Floating Food/Filming Knowledge: Creating Food Knowledge above the Clouds
Details the food knowledge gained when NASA sent astronauts to America’s SkyLab space station and experimented with different packaging.
Research, Resources, Perspectives
Details the food knowledge gained when NASA sent astronauts to America’s SkyLab space station and experimented with different packaging.
Enumerates the sociocultural developments in early 20th-century Jewish-German history that brought the challah knife into being.
Discusses history of risk as an emerging field and the ways it overlaps with the history of knowledge. Uses transnational perspectives on fire-fighting technologies as an example.
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 excited curiosity in nineteenth-century contemporaries and continues to garner interest among scholars today. Attracting some six million visitors and comprising over 100,000 exhibits that filled 76,720 square meters of...
When you want to make a kiln for glassmaking, you search continuously for a propitious day during a favorable month. You lay the foundations of a kiln with four chambers. You make constant offerings and set up purifying divinities so that no impurities may enter: you make lapis lazuli…. Continue reading
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“We are living in a new age,” President Sukarno proclaimed at the First National Science Congress in 1958, “the age of atomic revolution, of nuclear revolution, explorers and sputnik, of interplanetary communications with the...
The first volume of the massive reference book series Handbuch der Architektur (Handbook of Architecture) was published in 1880.1 At this time, the population of European cities was growing at a hitherto unprecedented scale,...
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