Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat: Creating digital records on shared public storage
On-line, for SIS-members only.Presented by Tom Jackson, UK Example of an object owned by an institution (image by T. Jackson). This presentation provides one possible answer to the question of how to create and where to store digital records about objects of historical interest including the restoration of historic scientific instruments. In particular objects which are not owned …
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Fireside Chat Guglielmo Marconi’s Magnetic Detectors in a Cigar Box: Biography of a Material Myth
On-line, for SIS-members only.Presented by Magnetic detector in a cigar box on display at Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (IGB-2139) in a 1957 photograph. Archivio Fotografico Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Milan, Italy), id. 2090, Sala Marconi, "Riproduzione del detector magnetico ideato e costruito da Guglielmo Marconi", Studio Sella, September 1957. Synopsis: …