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In pop culture, computing & programming are often depicted with “tech bros.” But the first computer programmer was a brilliant woman.
Augusta “Ada” Lovelace was born in 1815. Her notes include an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine & she envisioned that computers could go beyond calculations. Lovelace described “how individuals & society relate to technology as a collaborative tool.”
Lovelace passed away in 1852 at just 36. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t… #HistoryRemix #history #science
Ada Lovelace, the First Tech Visionary
Lovelace, known as the earliest computer programmer, has been recognized annually on October 15th to highlight the contributions of women to math and …Betsy Morais (The New Yorker)
John Muir is hailed as an environmental hero. He wrote & advocated to protect the “wilderness,” including Yosemite. But the land, Ahwahnee, was already named & loved by the Ahwahneechee people.
Muir wasn’t interested in the original inhabitants. He was a pioneer in the environmental movement, but he was also racist & friends with prominent eugenicists. His complicated legacy is just one of many examples in American #history when environmental protections were at odds with environmental justice.
"We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, 'It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.' Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes."
- Mister Rogers vox.com/culture/2017/5/23/1568… #history #television
Celebrating Mister Rogers: Google Doodle honoree always said the right thing
51 years ago — on September 21, 1967 — Fred Rogers taped the very first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Here are 9 perfect quotes from the beloved TV host on love, peace, and why you're special.Emily St. James (Vox)
Over 50,000 years ago, our ancient cousin, Homo floresiensis, lived on the Indonesian island Flores. Popularly referred to as "hobbits,” adults were ~3 ft tall.
Soaring the skies above them, a giant carnivorous bird, Leptoptilos robustus, measured 6 ft tall with a long, sharp beak.
Did they interact? Newspapers around the world have run sensationalized headlines claiming the #birds ate hobbit babies, but scientists just don’t know. Yet. nationalgeographic.com/science… #science #history #SharedPlanet
Legend of the Killer Storks
What makes a monster? Godzilla, Medusa, Frankenstein’s monster, Fáfnir, the Alien: All these fictional fiends have disparate origins, attributes, and motivations, but they are tied together by their disregard for what we perceive as the natural order…Riley Black (National Geographic)
In 1952, Katherine Johnson heard there were open positions at the all-Black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (later NASA) Langley laboratory.
With far too many accomplishments to list, her work was fundamental to marking a turning point in the space race with the Soviet Union. nasa.gov/content/katherine-joh…
In 2015, President Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She passed away in 2020 at 101. #history #space #HistoryRemix
Katherine Johnson Biography
NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.NASA
About 250M years ago, 90% of species on Earth died during the Permian extinction. All of that loss created a lot of vacant niches to fill.
And not long after, the first mammals, our ancestors, appeared.
I find it comforting to remember that life on this pale blue dot will be resilient - whether we’re part of it or not. #science #nature #history #SharedPlanet
Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science #HistoryRemix
Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?
Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.
But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.
Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women #HistoryRemix
Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in West Bengal (now India).
In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.
Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history #HistoryRemix
Dissertation sur la Pierre de la Mère des Dieux.
Par Camille Falconet, 1750.
archive.org/details/falconet_d…
Dissertation sur la Pierre de la Mère des Dieux : Camille Falconet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Dissertation sur la Pierre de la Mère des DieuxPar M. Falconet21 Avril 1750GithubInternet Archive
I've posted several times here but didn't do official #introductons post
I'm an unpublished #writer living in #Seattle #PNW who enjoys posting about #books (fiction, nonfiction, YA, adult, just about anything especially from diverse authors)
I make silly posts about live #sports of all kinds, unusual #history stories, jokes, animation, kdramas, gbbo, Top Chef, all sorts of things. I keep it relatively wholesome & try hard to avoid spoilers
#Reintroduction post, let's go!
🌳 I'm Sarah, I live on the edge of Epping Forest in London, UK with my partner & our cat Ditto.
📖 I'm interested in #writing & have had a few #scifi #fantasy & #horror short stories published recently.
📚 I love #comics (mostly #DC & indie) & occasionally do some colouring.
