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Jan 15, 2020
2 min

Atlas Designed to Illustrate Burritt's Geography of the Heavens

"Back in New Britain, Burritt had to begin a new life. He owned some property known as the 'Stone Store.' He remodeled the buil

Jan 15, 2020
2 min

Sunwriting: Brief history of heliography & the making of the world's oldest surviving photograph

Comprised of the Greek words helios (sun) and graphein (writing), heliography — or héliographie in French — means sunwriting. Niépce coined

Jan 15, 2020
3 min

Space-Inspired Songs by David Bowie

Space-Inspired Songs by David Bowie | "Before any earthling ever set foot on the moon, David Bowie was deep in outer space, standing at

Jan 15, 2020
1 min

Vintage US Space Achievement Stamps 1960 —1975: A photo essay

Oct 15, 2019
2 min

Robots To Build Seoul's Robot Science Museum

If you were going to construct a robot science museum dedicated to the history, present, and future of robotics, using robots to build it wo

Oct 15, 2019
2 min

Space Robots by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Earth Robots by the Institute of Robot

MIT's new mini cheetah robot is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip. At only 20 pounds, the limber quadruped can bend and swing

Oct 15, 2019
2 min

Classic Robot Cinema: "The Master Mystery" (1918), "Metropolis" (1927) & The Phantom Creeps (1939)

The Master Mystery (1918) Fifteen-episode serial Starring: Harry Houdini, Marguerite Marsh, Ruth Stonehouse, Edna Britton, William Pike,

Jul 15, 2019
3 min

How the Blackest Black in the World is Changing the Gaming Experience

Vantablack is in fact the blackest black that exists on our planet. Mind blowingly, it is not the blackest material in the universe, but it’

Jul 15, 2019
4 min

Pigment and Concrete: New York City through the eyes of American illustrator Joseph Pennell

Joseph Pennell (1857 — 1926) was an American writer, etcher, lithographer, and artist, who produced over 5,000 drawings throughout his lifet

Jul 15, 2019
1 min

Max Factor Lipstick Ads 1935 — 1960: A photo essay

Jul 15, 2019
1 min

The Rise of Winsor & Newton: A photo essay

1892: Winsor & Newton is founded at 38 Rathbone Place | Scientist William Winsor and artist Henry Newton establish their partnership at

Apr 15, 2019
4 min

Circle the Wagons! How covered wagons opened the West and changed history

Art depictions of the prairie schooner far outnumber those of the Conestoga, even though that heavier wagon is the more elegant one. But bec

Apr 15, 2019
1 min

A Word About Transport: Poems by Wordsworth, Pound, and Frost

Apr 15, 2019
1 min

A Visual History of the Howdah: A photo essay

A Visual History of the Howdah: A photo essay | Ideal portrait of Sitti Hatun, Mehmed's second wife (late 15th century) Artist Unknown

Apr 15, 2019
1 min

Battles of Barbary Pirates and Privateers: A photo essay

Battles of Barbary Pirates and Privateers: A photo essay 1538 Battle of Preveza (1866) by Ohannes Umed Behzad | A French ship and Barbary p

Dec 28, 2018
3 min

Toys in Satire and Political Commentary on the Russo-Japanese War by Kobayashi Kiyochika

When it comes to the creation of impactful social commentary, few things are as effective as satirical cartoons. Growing up in a rapidly evo

Dec 28, 2018
1 min

Twelve Magic Changelings (1907) by Glen, M. A., Cutouts for Children: A photo essay

The Twelve Magic Changelings (1907) by Glen, M. A. Published: Frederick A. Stokes Co. Summary: "Cut-outs for children of Mary and her

Dec 28, 2018
1 min

Pastime for Little Fingers: A photo essay

Oct 1, 2018
3 min

How to Kill Koschei the Deathless: Symbolism and nature

Slavic folklore is very different from its Western counterpart. Let’s start with fact that its most recognizable and quintessential antagoni

Oct 1, 2018
3 min

Vanitas, Vanity of Vanities: This is why we can't have nice things

The art form hails from the chilly shores of the once United Provinces of the Netherlands, which was a world-famous Calvinsm hotspot during

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