"The classical example of an abandoned timeline is the Glorious Atomic Future, as described in the 1957 Disney cartoon Our Friend the Atom."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkwadgJORFM #histtech
Disneyland - Our Friend the Atom (1957)

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Suave Morbida (@maitre-poulard.bsky.social)

-chatgpt, je cherche à conjuguer mon amour du ferroviaire et ma haine des transports collectifs... -il te faut chourer la draisienne de la cité du train de Mulhouse. Si tu veux, je peux te prévoir un itinéraire ferroviaire retour jusqu'à Toulouse. C'est assez facile — même si ce sera long !

Bluesky Social
Georg Agricola, author of De re Metallica, was born 24 March 1494 #histsci #histtech
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/renaissance-heavy-metal/
Renaissance Heavy Metal

One of the most fascinating and spectacularly illustrated Renaissance books on science and technology is De re metallica by Georgius Agricola (1494–1555). Translated into English the author’s name …

The Renaissance Mathematicus

RE: https://mastodon.world/@BibPortRoyal/116279435089636602

Commerçant, moraliste, mathématicien, philosophe, physicien, inventeur & mécanicien, et même entrepreneur de transports en commun !
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrosse_%C3%A0_cinq_sols #histsci #histtech

Blaise Pascal dans ses oeuvres

Charged Words - Futility Closet

Electrical terms that Benjamin Franklin appears to have been the first to use, at least in print in English: armature battery brush charged charging condense conductor discharge electrical fire electrical shock electrician electrified electrify electrized Leyden bottle minus (negative or negatively) negatively non-conducting non-conductor non-electric plus (positive or positively) stroke (electric shock) uncharged This list is from Carl Van Doren’s 1938 biography. “Though he never lost sight of what was being done in electricity during his whole lifetime, he was perfectly willing to have his contributions to it absorbed in the enlarging science. They were absorbed, and it is now...

Futility Closet
The fantasy (and hubris) of technological objects when they are in fact envirotechical things #histtech #envhist #envirotech

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cpmjppob3kswdrpr4oeo4cof/post/3mh3m2qyruk2z
Thinking about Joel Tarr's classic book, The Search for the Ultimate Sink. And the power of metaphors: sink vs. "crematorium" for satellites. #envhist #histtech

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f3jxtgz7tnwvzkpgzb6wsqqj/post/3mgu7vjfkcc2y
Les étoiles artificielles sont moins funky que leur nom pourrait le laisser penser...
#histsci #histtech
https://colluniv.sorbonne-universite.fr/les_yeux_dans_les_etoiles/