project/profilā€¦
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@skidwayy is here now to talk about ā€˜Complexities Around Translating Scientific Knowledge in 19th Century British Indiaā€™ #ScienceInUrdu #BSHSGlobalHist
@skidwayy 1/12 While Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898), founder of @AligarhMuslimUn, is a well-known figure in South Asia, his contributions to science education and popularization are relatively unexamined. Today, I am going to introduce us to some examples #histSTM #BSHSGlobalHist The cover for ā€˜The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khanā€™ (2018).
@skidwayy @AligarhMuslimUn 2/12 In 1844 he published an Urdu translation of a Persian text titled ā€˜Tashil fi Jar-e Saqil.ā€™ In it, he covered 5 machines/contraptions that could lift heavy loads, compress material & break hard matter #BSHSGlobalHist
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What does disability offer as a category of historical analysis? Why does #DisHist matter?
Here is an eg:
Born in Sardinia, Antonio Gramsci (1891ā€“
1937) lived with physical disability, possibly due to Pott's disease (image not of him).../ The image shows a black and white photograph of the back of a young boy with deformities of the spine and neck.
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His mother held to the idea that he was disabled after a fall down a flight of stairs which she blamed on a servant. The young Gramsci lived with chronic pain, and his condition may have impacted his growth as well.
#DisHist #DisabilityHistory #histmed The image shows a black and white photograph of a middle aged woman with dark hair wearing a dark dress, holding a toddler with dark curly hair and a white dress. The photo appears to be from the early 20th century.
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Gramsci's own writings describe how he was called a gobbo (hunchback) by those around him & described how his condition made him feel like an "intruder" in his family.../
#DisHist #histchild #histmed
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We really need to talk about #history, dear Data-will-safe-the-future-folks.

This is a ridiculous take and stunningly disconnected from all the brilliant debates on history of data-science / history of #bigdata in the last years. #histstm

theguardian.com/technology/201ā€¦
There was this in 2017, a great Osiris issue on #Datahistories, asking about the histories of data and data-sets and reminding everyone to have a second look at the question, if big data is the answer. journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/201ā€¦
Or one could look at this issue in HSNS, where de Chadarevian & Porter ( and all other authors) where doing an excellent job of 'scrutinizing the data world' hsns.ucpress.edu/content/48/5
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So I'm still processing my thoughts about The #CurrentWar.

My immediate reaction upon leaving the theater: This film is custom-made for a crossover between @SocHistTech and History at the Movies (#HATM).

(@HerbertHistory-If this comes to pass, let me know!)

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A few additional thoughts: The movie makes it very clear that the #CurrentWar was between Edison & Westinghouse.

Yes, Tesla is there too (more on him in a moment), but the system-builders (cf. Hughes) are front and center.

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I was also pleasantly surprised to see Mary Stillwell Edison and Marguerite Erskine Walker Westinghouse featured prominently in the film. The latter is actually referred to as George's wife & business partner.

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Did you know that @HSNatSci publishes essay reviews? These reviews are ~3-4K words in length and creatively engage in #histTSM related books that are thematically related. We've published everything from retrospective looks at classics to emerging new directions 1/
They started in this format with the relaunch of @HSNatSci in 2008 under the guidance of then Book Review co-editors @GordinMichael and Angela Creager. The first two published were Matthew Stanley's "Einstein: Essence or Explanation?" V.38(2008): 153-61 hsns.ucpress.edu/content/38/1/1ā€¦ 2/
Stanley incl. 2 biographies of Einstein by @WalterIsaacson & JĆ¼rgen Neffe, & an edited collection by David Rowe & Robert Schulmann, to think about the "reliance on personality as an explanatory category," esp. with #Einstein #histSTM hsns.ucpress.edu/content/38/1/1ā€¦ 3/
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Hey all, let us have a look at some basics of optics and light science today! #phdchat #Physics #optics
Let us look at some common objects that can be used to understand the nature of light rays. This includes mirrors and lenses. #phdchat #physics #optics
Light travels in a straight line. It is the most fundamental property of light. An obstruction on the path may only change its direction, else it travels in a straight line. #phdchat #optics #light
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In 2013 Timothy Koeth of @UofMaryland received a metal cube with a note: ā€œTaken from the reactor that Hitler tried to build. Gift of Ninninger.ā€ The story of that uranium cube, by Koeth and Miriam Hiebert, is in the May issue of PT doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4ā€¦ (thread) Uranium cube given to Timot...
@UofMaryland The cube is one of 664 that, during World War II, were strung together to form a ā€œchandelierā€ that was to comprise the core of a nuclear reactor in Haigerloch, Germany. The leader of that experiment: Werner Heisenberg Werner Heisenberg
@UofMaryland In 1944 a group of American soldiers and scientistsā€”the Alsos teamā€”joined the front lines in Europe to gather information on the German nuclear program. In April 1945 they found Heisenbergā€™s lab, its entrance underneath a castle Location of Heisenbergā€™s nu...
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