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Mad about Science: 1950s technology » Sandpoint Reader https://www.byteseu.com/2017859/ #1950sTechnology #AntiCommunism #BrendenBobby #HistoryOfIntegratedCircuit #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfVideoTape #LostInThe50s #MadAboutScience:1950sTechnology #MicrowaveOven #misogyny #PercySpencer #RacialSegregation #Radarange #RaytheonLaboratories #Science #ScienceOfIntegratedCircuit #ScienceOfTechnology #ScienceOfVideoTape #TheIntegratedCircuit #VideoTape #WorldWarTwo #wwii #ZachHagadone

✍️ The call for papers for the 8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, which is being co-organised by the #PHONLAB team, closes on 15 May.

This year’s edition places particular emphasis on #ExperimentalPhonetics as an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, medical sciences and engineering, which underwent rapid development throughout the 20th century.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/8th-iwhscr/

#IWHSCR #Histodons #CFP #Communication #Speech #HistoryOfTechnology

✍️ The call for papers for the 8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, which is being co-organised by the #PHONLAB team, closes on 15 May.

This year’s edition places particular emphasis on #ExperimentalPhonetics as an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, medical sciences and engineering, which underwent rapid development throughout the 20th century.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/8th-iwhscr/

#IWHSCR #Histodons #CFP #Communication #Speech #HistoryOfTechnology

✍️ The call for papers for the 8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, which is being co-organised by the #PHONLAB team, closes on 15 May.

This year’s edition places particular emphasis on #ExperimentalPhonetics as an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, medical sciences and engineering, which underwent rapid development throughout the 20th century.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/8th-iwhscr/

#IWHSCR #Histodons #CFP #Communication #Speech #HistoryOfTechnology

✍️ The call for papers for the 8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, which is being co-organised by the #PHONLAB team, closes on 15 May.

This year’s edition places particular emphasis on #ExperimentalPhonetics as an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, medical sciences and engineering, which underwent rapid development throughout the 20th century.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/8th-iwhscr/

#IWHSCR #Histodons #CFP #Communication #Speech #HistoryOfTechnology

✍️ The call for papers for the 8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, which is being co-organised by the #PHONLAB team, closes on 15 May.

This year’s edition places particular emphasis on #ExperimentalPhonetics as an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, medical sciences and engineering, which underwent rapid development throughout the 20th century.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/8th-iwhscr/

#IWHSCR #Histodons #CFP #Communication #Speech #HistoryOfTechnology

✍️ The 8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research is being co-organised by the #PHONLAB team, with a special emphasis on #ExperimentalPhonetics as an emerging field throughout the 20th century.

📅 The deadline for manuscript submissions is 15 May

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/8th-iwhscr/

#IWHSCR #Histodons #CFP #Communication #Speech #HistoryOfTechnology

Binary code powers modern technology, yet its conceptual roots may trace back to the ancient I Ching. Did early philosophy unknowingly shape computing, or are we connecting patterns across time?
#BinaryCode #HistoryOfTechnology #IChing #Mathematics #AncientKnowledge
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/creation-binary-code-inspired-5000-year-old-text-001468

Binary code powers modern technology, yet its conceptual roots may trace back to the ancient I Ching. Did early philosophy unknowingly shape computing, or are we connecting patterns across time?
#BinaryCode #HistoryOfTechnology #IChing #Mathematics #AncientKnowledge
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/creation-binary-code-inspired-5000-year-old-text-001468

Binary code powers modern technology, yet its conceptual roots may trace back to the ancient I Ching. Did early philosophy unknowingly shape computing, or are we connecting patterns across time?
#BinaryCode #HistoryOfTechnology #IChing #Mathematics #AncientKnowledge
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/creation-binary-code-inspired-5000-year-old-text-001468

Binary code powers modern technology, yet its conceptual roots may trace back to the ancient I Ching. Did early philosophy unknowingly shape computing, or are we connecting patterns across time?
#BinaryCode #HistoryOfTechnology #IChing #Mathematics #AncientKnowledge
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-general/creation-binary-code-inspired-5000-year-old-text-001468

Absolutely genius : a brilliant experiment recreating the original experiment of Bell for the first telephone communication, based directly on Bell’s 1876 writings and using period-appropriate tools. It’s fascinating to see how the experimentation follows Bell’s own notes and reveals the progression of the scientist’s thinking step by step in his notebooks. Bravo to the @connections for this formidable initiative. Watch the video — super cool! 👌 Can’t wait for part 2 with the skin-tension system in the second device presented! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6irxbKpKzo #HistoryOfTechnology #HistoryOfScience
#ExperimentalScience #RetroTech #TechHeritage #SciComm #Engineering

I wasn't all that impressed by last year's exhibition on the history of #radio at the Weston Library #Oxford, but now I stumbled across the book and quite liked it: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/01/on-origins-of-radio.html #bookreview #historyOfTechnology #media #sociology

🎉Gleich geht es los!

