Showing posts with label Technical Appendix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technical Appendix. Show all posts
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Draining Lake Copais: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1955, I With Bonus LBA Collapse

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 Edit: A bit quick with this one.  Responding to a 29 November, 1952 article in The Economist putting forward    "rather pessimistic pr...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Philco, Roger: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955

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  Not to be indelicate, but what the fuck happened?  As Philco ("Philadelphia Electric Company") launches the marketing campaign f...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pentomic: A Technical But Actually Sociological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955, I

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  Detail of 1779 chorographical map of New York (including chorographical details of adjacent parts of New Jersey but evidently not those of...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

U-Bomb: A Technical Prologue to Postblogging Technology, March 1955, II

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 Yeah, well, I was tired yesterday and I needed to do some bike training (mainly wearing calluses into my tender tootsie) ahead of my summer...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

UB.109T: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1955

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  So my boss is on his annual pilgrimage to the Old Continent to show everybody that he's a big shot in Canada, and we're training y...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Fireflash and Sparrow: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1955

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  This post is about the contemporary British Fireflash and American Sparrow beam-riding air-to-air missiles, so of course there is a perfec...
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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...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

International Geophysical Year: A Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1954

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  Last seen around here playing Calamity James as an adorable autist, Doris Day sings "Que Sera, Sera," an incomprehensibly popula...
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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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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Aswan and Wittfogel: A Technological and History of Technology Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1954

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Britannica. Which lifted it from Shutterstock, how the mighty have fallen, etc.  The Aswan high dam is one of the biggest dams in the worl...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1954: Microelectronics and Music

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  "Micro" indeed. The screencap is the first size comparison for the proximity fuze I've ever seen, which is why I took the sc...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954, II: Just You Wait

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  Surely I'm not the only person who hears " [Henry] Wiggin Works " and thinks of My Fair Lady, the 1964 film adaptation of th...
Friday, September 20, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, May 1954: Transatlantic Conversation, Hurrah!

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  This is actually going back a bit, but Mossad has done a naughty telephone thing this week, and while Teleanswerphone was operating a page...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1954: Project Tinkertoy

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  Scraped from an ad: https://snapklik.com/en-ca/product/tinkertoy-30-model-200-piece-super-building-set-preschool-learning-educational-toy-...
Friday, July 19, 2024

A Technological Appendx to Postblogging Technology, March 1954: Noise About the Type 2001

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  For me, there's something infinitely cosy about the first generation of professors at western Canadian universities. I've lived mo...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1954, II: Revisiting the Nuclear Submarine Question

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  The story here is that the United Kingdom is a rich, first world country and a Great Power. It fought the Second World War in alliance wit...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January 1954: Dieselpunk

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  Did anyone else reading this frequent Young and Bloor in the early Nineties? Remember the giant poster of Pamela Anderson as Barbed Wire ?...
Friday, April 19, 2024

A Technological and Nimrodian Appendix to Postblogging Technology, Fall 1953: Delta Dawn

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 There was something about " Delta Dawn ," an earworm of my childhood (written by Larry Collins and Alex Harvey, as performed byTa...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

A Socio-Technological Preface to Postblogging Technology, Decemer 1953: The Louche Years

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I started the first installment of December technological postblogging yesterday before deciding that I was a bit too spent from the work we...