The Times (November 28, 1919), Einstein On His Theory: “By Dr. Albert Einstein. I respond with pleasure to your Correspondent’s request that I should write something for The Times on the Theory of Relativity.” (via)
Entries Tagged as 'history'
Einstein On His Theory. Time, Space, and Gravition.
June 19th, 2008
Tags: albert einstein · history · science
The web that time forgot
June 18th, 2008
‘The telegraph room at the original Mundaneum in Brussels. (Mundaneum)’ IHT, The web that time forgot: “On a fog-drizzled Monday afternoon, this fading medieval city feels like a forgotten place. Apart from the obligatory Gothic cathedral, there is not much to see here except for a tiny storefront museum called the Mundaneum, tucked down a [...]
Tags: history · internet · paul otlet · www
How the Web Was Won. An Oral History of the Internet.
June 5th, 2008
The Founding Fathers: Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran, and Larry Roberts Vanity Fair, How the Web Was Won. An Oral History of the Internet: “Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era [...]
Andy Baio: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web
March 18th, 2008
Waxy, Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web: “Lately, I’ve started collecting old VHS tapes about the Internet from the early- to mid-1990s. While most of these are pretty corny — think Gabe and Max’s Internet Thing — they also inadvertently captured pieces of the web that don’t exist anywhere else. The Internet [...]
Wired 1.1
February 9th, 2008
Fimoculous, Wired 1.1: An Archaeology: “Peeling back those matte pages now, one can’t help falling victim to a bit of nostalgia for this town crier of the proto-digital era. There was no logical reason that this magazine should even have existed in 1993. Clinton/Gore had just been sworn in, and no one was talking about [...]
Photo albums of German soldiers
February 4th, 2008
Фотоальбомы немецких солдат. (Photo albums of German soldiers.) MeFi, Photo albums of German soldiers: “Photo albums of German soldiers. Fully scanned photos from the personal albums of German soldiers from the Second World War and the years preceding it.”
Tags: germany · history · photography · war · wo2
De 100 monumenten van Herrema
January 18th, 2008
Voormalig Belastingkantoor, ontwerp van G. Friedhoff, aan de Wibautstraat. Nu Philip Kohnstammhuis genaamd. De 100 monumenten van Herrema: “Welke bouwwerken uit de naoorlogse periode behoren tot de top van de Amsterdamse architectuur en stedenbouw?” Zie verder Inleiding Top 100 en Negen Amsterdamse objecten door minister aangewezen als rijksmonument.
Tags: amsterdam · architecture · design · history
$100 a barrel: Lone trader seeks minute of fame
January 3rd, 2008
Financial Times, Lone trader seeks minute of fame: “An independent trader apparently intent on securing his place in market history was responsible for oil prices briefly touching the unprecedented level of $100 a barrel – on the back of a single tiny trade, writes Javier Blas. Some observers questioned the validity of the price mark [...]