[Sci-tech-public] Victorian steam tour

[Merritt Roe Smith]

I agree!  Good idea Michael!  Roe

At 06:32 PM 10/28/2008 -0400, michael fischer wrote:
>Great pictures, David!  Also impressive is the sparkling cleanness of
>the machinery -- reminds me of the wonderful new Koch Technology
>Museum in Istanbul.  I love the idea of their makers being like our
>hackers.  It would make a wonderful informal colloquium or brown bag
>talk to show these pictures with some more elaboration of the
>incremental steps of hacking ideas and previous machines in order to
>create new ones, and the relation between hacking and macro modernist
>visions (as with the caption about the Brunel drawing re fast trains
>to London).
>
>Mike
>
>
>On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:43 PM, David Mindell wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > IEEE Spectrum magazine has published a set of my photographs from our
> > Victorian Steam Tour in the UK this summer as part of their SteamPunk
> > article. See it at:
> >
> > http://spectrum.ieee.org/nov08/6928
> >
> > d
> >
> >
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