Showing posts with label Public Engagement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Public Engagement. Show all posts
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Postblogging Technology, January 1955: Phreaking Over Fallout

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R._C._., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: So, nothing much has changed in that I am back in glamorous London. (Joke!  Rose Dolore...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

Under the Ice: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1954

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  The British Greenland Expedition has been over since the summer, and since I'm not going to bother going through the archives, I'm...
Sunday, April 13, 2025

What Light? A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1954

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  Brazilla Carroll Reece was  born in 1889 in Butler, a town in the far  northeast of Tennessee that was inundated by the Tennessee Valley A...
Sunday, March 9, 2025

The Comet Inquiry: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1954

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  On 2 March 1954, Tudor I G-AGRI, belonging to a young Freddie Laker's Air Charter, Ltd, was flying 9500ft near Paris on a freight trip...
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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Postblogging Technology, November 1954: Buy Now, Pay Later!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Since James and I are a bit worried about our letters being intercepted, I will answer a...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Postblogging Technology, October 1954, II: The Miracle of Transistors

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We have had an exciting few weeks as various European diplomatic efforts and one America...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

The Fall of Rome, VI: Flying Canoes and Revolutionary Santas

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  There's nothing to discourage a guy from amateur FallofRomeism than the "Men think about Rome a lot" thing of a few years ba...
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Gathering the Bones, XXXI: Raven And The First Men

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  This morning I am thinking about Raven the trickster, creator and king. but I also travelled on the weekend and visited my world-travellin...
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Saturday, October 12, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954: Gormenghast

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  Just kidding. Today I'm talking about the pioneering nuclear power plant, Calder Hall, not Mervyn Peake's weird 1950 novel about a...
Friday, February 16, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1953: Transducer Days

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  With the very low key add for the IBM 650 ,  "the first mass--produced computer in the world,"we take another big step in the di...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Missing Plugs, Missing Rebuttals

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  Is that a bandwagon going by? Let me hop right on that thing!  I am going to go with the assumption that no-one wants to hear my potted hi...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Sweetness, Thorazine, and the Madness of Howard Hughes

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You will be pleased to hear that Reggie's paper went well, with none of the security...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

A Somewhat Technological and Completely Bananas Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1953: Fire!

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  Of course Celtic Women covered it.   Someone once said that J. H. Hexter would have been a better known historian if he hadn't been li...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

A Technological and Political Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1953 With No Public Engagement Whatsoever: Willow Run and Dien Bien Phu

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 Well, I might well be on strike next week, and I certainly have split single days off this week. And that can only mean one thing. A Techno...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Great Siege, I: Attlee Was Right

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  I added "The Great Siege" tag early in the life of this blog to organise the idea that Germany's strategic campaign against ...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1953 with Bonus Old Man Ranting: Fuel Cells

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  In February of 1953, Engineering published on titanium, a swing-wing jet prototype , gas turbine locomotives, a proton synchrotron, and nu...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1952: Jogging Stroller

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  Caroline Geoghegan Having long since covered Mr. Atle e's atom bomb, I definitely want to do a technological appendix for the month t...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1952, I: The Jersey Turnpike

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 So the original plan was to write Postblogging Technology, August 1952, II: Clever Subtitle, I Wish, this weekend. But then two things happ...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Postblogging Technology, July 1952: Lie a Coward

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R_. C_., The Mayflower, Washington Dear Father: It was so good to see you last night! Uhm, okay, if you ever read this, it will be months fr...
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Sunday, September 4, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: "John Bull Can Stand Many Things, But One Thing He Cannot Stand is 2%"

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  In this new age of inflation, two-and-a-half things for the week.   The first thing is the Bagehot quote. Is this really the secret spring...