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Covering topics about a particular technology advanced from ideas of the ancients... to the "dream realized" in our time.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
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With the 2006 acquisition of the Burndy Library (a collection of nearly 70,000 items), The Huntington became one the top institutions in the world for the study of the history of science and technology. In November 2008, The Huntington opened Dibner Hall of the History of Science, which features the permanent exhibition “Beautiful Science: Ideas that Change the World.” It includes galleries devoted to astronomy, natural history, medicine, and light. In lectures and interviews, curators and s ...
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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: Now I See You As You Are
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Jennifer van Saders, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow, will discuss how the technique of astroseismology has revolutionized scientists’ view of the internal workings of stars. This talk is part of the Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded May 15, 2017.Oleh Alan Dressler, Carnegie Observatories
Dr. Johanna Teske, Carnegie Origins Postdoctoral Fellow, highlights new discoveries about exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our Sun—including how their composition is “inherited” from their host star. This talk is part of the Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded May 1, 2017.…
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Exploding Stars
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Tony Piro, the George Ellery Hale Distinguished Scholar in Theoretical Astrophysics at the Carnegie Observatories, discusses how scientists are combining observations with theoretical modeling to unravel the mysteries of supernovae. This talk is part of the Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded April 3, 2017.…
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Simulating the Universe, One Galaxy at a Time
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Andrew Wetzel, Caltech-Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, discusses how theoretical astrophysics is now revealing how galaxies are formed, using the world’s most powerful supercomputers to simulate this complex process. This talk is part of the Carnegie Astronomy Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded April 17, 2017.…
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PBS’s “Mercy Street” and Medical Histories of the Civil War
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The Huntington presents a fascinating conversation about the practice of medicine during the U.S. Civil War and its dramatization in the popular PBS series “Mercy Street.” The panel discussion is moderated by Melissa Lo, Dibner Assistant Curator or Science and Technology at The Huntington, and includes curator Olga Tsapina, who oversees The Hunting…
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The Value of Patents: A Historian’s Perspective
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Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, discusses the important ways in which patents have contributed to technological innovation over the course of U.S. history. This talk is part of the Haaga Lecture Series at The Huntington. Recorded Jan. 9, 2017.…
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Aerospace in Southern California
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The history of the aerospace industry in Southern California and its intersections with contemporary culture are the focus of this panel discussion, presented in conjunction with the exhibition of NASA’s Orbit Pavilion (on view at The Huntington from Oct. 29, 2016, to Feb. 27, 2017). Panelists are Peter Westwick, aerospace historian; William Devere…
Neal Nathanson M.D., discusses a 1955 incident in which Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., inadvertently released batches of polio vaccine that contained the live virus. Nathanson, who headed the unit of the Epidemic Intelligence Service that investigated cases of polio resulting from the Cutter vaccine, also provides an update on efforts tow…
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Physics and “Belles Lettres”: The Arts & the Sciences in the Industrial Revolution
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Jon Mee, professor of 18th-century studies at the University of York and the R. Stanton Avery Distinguished Fellow at The Huntington, discusses the network of literary and philosophical societies that sprang up in response to the transformative experience of the industrial revolution in the north of England between 1780 and 1830. Recorded Sept. 21,…
Astronomer Katherine Alatalo will tour the Hubble sequence, from "young" to "old" galaxies, exploring three avenues to galactic transitions: the quiet, slow fade; the violent merger; and the quietly violent evolution of a galaxy, likely due to a supermassive black hole in its center. This talk is part of the Carnegie Lecture series.…
Astronomer Kevin Schlaufman, Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, tells the story of exoplanets to date, and outlines the progress being made in the search for life elsewhere in our galaxy. This talk is part of the Carnegie Lecture series.
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A Different Space: NASA in the Postcolonial World
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Asif Siddiqi, professor of history at Fordham University and the Searle Visiting Professor in the History at Caltech and The Huntington, discusses a lost “global” history of space exploration and the reach of space activities at the height of the Cold War.Oleh The Huntington
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A Short History of Planet Formation
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Join Anat Shahar, staff scientist in the geophysical laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science, for an exploration of terrestrial planets and a discussion of what laboratory experiments can reveal about the conditions that formed them.Oleh The Huntington
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Finding a Cure at the British Spa
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Amanda E. Herbert, assistant professor of history at Christopher Newport University, describes 17th- and 18th-century medical regimes, exploring why Britons drank and swam in mineral waters in order to heal themselves from disease or injury.Oleh The Huntington
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100 Years of Relativity: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
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Kip Thorne, Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at Caltech, describes the ideas underlying general relativity and the amazing discoveries about warped spacetime that have been made in the past 100 years. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein formulated his general relativity theory, which describes space and time as warped by mass an…
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Science and Sociability in the French Revolution
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Dena Goodman, professor of history at the University of Michigan, discusses a group of young men whose passion for science guided them through the turmoil of the French Revolution and into leadership roles in the decades that followed.
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William Smith: The Man, His Map, and the Democratization of Geology
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Simon Winchester, author of The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology, tells the extraordinary story of British surveyor, William Smith.Oleh The Huntington
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The Dock Society Presents: An Evening at “The Knick”
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Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, co-creators of “The Knick,” have a discussion and Q&A about their Cinemax series. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, the show follows Dr. John Thackery (played by Clive Owen) at The Knickerbocker Hospital – aka The Knick – a microcosm of medical progress, racial tension, sexism, addiction, and class conflict in 1900s New …
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The Invisible Infrastructure of the Grid
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William Rankin, assistant professor of the history of science at Yale University, explores the links between roadside surveying markers, nuclear missile targeting, and new forms of mapping in the twentieth century. His talk will focus on the grid-like alternatives to latitude and longitude that were created during and after the World Wars, especial…
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
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Best-selling author Andrea Wulf (Founding Gardeners; The Brother Gardeners) discusses her new book on the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859). Humboldt, says Wulf, created the way we understand nature today. Perceiving nature as an interconnected global force, Humboldt discovered sim…
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The Anatomy of an Illness as Seen by the Patient: Norman Cousins and the Patients’ Rights “Revolution” of the 1970s
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Nancy Tomes, professor of history at Stony Brook University, reflects on the impact of Norman Cousins’ groundbreaking 1976 article and his subsequent efforts to change the definition of the “good” patient. The lecture is sponsored by the George Dock Society for the History of Medicine. This is part of the Walter Jarvis Barlow Lecture series.…
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Why Did Isaac Newton Believe in Alchemy?
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William R. Newman, professor of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University, examines why one of the most influential scientists who ever lived believed in alchemical transmutation, which has long been discredited in the modern scientific world.Oleh The Huntington
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"ReBoot!" The Prologue to The History of Technology
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As with all great projects, this podcast has to have a "reboot". Listen for all of the excuses and then allow me to increase the quality of my pet project.Oleh dettworks
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The History of Computer Programming (part 1)
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Starting with Aristotle's Logic until the 1970's. Was the first computer programmer the daughter of Lord Byron? Listen and discover with me.Oleh dettworks
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Romantic Engineering and Engineering Romance (Trent Dames Lecture)
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Rosalind Williams, author of “The Triumph of Human Empire,” discusses how the writer Robert Louis Stevenson understood engineering as a romantic profession, and how his engineering education led him to defend "romance" over "realism" in literature. Her talk was the 2013¬–14 Trent Dames Lecture at The Huntington.…
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Copernicus and the Astrologers of Cracow and Bologna
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Robert S. Westman describes a late 15th-century crisis about the status of astrology that led to Nicolas Copernicus’ great hypothesis that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Westman is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego, and author of the book “The Copernican Question: Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order” (…