Seit April 2021 organisiert die Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte während der Semesterzeiten (Mitte April bis Mitte Juli und Mitte Oktober bis Mitte Februar) alle zwei Wochen freitags von 12-13 Uhr ein Online-Kolloquium. Darin werden Forschungs- und Publikationsprojekte, Ausstellungen, Studiengänge, Lehrkonzepte oder Tagungspläne zur Technikgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum vorgestellt und gemeinsam diskutiert. Die Präsentationen können problemorientiert sein und können auch populärwissenschaftliche Anliegen behandeln.

Im Vordergrund steht der Werkstatt-Charakter: Auf einen kurzen Input (20 Min.) folgt eine offene Diskussion unter den Zuhörenden und darauf eine dialogische Reaktion der vortragenden Person.

👉INFOS zur Anmeldung gibt es auf www.geschichte.kit.edu

#ukraine #historyoftechnology

🗣 #Throwback to the #EuropeanResearchersNight: 'Sound, Science, and Memory: Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory'.

Ângela Salgueiro and Quintino Lopes brought the #PHONLAB project to the streets of Évora, raising awareness about #ExperimentalPhonetics and its history.

#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #Évora #NEI2025 #SciComm #HistoryInThePublicSphere #ArmandoDeLacerda #FonéticaExperimental #HistóriaNaEsferaPública

🆕 Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition. For the IHC researcher, ‘this invitation is a manifestation of the international projection and recognition of the research produced by the IHC.’

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-erc-reviewer/

#Histodons #History #ERC #ERC_funded #AcademicLife #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #VidaAcadémica #História #EuropeanResearchCouncil

🆕 Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition. For the IHC researcher, ‘this invitation is a manifestation of the international projection and recognition of the research produced by the IHC.’

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-erc-reviewer/

#Histodons #History #ERC #ERC_funded #AcademicLife #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #VidaAcadémica #História #EuropeanResearchCouncil

🆕 Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition. For the IHC researcher, ‘this invitation is a manifestation of the international projection and recognition of the research produced by the IHC.’

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-erc-reviewer/

#Histodons #History #ERC #ERC_funded #AcademicLife #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #VidaAcadémica #História #EuropeanResearchCouncil

🆕 Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition. For the IHC researcher, ‘this invitation is a manifestation of the international projection and recognition of the research produced by the IHC.’

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-erc-reviewer/

#Histodons #History #ERC #ERC_funded #AcademicLife #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #VidaAcadémica #História #EuropeanResearchCouncil

🆕 Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition. For the IHC researcher, ‘this invitation is a manifestation of the international projection and recognition of the research produced by the IHC.’

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/quintino-lopes-erc-reviewer/

#Histodons #History #ERC #ERC_funded #AcademicLife #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #VidaAcadémica #História #EuropeanResearchCouncil

ZDNet: MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation – now you can download it for free. “For its day, MS-BASIC 1.1 was quite sophisticated. It included improved garbage collection. (When you only had 4K of RAM, you needed every byte your program could get its hands on.) It also supported FOR loop variables, which were a big improvement over BASIC’s infamous GOTO command.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/05/zdnet-ms-basic-1-1-introduced-programming-to-a-generation-now-you-can-download-it-for-free/

Between the wheels

Hello
#HistoryOfTechnology #WheelOrigin #InventionOfTheWheel #Archaeology #ComputationalDesign #NeolithicInnovation #EngineeringHistory #CarpathianMines #RoyalSocietyOpenScience

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=P2I3BJeI19U

#TheMeatrix
¿:https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/domestic-terrorism-and-spectacularized-violence-in-trumps-warfare-state/ #warpigs // #pigsonthewing || #spiritedaway

#Rush __
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cj1eUnNOvpY

#mixedmetaphors

#PlantOils

#ChaliceAndTheBlade #RealWealthOfNations

Hier gibt es alle wichtigen, abgesicherten Infos zur #FossaCarolina . #technikgeschichte #mittelalter #ingenieurwesen #geschichte #technology #historyoftechnology #EarlyMedievalArchaeology

📼 The History of the Screwdriver (A free, 16-minute video from 2019)

Tags: #HistoryOfTechnology #Things #Canada
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/screw_history-guy

I'm finding D. F. Parkhill's 1966 book "The Challenge of the Computer Utility"[0] to be endlessly fascinating. It provides quite a detailed snapshot of the state of computer development. It was written at the tail end of the "Patent wars of 1962–1966"[1], yet there's no mention of integrated circuits, nor "Micrologic" (an early name for ICs).

