Leonardo to the Internet:

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• "Historically Thinking" with Al Zambone (Feb. 2022)
• "Display & Distraction" Uranium + cryptocurrency in KZ? (Mar. 2022)
  

Further Reading

1. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE COURT (1450-1600)
     Renaissance   [Internet Medieval History Sourcebook]
     Reformation  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

2. TECHNIQUES OF COMMERCE (1588-1740)
     Early Modern World  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

3. GEOGRAPHIES OF INDUSTRY (1740-1851)
   Industrial Revolution  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

4. INSTRUMENTS OF EMPIRE (1840-1914)
     Imperialism  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

5. SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS (1870-1930)

6. MATERIALS OF MODERNISM (1900-1950)

7. MEANS OF DESTRUCTION (1936-1990)

8. PROMISES OF GLOBAL CULTURE (1970-2001)

HISTORY OF COMPUTING
HISTORY OF ENGINEERING

9. PATHS TO INSECURITY (2001-2010)

10. DOMINANCE OF THE DIGITAL (1990-2016)

WWW sites (see also Reading Questions)

Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance

The machines, technical devices and constructions of Leonardo da Vinci, Brunelleschi and the Sienese engineers of the Renaissance. [Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence]

Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Madrid

The Codex Madrid, lost for 250 years and found in 1965, is here presented with commentary: Italian, German, English texts plus fabulous images decoded and clarified. [RWTH Aachen (2013)]

National Gallery's Dutch artists

BBC's "Industrialisation" see Paul Atterbury "Victorian Technology"; Pat Hudson "Workshop of the World"; Bruce Robinson "All Change in the Victorian Age"

Compare Mount Holyoke College "Images of the Industrial Era" with
Economic History Society "The Industrial Revolution: Britain, 1750-1830"

"From Steelton to Mandalay"
Documents a notable instance of American railroad hardware in imperial India-Burma.

Library of Congress "American Memory" 
On-line documents on (e.g.) AG Bell, American environment, 'built in America', Westinghouse factories [1904], pioneer trails, railroad maps, Samuel Morse, Wright Brothers, working in Paterson NJ . . . .

Thomas Edison papers (Rutgers Univ)
on-line searchable documents; PDFs of Edison's 1,093 patents 

Science Museum-London "Making the Modern World"

Images

 

	open access	password needed
Islamic noria (water-raising wheel) in Cordoba, Spain	tjm
Leonardo and Renaissance Engineering	tjm
Crystal Palace (1851)		UMn
Virtual Manchester	WWW	UMn
Sheffield-Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet		UMn
"Steelton to Mandalay" [1902 railroad bridge in Burma]	tjm
"Railways of India"	tjm

Reading questions

1. Technologies of the Court_[updated Nov. 2021]

2. Techniques of Commerce [updated Nov. 2021]

3. Geographies of Industry_[updated Nov. 2021]

4. Instruments of Empire _[updated Nov. 2021]

5. Science and Systems_[updated Nov. 2021]

6. Materials of Modernism_[updated Nov. 2021]

7. Means of Destruction  [updated Nov. 2021]

8. Global Culture _[updated Nov. 2021]

9. Paths to Insecurity _[updated Nov. 2021]

10. Dominance of the Digital [updated Dec. 2021]

11. Question of Technology _[updated Nov. 2021]