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I learned the cost to transport a train car of steel back in 2013. In the process I sparked an interest in nature of shipping networks and the evolution of the way society built things.This boat? Bought by a railway Barron, and shipped inland on rails.https://t.co/c0dSuR3ccx
Shiny stainless steel starships, but 1906 era.https://t.co/UYasjxVlzK
Shelburn museum was founded in part by an association with Vanderbilt family - a railroad and shipping empire. The main curator & driving force behind the museum was the daughter of {president of the American Sugar Refining Company}. She collected dolls.https://t.co/Q3LkbE6q0l
More than dolls, she collected memories. Electra Havemeyer Webb was a driving force behind preserving amercian history at a time before "Americans had yet to understand that their heritage was interesting and worthy of preservation." https://t.co/6iqtMhEA54
She endeavored "to assemble encyclopedic and irreplaceable collections of American material culture." and is likely one of the reasons why we know so much about our history. How many american contemporaries has she helped to inspire?https://t.co/ALsSfkOme8
Studying Darwin's early childhood and collegiate career, you quickly see how Museums influenced his early habits of collecting and identifying species of plants. A cultural interest in fossils and working in museums influenced how he was able to reach conclusions that he made.
History is speckled with women collecting things that no one thought to.https://t.co/xu0azfg3NC
History is speckled with massive collections of culture - libraries and museums - burned and destroyed.https://t.co/iTghcyk3Xd
'Earth as my hard drive, sky as my witnessThere’s no such thing as small spiritsAncestral minorities take breath through nature’s hidden forces'https://t.co/zCRQNEPktDhttps://t.co/i4NJ0mbsqf
Ohhttps://t.co/6Iz9N0HkFC https://t.co/QmhjeHVntr
"Stafford Beer described using the SAKI in his 1959 book Cybernetics and Management"https://t.co/IF5dYAfytnThats neat. I wonder how well it works to learn a novel UI.