Articles Tagged with old technology

Why keep old things?

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Collectors and others

There are two types of people who retain old technology.

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Putting pen to paper (II)

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The novelists’ instrument

We examine an incident in which new technology did not change literary genres.

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How big is the world?

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Measuring a cabbage-patch

“It’s a small world” is a cliché.  Can we measure how small?

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Putting pen to paper

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Writing changes, and doesn’t

We examine several literary genres.

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Consider construction

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The persistence of the mundane

We ponder some unexciting work.

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The post-fire generation

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Needed no longer

The recent and rapid demise of the open flame.

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Transistors, candles and light bulbs

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Simple or complicated

Which would you rather explain?

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The navigator’s watch

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Combining instruments

Doing some things the old-fashioned way is getting difficult.

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Unfamiliar territory

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Out of one’s field

Our photographer looks at some paintings.

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How it’s done

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Telescopes and databases

Astronomy changes.  So do the kind of people who become astronomers.

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