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Hi, Nina

Great idea! Don't forget mercury thermometers, IBM cards, 
typewriters, and what my husband called "smelloxes"--the various 
alternatives/forerunners to Xeroxes. And keep in mind that most of 
the technology actually  used in 1969 goes back at least 5 years 
earlier.

Karen


>Date:    Wed, 20 May 2009 11:59:40 -0400
>From:    Nina Nolan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Changes in technology
>
>
>Hi All,
>
>I am thinking about creating a cart interpretation related to the 
>40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.  Basically, I want to 
>give visitors an appreciation for how hard it was to get a man on 
>the moon, especially given the available technology.  Unfortunately, 
>I am one of those people who were born after the Apollo program 
>ended, and don't have direct experience of this amazing 
>accomplishment in human history.
>
>One of my favorites scenes from the movie Apollo 13 is when the 
>engineers have to calculate the return trajectory, and they all whip 
>out slide rules!  It blows my mind to realize that we sent people 
>240,000 miles away but didn't have the computing power to figure out 
>sines and cosines!
>
>One idea I have is to have examples of everyday items from 1969 and 
>compare them to what's available today.  It should be fun to see the 
>differences between telephones, cameras and portable music players.
>I would love to hear others' input on what might work as a cart 
>interpretation and what other interpretations/activities people are 
>doing around this anniversary.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Nina
>
>--
>Nina Nolan
>Coordinator of Exhibit Hall Interpretation
>Museum of Science
>Science Park
>Boston MA 02114-1099
>(617) 589-0356 (ph)
>(617) 589-0389 (fax)

-- 
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Historian of science and medicine and independent exhibit curator

Curator, "A State of Health: New Jersey's Medical Heritage"
For information about hosting the exhibition: (973) 972-7830.
Exhibition catalogue available from Rutgers University Press, (800) 446-9323
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/

Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, May-December, 2008
Exhibition catalogue available from 
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)
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