History Repeats Itself, First as Tragedy, Second as Animated Gif
It's time for a second golden age of the stereoscope.… More »
Suzanne Fischer is a historian of science and technology. She serves as curator of technology at The Henry Ford.
It's time for a second golden age of the stereoscope.… More »
It may be hard to believe now, but in the 1920s people had to learn how to dial, much like we once learned how to text.… More »
Imagining a futuristic world can help us tease out the relationship between culture and technology.… More »
Nostalgic paintings of people in fields and factories put a shine on history's hard times.… More »
Rogue philosopher Ivan Illich's ideas and what they mean for the Internet age… More »
A group of undergraduates is unlocking the secrets of Roger Williams's idiosyncratic shorthand script.… More »
Culturally, we are obsessed with firsts, being able to pinpoint the date that a thing came into being. But what about lasts? Are there ever really lasts?… More »
Pointe shoes made the ballerinas of the New York City Ballet into technological artifacts, modern and indistinguishable "like IBM machines"… More »
Early conflicts about the meaning of photography have muddled photographs' status in courtrooms ever since… More »
A historian traces the history of humble footwear in the trenches… More »
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