ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** 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) ============== [log in to unmask] *********************************************************************** For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at www.exhibitfiles.org. The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. To learn more, visit http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to [log in to unmask]