Righto.com has a rather delightful introduction to and teardown of a Globus INK – a Soviet-era mechanical navigation aid for spaceflight.
Inside the Globus INK: A Mechanical Navigation Computer for Soviet Spaceflight
Category: History
The FAA/NASA animation of the closing of US Airspace on 9/11
A NASA animation of the FAA’s continental US flight logs from the morning of September 11th, 2001.
24 bloody years…
Netscape Navigator User Demographics circa 1996
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
The old MS Mac Lab
York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)
An old photo of what was, back then, a rather new view.
Continue reading “York Minster, West Front / James Valentine (between 1860 and 1879)”Demons, Exorcisms, and the Scientific Method
This is interesting; Heresy, witchcraft, Jean Gerson, scepticism and the use of placebo controls covers a late 16th Century French attempt to apply a proto-scientific method to demonic possession and, in effect, implement a placebo-controlled trial.
The First Longships Lighthouse at Land’s End, Cornwall
A lovely shot of the first Longships Lighthouse taken in the 1860s by William May. The long exposure fuzz on the ocean is an artefact of the then-available photography process rather than an artistic choice.
NVIDIA Verses A Conspiracy Theory
Sadly lost to the mists of time the Wayback Machine, here’s NVIDIA’s recreation of the Apollo 11 moonwalk – complete with accurate, conspiracy-busting lighting!
The 185th Anniversary of the York Minster Fire of 1840
It’s the 185th anniversary of the fire at York Minster on 20th May, 1840 and here’s a print to mark the occasion!
Behind the Bamboo Curtain – Spying on China During Mao’s Cultural Revolution / ITN (1967)
An interesting historic look by ITN at monitoring Mao’s China from 1967.