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Right after reading the first responses to Nina Nolan's posting about
changes in technology since 1969, I saw this very relevant, very
interesting video. (If you're anywhere near Princeton, the RCA
history exhibits at the Sarnoff Library are well worth a visit.)
Karen
>H-NJ From: "Gary Saretzky" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Wed, May 20, 2009 11:06 am
>
>The entertaining and informative keynote address by Alex Magoun, former
>MARAC NJ Caucus Chair and Director, David Sarnoff Library, on the RCA
>Origins of Everyday Things, presented at Archives and History Day 2005, is
>now available as a 33-minute video on the Monmouth County Archives
>website, http://co.monmouth.nj.us/page.aspx?Id=1723
> http://co.monmouth.nj.us/VideoPlayer.aspx?ID=663
>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)
--
Karen Reeds, Ph.D., FLS
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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