[Sci-tech-public] TONIGHT @ 6:30

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>Clipper Ships - The Design Process
>A Lecture About The Roots of Scientific Method
>6:30 This Evening at MIT Museum - Free Admission
>
>Maritime historian and acclaimed model maker Rob Napier of Newburyport, 
>Massachusetts, discusses the evolution of the half-hull model and the 
>relationship of half-hull models to the design process of 19th-century 
>American shipbuilding.
>
>Napier has 30 years of experience as a professional model ship maker. He 
>is model consultant to the New York Yacht Club, Boston's Museum of Fine 
>Arts and many other important private collections. Napier has authored 
>well over 50 articles and reviews relating to his profession, lectured 
>widely on model making and for several years he served as editor of the 
>Nautical Research Journal. Prior to his current profession, Napier was a 
>U. S. Navy journalist and photographer during two late-1960s combat 
>cruises to Southeast Asia aboard the attack carrier USS Ticonderoga.
>
>Presented in conjunction with The Clipper Ship Era exhibition on view 
>through July 10, 2005.
>
>MIT Museum
>265 Massachusetts Avenue
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>-- Hours: Tues - Fri 10 am - 5 pm; Sat & Sun Noon - 5 pm. Closed holidays.
>-- Admission: Adults - $5, youth under 18, students, seniors - $2, 
>children under 5 and MIT ID holders - free.
>-- Free third Sunday of each month
>-- Wheelchair accessible
>
>Information: 617-253-4444 or http://web.mit.edu/museum
>
>--
>Kurt Hasselbalch
>Curator
>Hart Nautical Collections
>MIT Museum (N52-2nd flr)
>265 Massachusetts Ave.
>Cambridge, MA 02139
>617-253-5942 (voice)
>617-258-9107 (fax)
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