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Katherine Chipman

Smithsonian: Museums - 0 views

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    Here is a link where you can explore the Smithsonian a little more. The variety of the museums, collections, exhibits, etc. is amazing!
Danny Patterson

Interactive computer history museum - 0 views

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    This is a fun interactive site dedicated to the work performed by Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first computer programmers in the world.
Kristi Koerner

SCORE: The Great War - Teachers' Guide - 0 views

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    A virtual "museum" for WWI. Really good links and explanations!
Katherine Chipman

Take Cover: Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin ... - 0 views

  • By the late 1950s, officials of the Eisenhower administration, after having seen the results of numerous atomic bomb tests, had a fairly realistic idea of how difficult it would be to survive a nuclear bomb blast. They continued, however, to disseminate somewhat dubious survival information, primarily to give the American public a sense of hope and control over their own lives. They also believed that a public confident of surviving an atomic war would support the federal government's decision to increase its own atomic arsenal, even though its existence could provoke a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
Gideon Burton

Getty, Liberation of Masterpieces as Open Content by $techgnotic on deviantART - 0 views

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    A bold move by an important institution to open up its content.
Katherine Chipman

The Engines - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

  • Difference engines are strictly calculators. They crunch numbers the only way they know how - by repeated addition according to the method of finite differences. They cannot be used for general arithmetical calculation. The Analytical Engine is much more than a calculator and marks the progression from the mechanized arithmetic of calculation to fully-fledged general-purpose computation.
  • Physical Legacy Aside from a few partially complete mechanical assemblies and test models of small working sections, none of Babbage's designs was physically realized in its entirety in his lifetime. The major assembly he did complete was one-seventh of Difference Engine No. 1, a demonstration piece consisting of about 2,000 parts assembled in 1832. This works impeccably to this day and is the first successful automatic calculating device to embody mathematical rule in mechanism. A small experimental piece of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time of Babbage's death in 1871. Many of the small experimental assemblies survived, as does a comprehensive archive of his drawings and notebooks. The designs for Babbage's vast mechanical computing engines rank as one of the startling intellectual achievements of the 19th century. It is only in recent decades that his work has been studied in detail and that the extent of what he accomplished becomes increasingly evident.
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    Great explanation of the difference between difference engines and analytical engines.
Katherine Chipman

Ada Lovelace - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

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    interesting...it talks about Babbage, but it also talks about Ada Lovelace and shows how women were involved in the mathematics and pre-computer world of their time.
Katherine Chipman

George Boole - 0 views

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    Brief biography of George Boole.
Katherine Chipman

Overview - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

  • Babbage embarked on an ambitious venture to design and build mechanical calculating engines to eliminate the risk of human error in the production of printed tables. The 'unerring certainty of machinery' would solve the problem of human fallibility. His work on the engines led him from mechanized arithmetic to the entirely new realm of automatic computation. Tabular errors provided a practical stimulus. But this was not his only motive. He also saw his engines as a new technology of mathematics.
  • It was not only the grindingly tedious labor of verifying a sea of figures that exasperated Babbage, but their daunting unreliability. Engineering, astronomy, construction, finance, banking and insurance depended on printed tables for calculation. Ships navigating by the stars relied on printed tables to find their position at sea. The stakes were high. Capital and life were thought to be at risk.
Katherine Chipman

Smithsonian: History - 0 views

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    Reading about the Crystal Palace made me think about our museums today. Here is a brief history of the Smithsonian.
Jeffrey Chen

Grant for evolution museum - 0 views

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    Cool technology helps us better understand the science of evolution
David Potter

The World On the Brink: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis - 0 views

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    This web page comes from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. It gives a brief overview of the Cuban missile crisis
Megan Stern

MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art - 0 views

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    Explore some of the Modernist art of our time, from sketches to photography to kitchens.
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