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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 š§µ! (1/8) #histSTM #STS
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 š§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¦
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)
š„³Publication day for #UndergroundMathematics! Thanks to everyone involvedā¤ļø
Hereās a shortš§µto its main argument: How did practical mathematics and a culture of accuracy developed in EM Europe? Rationality wasnāt just about scholars, it included craftsmen and artisans too!
Hereās a shortš§µto its main argument: How did practical mathematics and a culture of accuracy developed in EM Europe? Rationality wasnāt 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 āThe Measurersā (see Jim Bennettās 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 āthe 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?
Today a š§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 minerās proverb said that āno 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 āAugenscheinā (visual inspection) was decisive. Things began to change bc rulers wanted to monitor their underground riches at distance
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.
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!
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 āWorking 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
Link: muse.jhu.edu/article/868047
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!
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
muse.jhu.edu/article/859717
A historianās 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? š§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.
š· AIP ESVA/NARA
š· AIP ESVA/NARA
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
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¦
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/
In @nursingclio:
nursingclio.org/2020/12/08/redā¦ 2/
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 belowš
#socialhistory #culturalhistory #twitterstorians @OUPHistory
#socialhistory #culturalhistory #twitterstorians @OUPHistory
1/ " Late Antiquity: The Age of Crowds?"
academic.oup.com/past/article/2ā¦ by @jcmo1977 @usponline
#antiquity #socialhistory #urbanhistory #medievaltwitter #Twitterstorians
academic.oup.com/past/article/2ā¦ by @jcmo1977 @usponline
#antiquity #socialhistory #urbanhistory #medievaltwitter #Twitterstorians
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
#imphist #globalhist #earlymodern #socialhistory #culturalhistory #Twitterstorians
Today is the start of #SHW2020! Each day this week, I'll be tweeting about Britain's long, tempestuous and ever-so-slightly bonkers loveāhate relationship with its #sexualhealth.
Darlings, brace yourselves. š #SHW20
Darlings, brace yourselves. š #SHW20
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
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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For more on #DisHist and good dogs in medieval illustrations, you can read @drkmurchās blog here: kristamurchison.com/medieval-guideā¦
And @JudeSealās @ExploreWellcome piece here: wellcomecollection.org/articles/XszQJā¦
#NationalDogDay #envhist #animalhistories
For more on #DisHist and good dogs in medieval illustrations, you can read @drkmurchās blog here: kristamurchison.com/medieval-guideā¦
And @JudeSealās @ExploreWellcome piece here: wellcomecollection.org/articles/XszQJā¦
#NationalDogDay #envhist #animalhistories
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...
Here is a slightly random thread of things I attended and enjoyed...
(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
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
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.
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.
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
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¦
lhncbc.nlm.nih.gov/project/profilā¦
@skidwayy is here now to talk about āComplexities 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
@skidwayy @AligarhMuslimUn 2/12 In 1844 he published an Urdu translation of a Persian text titled āTashil 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).../
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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).../
2.
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
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
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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
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
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¦
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
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!)
#histSTM (1/17)
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!)
#histSTM (1/17)
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.
(2/17)
Yes, Tesla is there too (more on him in a moment), but the system-builders (cf. Hughes) are front and center.
(2/17)
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.
(3/17)
(3/17)
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/
In 2013 Timothy Koeth of @UofMaryland received a metal cube with a note: āTaken 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)
@UofMaryland The cube is one of 664 that, during World War II, were strung together to form a āchandelierā that was to comprise the core of a nuclear reactor in Haigerloch, Germany. The leader of that experiment: Werner Heisenberg
@UofMaryland In 1944 a group of American soldiers and scientistsāthe Alsos teamājoined the front lines in Europe to gather information on the German nuclear program. In April 1945 they found Heisenbergās lab, its entrance underneath a castle
