Showing posts with label Professional Deformations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Professional Deformations. Show all posts
Saturday, July 16, 2022

A Technical, But Not At All Technological, Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1952: Pound Sterling But Also Energy

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  That was weird. So much for more talk about the Comet this week! (After a planned week off from work collapsed due to labour churn, befor...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1950: Jetliner Dreams

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  Early jets tended to lack a bit of oomph coming off the runway. I've covered the outline of the early passenger jet here before. The D...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

A Technological But Also Pure Science Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January, 1944, II: The Secret Life of Stars

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I was not quite 19 when Ronald Reagan made his "Star Wars" speech on 23 March 1983, perfectly prepared by far too much libert...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1949: I Heard An Owl

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That was earnest. I've been fascinated by Vice-Admiral (E) Sir John Kingcome (1890--1950) since I first encountered him in the ...
Saturday, May 4, 2019

Postblogging Technology, March 1949, I: When Roosevelt Bombed Pearl Harbour

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you so much for putting Mr. Sutter on the case! It turns out that th...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

A Technical Appendix to January, 1949, II: Machine Tools, 1943 and 1949

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According to Ibis World , the British machine tool industry had a projected revenue of £1.1bn, an annual growth rate for the period 2014--2...
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Saturday, October 6, 2018

A Technological Preface to Postblogging Technology, August 1948, I: Certain Grand Schemes of Improvement

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For reasons having to do with layout and marketing, customers have difficulty finding the "breakfast aisle" at the store at ...
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Saturday, February 17, 2018

A Meta-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1947: Capital Cuts and Lost Triumphs

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Pivot to video! There are better renditions of Jerusalem on the web, but the Flying Circus crowd are amazingly good. . . . And:   ...
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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Postblogging Technology, October 1947, I: The Farmer Feeds Them All

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R_. C_. Vancouver, Canada Dearest Uncle: You write to ask how I am settling in here in the Tall Trees, and to inquire after my f...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Nimrod Was The First Of Those Who Were Mighty On the Earth: The 77mm HV, Technological Progress, And the 1940 Counterfactual

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History is, as I never tire of saying, a floating referent. It's never entirely clear where to start, and, in the case of a counterfa...
Friday, January 27, 2017

The Fall of Rome, VII: Bread, Circusses

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Those are some happy elephants, because Tirupati deluxe bran is the best bran.  iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus,...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

A Crowning Glory of a Technical Appendix: Sanford-Humoller, Hand Looms and Min Chueh Chang

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Since Halloween has been held over an extra week-and-a-half this year, how about something scary?  Boo! It's a strong wo...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Nimrod Was a Mighty Hunter: The 1940 Land Warfare Counterfactual

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The substance of this counterfactual is pretty simple. If I adopt one simple rule: that the BEF is equipped with standard 1945-era equipmen...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Shadow Pasts: Another Anti-Correllian 1940 With Meditations on the Debacle

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"Posterity will hear of these Battles ," said the most unfortunate Flight title ever. The British Air Force in France, ...
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Thursday, April 9, 2015

The Great Siege: PLUNDER, VARSITY, Gotterdamerung

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OPERATION PLUNDER ; OPERATION VARSITY ; The Twilight of the Gods. Three things, naturally linked. Except that PLUNDER and VARSITY...
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Monday, March 9, 2015

The Flowers of Edo: The Firebombing of Tokyo, Franklin and the R-3350

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The seventieth anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo comes with the first darkness of March 10th, and the burning of Franklin not for ano...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

The Siege: Cold Ashes

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From childhood, I remember some ancient bit of literary British domestic detail from that decade when the whole country, as I understood ...
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Monday, September 22, 2014

Arnhem:To Make Free On the Land

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The title announces Arnhem, the Dutch city where, seventy years ago today, the "Red Devils" of the 1st Airborne Division is slowl...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Kohima: Boulders Lush with Moss

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The mighty son of Brahama is not to be tamed. The Brahamaputra does not get the respect it deserves. Like Rhine, Adige and Danube...
Monday, January 6, 2014

The Fall of France, XI (And Books That I Have Read): The Foresight War

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Look! It's a postcard image. Probably of a different Agneaux than the one in the "Norman Switzerland," but think of it as s...