In the discussion on memory technology, the book contains several tables as two-page spreads, which are awkward to assimilate when reading the book as a PDF on a small screen. I've included the relevant pages here as two-up images for my own benefit as much as yours!

The information summarised in the tables is fascinating. In the table "Classification of Memories by Function", much of the language is familiar to a modern reader (compared to, say 1940s discussions of 'organs'); CPU registers, RAM and persistent storage are recognisable:

Storage register: Usually a one- or two-word memory used for the temporary storage of some quantity before it is transferred to another memory or circuit; i.e., accumulator register, multiplicand register, index register, etc.

Internal working memory: The main working memory of the computer, in which intermediate results and instructions are stored.

Mass data memory: A high-capacity storage system, external to but under the control of the computer, used for the storage of bulk data such as tables, files, and sub-routines.

...yet the "Classification of Memories by Operating Characteristics" reflect mid-1960s (or older) technologies:

Regenerative: A memory whose contents gradually vanish unless they are periodically regenerated, e.g., a Williams tube.

Modern RAM is of this type!

Read only: A memory whose contents can be changed, if at all, only by off-line human intervention, usually involving rewiring, the removal or insertion of plugs or the punching of holes, e.g., a card capacitor store, diode matrix, etc.

"Memory Devices" is fascinating. Here's just one row:

Type: Magnetic core
Physical Principle: remanent magnetization on small cores of square hysteresis-loop
ferrite material
Application: high-speed internal memory, registers, and buffers
Status: standard memory for majority of all computers in all price classes
Remarks: in addition to the normal coincident-current destructive readout single-core/bit systems embodiments there are also multiaperture core systems such as Biax and the transfluxor systems, and multiple-core/bit systems also wired-core read-only systems

Biax? Transfluxor systems?

...and what on earth was "Magnetic rod memory"?

Type: Magnetic rod
Physical Principle: magnetic coupling via removable ferrite rods between loops in a
woven mesh
Application: read-only very high-speed auxiliary internal store
Status: in use on Univ. of Manchester MUSE, Ferranti ATLAS computers, and several Italian machines
Remarks: retains advantages of wired-core memories but permits easy modification. Highest speed operating memory of comparable size to date, (0.15 microsecond access time, 8192 words, 48 bits)

...sounds promising! Why haven't I heard of this technology? Check Wikipedia[2]:

Rod memory is one of the many variations on magnetic core memory that attempts to lower costs by automating its manufacturing. [...] Like many similar concepts [...] rod memory was competing for the role of taking over from core when the first semiconductor memory systems wiped out the entire market in 1970.

Oof.

I'm finding it very much worthwhile to read not only older histories of computing, but also old books that provide a survey of the state of the art at a given time.

[0] https://archive.org/details/challengeofcompu0000park
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_the_integrated_circuit#Patent_wars_of_1962–1966
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_memory

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #historyoftechnology

There's a new issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology. It includes the themtic dossier "Towards a global history of eclipses_ Entanglements of disciplines, actors, and practices".

🔓 Available on #OpenAccess: https://sciendo.com/issue/HOST/19/1

@histodons
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#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #SciHist #HistoryOfTechnology #TechHist #Astronomy #HistoryOfAstronomy #Eclipses #TotalSolarEclipse #SanskritAstralSciences

📰 12,000-Year-Old Spindle Whorls and the Innovation of Wheeled Rotational Technologies (A ✨NEW✨, free, 22-page article)

Tags: #HistoryOfTechnology #Prehistory #Things
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/12000-year-old-spindle-whorls_yashuv-talia-et-al

What Can the History of Data Tell Us About the Future of AI?

“Data is the fossil fuel of AI.” – Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI “The…
#NewsBeep #News #Computing #ArtificialIntelligence #Data #DeepDives #EditorsPick #History #HistoryOfTechnology #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/11467/

Mind blown:

A history of simulation technology in the space program has yet to be written

Digital Apollo, David A. Mindell

https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/3182/Digital-ApolloHuman-and-Machine-in-Spaceflight

#Histodon #HistoryOfTechnology #Sociotechnical #Systems

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

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#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

The IHC and ICS are co-organising a talk by John Bosco Lourdusamy (IIT Madras) on the the entanglement of the past and present in the tea gardens of colonial Southern India with regard to the condition of labour.

