#historyoftechnology

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is the original residence and printing house of the Plantin-Moretus publishing family in the heart of Antwerp. It showcases three hundred years of book-printing art and has on display some of the oldest printing presses in the world. The remarkably well-preserved house museum takes the visitor through a tour of the craft, technologies and everyday practices of the first industrial scale printers in Europe. Additionally, one can view manuscripts, incunabula and original prints as well as a rich collection of art, including portraits by Rubens, a close friend of Balthazar I Moretus. #printing #historyofprinting #printisnotdead #printingpress #bookprinting #woodcutprint #copperplate #lithography #plantinmoretus #plantinmoretusmuseum #printmaking #historyofart #historyofscience #historyoftechnology #rubens #antwerp #belgium #visitbelgium #belgiumhistory #europeanhistory #westerneurope #benelux #flemish #historymuseum #museumfromhome #museumlover #booklover #bookaddict #bookcommunity #bookstagram (at Museum Plantin-Moretus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqFPiNIrtqv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

(history of automation) From the first steam engines to today’s intelligent robots, humanity’s journey with automation has been nothing short of revolutionary.

This is a free comic that I lettered, drawn by @marcus_kwame - it’s about a brother who essential to the creation of the video game industry. Written by Matt Slayter created for @popcultureclassroom Posted @withregram • @popcultureclassroom New for Middle and High School: Learn how unsung inventor Jerry Lawson paved the way for today's video games in a special Black History Month issue of Colorful History. This free download includes the history comic, discussion topics, project ideas, and reference lists for further exploration. Written by @mattieslay Art by @marcus_kwame Lettering by @ralanwrites #blackhistorymonth #videogames #historyoftechnology #teachinghistory #stemstories #historycomic #blackexcellence #classroomresource #teachersofinstagram #videogamehistory #classroomcomics #teachingresources #teachingideas #steamstories (at Denver, Colorado) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaS1dF5lX7e/?utm_medium=tumblr

“European empires of the nineteenth century were economy empires, cheaply obtained by taking advantage of new technologies, and, when the cost of keeping them rose a century later, quickly discarded. In the process, they unbalanced world relations, overturned ancient ways of life, and opened the way for a new global civilization.” Daniel Headrick’s 1981 book The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century explores the social history of technology connecting what its author considers the two “great events” of the nineteenth century: the colonization of Africa and Asia, and the progress and development of industrial technology. Headrick views nineteenth century imperialism as a result of both appropriate motives and adequate means, and divides the trajectory of its history into the three stages of exploration, conquest, and the forging of communication and transportation networks, and explores the development and role of technologies like guns, quinine, submarine cables, railroads and gunboats and steamships. To me, one of the highlights of the book was the interconnected histories of the collaboration of politics, legislation, technological innovation and capital in the success of the steamship lobby in pushing for investment in gunboats in the British empire that Headrick traces, among other similar narratives pertaining to other technologies. His rejection of the “leading sectors” model through which traditional historiographies used to view the Industrial revolution, and their long disregard of technological factors in imperialist expansion, was also noteworthy. This book sits at the crossroads of the history of technology, economic history and the history of European imperialism, and does a good job of exploring how certain technologies impacted and enabled imperial developments. 4/5 🌟 & full review on #goodreads (link in bio) #danielheadrick #historyoftechnology #hst #historyofscience #colonialism #imperialism #militaryhistory #economichistory #britishempire #19thcentury #nineteenthcentury #history #historylovers #historybooks #academicbooks #bookrecommendations #bookstagram #bookreview #nonfiction #nonfictionbook https://www.instagram.com/p/CRnNIQSLVMd/?utm_medium=tumblr

That’s what it’s all about, baby. #history #historyoftechnology https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWOPD-hiR-/?igshid=l21cei6m6rcw

Moreover, it doesn’t stop there since being released in 2011 Facebook’s messenger released updates introducing free voice and video calling. So really the possibilities are endless with messenger and its expanding features. Perhaps one of the only downfalls to today’s mode of communication through messenger is the somewhat lack of passion and sentiment. For to sit down and write a letter one puts true thought in all that they are wanting to share, whereas due to the immediacy of communication nowadays we can forget how important it is to truly connect with one another, than purely to participate in gossip and petty conversation.

This is going to be a #funday #sundayfunday #research #19thcentury #technology #historyoftechnology #historyofnewyorkcity #sideproject #amwriting #relaxing #comforting #bitoffun #writerscorner #writingcommunity