🎨 I like #painting #abstract #art & love seeing all your #mastoart!
🖖 I'm also interested in & sometimes toot / boost about #history #space #moss #trees #cptsd #trauma & #StarTrek
Die Meteoriten in Sammlungen, ihre Geschichte, Mineralogische und Chemische Beschaffenheit.
Meteorites in Collections, their History, Mineralogical and Chemical Composition.
By Dr. Otto Buchner. 1863.
German edition, Github: github.com/solaranamnesis/otto…
Archive: archive.org/details/buchner_me…
otto-buchner/full-text-german.md at main · solaranamnesis/otto-buchner
Public Domain works by Otto Christian Ludwig Buchner (1828 – 1897) - otto-buchner/full-text-german.md at main · solaranamnesis/otto-buchnerGitHub
Über Meteor-Cultus der Alten,
vorzüglich in Bezug auf Steine, die vom Himmel gefallen.
About the Meteor Cults of the Ancients, especially in relation to Stones that Fell from the Sky.
German edition:
archive.org/details/dalberg_me…
Über Meteor-Cultus der Alten : Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Über Meteor-Cultus der Alten,vorzüglich in Bezug auf Steine, die vom Himmel gefallen.Ein Beitrag zur Altertumskunde von Fr. v. Dalberg.Mit einer...Internet Archive
Blatantly original binding on this collection of The Bulletin from the first half of 1931. Very Art Deco.
"The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel" spacing.ca/toronto/2012/10/02/…
from 2012, but the great thing about history is that it never gets old
The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel - Spacing Toronto
EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of postcards hidden around the city for people to randomly find.Adam Bunch (Spacing Toronto)
Interesting.
"This article aims to summarize the background of well-known and not so well-known Soviet rocket engines, the history of their development, their main characteristics, and the rockets they flew on."
everydayastronaut.com/soviet-r…
#History #SovietUnion #Rockets #Engineering #Technology
Soviet Rocket Engines
Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.Mariia Kiseleva (Everyday Astronaut)
This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.
There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.
Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.
#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science
Otto Hahn's final piece of writing about meteorites (1882) was concerning two witnessed falls of gelatinous meteorites. Sticky with appearance like frogspawn. Quite curious! We need to preserve them ASAP when they land.
Report on Two Gelatinous Meteorite Falls by Dr. Otto Hahn in Reutlingen: github.com/solaranamnesis/jahr…
jahreshefte-des-vereins-fur-vaterlandische-naturkunde-in-wurttemberg/full-text-english.md at master · solaranamnesis/jahreshefte-des-vereins-fur-vaterlandische-naturkunde-in-wurttemberg
Public domain works from the Annual Bulletin of the Association for National Natural History in Württemberg - jahreshefte-des-vereins-fur-vaterlandische-naturkunde-in-wurttemberg/full-text-english....GitHub
Abandoned dual track train tunnel from 1907. Spotted along the West Penn rail trail.
#railtrails #railtrail #cycling #cyclingphotos #pa #pennsylvania #photography #tunnel #abandoned #train #rail #history
New editions of The Nummulosphere Part 3 and Part 4 have been published on Archive.org:
Part 3: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…
Part 4: archive.org/details/kirkpatric…
#nummulosphere #meteorite #science #history #ocean
The Nummulosphere Part 3: The Ocean Floor or Benthoplankton : Randolph Kirkpatrick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
[pt. 1] An account of the organic origin of so-called igneous rocks and of abyssal red clays.--pt. 2. The genesis of the igneous rocks and of meteorites...Internet Archive
This list of the earliest know use of maths terms is an amazing way to loose time finding old (but super interesting) papers to read thru! Stuff you may likely never come across otherwise!
For someone like myself who loves, but is less than proficient at, maths.... this is a treasure trove of older and more approachable technical papers! And if you are a maths wizard, well I'm sure you can appreciate it for the history and maybe add some obscure older papers to your offline archive! ;)
Link: Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics
#maths #math #mathematics #science #stem #numbers #smartereveryday #history