📅 7 May at 11am.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/machines-tea-gardens/

@histodons
@histodon

#Histodons #ColonialHistory #India #Tea #Plantations #HistoryOfLabour #ColonialIndia #LabourExploitation #HistoryOfTechnology #Plantations #HistóriaColonial #ÍndiaColonial #Plantações #HistóriaDoTrabalho #Chá

Our beautiful campus awaits the study seekers for the Master’s #OpenDay at the #UTwente . I am looking forward to the bright young people considering to study #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology and #Society with us :) Oh, and this is literally just across my office… #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIEthics #STS #HistoryOfTechnology

Our beautiful campus awaits the study seekers for the Master’s #OpenDay at the #UTwente . I am looking forward to the bright young people considering to study #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology and #Society with us :) Oh, and this is literally just across my office… #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIEthics #STS #HistoryOfTechnology

Our beautiful campus awaits the study seekers for the Master’s #OpenDay at the #UTwente . I am looking forward to the bright young people considering to study #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology and #Society with us :) Oh, and this is literally just across my office… #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIEthics #STS #HistoryOfTechnology

Our beautiful campus awaits the study seekers for the Master’s #OpenDay at the #UTwente . I am looking forward to the bright young people considering to study #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology and #Society with us :) Oh, and this is literally just across my office… #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIEthics #STS #HistoryOfTechnology

Our beautiful campus awaits the study seekers for the Master’s #OpenDay at the #UTwente . I am looking forward to the bright young people considering to study #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology and #Society with us :) Oh, and this is literally just across my office… #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIEthics #STS #HistoryOfTechnology

O concurso para Investigador/a Auxiliar na área de História da Ciência, Tecnologia, Património Científico e Ambiente (séculos XIX e XX), aberto pela Universidade de Évora, encerra a 20 de Março.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/ia-historia-ue-2025/

#Histodons #HistoryJobs #EmpregoCientífico #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #HistóriaAmbiental #HistóriaContemporânea #ModernHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #EnvironmentalHistory #MastoJobs

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS , please point them to #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society. At the Open Day, they learn about our dedicated tracks on #TechnologyAndValues (in collaboration with 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology), #AI , and #Sustainability. https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/study-choice-calendar/master-open-day/#

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS , please point them to #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society. At the Open Day, they learn about our dedicated tracks on #TechnologyAndValues (in collaboration with 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology), #AI , and #Sustainability. https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/study-choice-calendar/master-open-day/#

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS , please point them to #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society. At the Open Day, they learn about our dedicated tracks on #TechnologyAndValues (in collaboration with 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology), #AI , and #Sustainability. https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/study-choice-calendar/master-open-day/#

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS , please point them to #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society. At the Open Day, they learn about our dedicated tracks on #TechnologyAndValues (in collaboration with 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology), #AI , and #Sustainability. https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/study-choice-calendar/master-open-day/#

If you are aware of curious and critical students looking for a unique interdisciplinary #MSc Programme which combines #PhilosophyOfTechnology, #PhilosophyOfScience, #EthicsOfTechnology, #HistoryOfTechnology and #STS , please point them to #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology , and #Society. At the Open Day, they learn about our dedicated tracks on #TechnologyAndValues (in collaboration with 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology), #AI , and #Sustainability. https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/study-choice-calendar/master-open-day/#

✍️ The editors of #HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology have opened a call for a thematic dossier to be published in 2026.
📅 The deadline is 31 March 2025
👉 https://tinyurl.com/yaf5ymym

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#Histodons #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #CallForPapers #SciHist #TechHist #STM #HistoryOfMedicin #MedHist #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #HistóriaDaMedicina #OpenAccess #AcessoAberto

A Universidade de Évora abriu um concurso para Investigador/a Auxiliar para a área de História da Ciência, Tecnologia, Património Científico e Ambiente (séculos XIX e XX).

As candidaturas decorrem até 20 de Março.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/ia-historia-ue-2025/

#Histodons #HistoryJobs #EmpregoCientífico #HistóriaDaCiência #HistóriaDaTecnologia #HistóriaAmbiental #HistóriaContemporânea #ModernHistory #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfTechnology #EnvironmentalHistory #MastoJobs

Any #HistoryOfTechnology folks out there?
I’m trying to learn more about the history of electrification (aka the widespread adoption of electricity or construction of infrastructure outside of, like, funky inventors-in-labs types of things).
In my mind, the early demonstrations of public usefulness were for electric lighting, but I am learning that the telegraph may have even earlier driven infrastructure investments.
Do you know more? Or have recommendations on where to look? I’d love to learn!

The Myth of Mills: Bridging Antiquity and Medieval Innovation https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/the-myth-of-mills-bridging-antiquity-and-medieval-innovation/ #HistoryofTechnology #watermills #MiddleAges

🗣 The call for papers for the Joint International Workshop "Global Infrastructures: Aesthetic Power and Affective Networks in the (Post-)colonial Present", which we will host in Lisbon on 28 November, is ongoing until 30 September.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/global-infrastructures-2024/

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#Histodons #CFP #HistoryOfTechnology #Infrastructures #Aesthetics #Globalization #PostColonialism #Modernity #Infrastruturas #Modernidade #Estéticas #PósColonialismo