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A black-and-white image depicts a wooden house in a working-class neighbourhood, early 1900s.
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Engineering & Technology
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The cut nail: A revolutionary technological innovation

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Jan 25, 2022
This tiny object may be the blandest innovation of the Industrial Revolution, but it radically transformed the ability of people to house themselves.
An advertisement of the Société auxiliaire agricole of Paris, France, showing a Pavesi P4 or Agrophile-Pavesi agricultural tractor in action. Anon., “Société auxiliaire agricole,” L’Agriculture nouvelle, 14 January 1922, 4.
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Agriculture
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Once upon a time there was an acrobat tractor: The beautiful although partly military story of the Pavesi P4 farm tractor and the career of Ugo Pavesi

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Jan 23, 2022
Hello, my reading friend, hello. It is with a certain trepidation that yours truly approaches the subject of this week. I feel a certain discomfort at the idea of ​​talking about an agricultural tractor designed in Italy during the years during which the Partito nazionale fascista, an unsavoury organisation led by Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, a pompous brute and buffoonish dictator mentioned since August 2018 in several issues of our blog / bulletin / thingee, held the reins of power. This
Asbestos in mineral form. The mineral is greenish and white in colour and there are visible strands of asbestos fibres.
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Conservation
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Artifacts and asbestos: Managing hazards at Ingenium

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Jan 18, 2022
When it comes to hazardous artifacts, we’re doing "asbestos" we can! Learn how the Conservation team for the Ingenium museums manages potentially dangerous objects.
Two of the great fighter planes of the First World War: A SPAD S.VII of the Royal Flying Corps or Aéronautique militaire and an Albatros D.III of the Luftstreitkräfte. Anon., “A Dog Fight.” Canadian Aviation, January 1932, 12.
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Aviation
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The tale of the most extraordinary photographs ever taken of air fights during the First World War, Or, The long and short of the Cockburn-Lange collection

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Jan 16, 2022
Hello, old bean / chap. Fancy a trip in your crate today? If so, yours truly has a mildly interesting story for you. And yes, you are indeed quite right, my astute reading friend. The photograph above was also published in the November-December 1932 issue of the Chilean magazine Chile Aéreo, in an article entitled “Fotographias auténticas de los combates aéreos.” You did not know that the breathtaking library of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, in Ottawa, Ontario, had issues of Latin
A spliced, three-part image depicts a green-and-red plastic gadget attached to a cow’s tail, a composite image showing hundreds of meteors, and a close-up of a pair of glasses sitting on top of an open book.
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Agriculture
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3 things you should know about tech-enabled cows, meteors, and presbyopia

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Jan 14, 2022
For the January edition, we explain new technology which is making cow births safer, an international citizen science initiative for monitoring meteors, and how a new eye drop is improving vision for the middle-aged consumer.
A woman is silhouetted in front of a circular, glowing showcase presenting the Koenig Sound Analyser. The title, “Seeing Sound” is visible on the wall.
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Mind the gap: The positive impact of multi-sensory experiences

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Jan 10, 2022
As a blind/low vision child, two things seemed just out of reach for Samantha Moore: history and art.
An overall view of one of the first telephone networks in Canada, Montréal, Québec, 1878. Anon., “Le premier téléphone qui ait jamais été installé à Montréal.” La Presse, 27 January 1912, 5.
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They were among the first to reach out and touch someone: A look at one of the first telephone networks in Canada

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Jan 9, 2022
Greetings, my eager beaver reading friend, a welcome caused by the fact that I see a hand poking out of the ether. You have a question? Wunderbar! Is there a typo in the photographic reference that will kick off this issue of our wonderful blog / bulletin / thingee, you ask? The year 1878 was a little too early, you say. It was certainly early, but not too early. The truth was / is that one of the first telephone networks in Canada was established in Montréal, Québec, in 1878, I think. I kid you
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