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Tactile Speech
The notion of “tactile speech,” as discussed in media and disability studies and histories of science, emerged with the development of twentieth-centu
The Known and the Lived: Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, 1903–1945
Few written traces remain of the personal life of Melitta Schiller-Stauffenberg, a researcher in technical physics and test pilot for the Luftwaffe wh
Oceans and Expeditions Between the Wars
This book examines the way that new technologies, international ideals, and scientific practices changed the way that oceans were studied and imagined
Ear and Instrument—Hermann v. Helmholtz’s “On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music”
This project investigated the relation of psycho-physiological research and musicological theory. It considered music as an experimental setup in its
Related Digital Resources, The Virtual Laboratory, Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Animals disturb airports in multiple ways while also being an integral part of their modus operandi. Airports create their own ecosystems that are emb
Benjamin Steininger über Kohle- und Petrochemie der 1920er Jahre.
Zum ArtikelBenjamin Steininger on coal chemistry and petrochemistry in the 1920s
Go to ArticlesA History of Artificial Beings
This project will retell the global history of technology from ancient times to the present through our changing encounters with objects. It begins in
Brass Instrument Psychology: Timing—1840–1940
The term “brass instrument psychology,” a common term used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to describe laboratory psychology, sho
Virtual Laboratory Project, Essay on Titchener’s Photo Album , Funding Institutions, East Carolina University
Man-Like Apes: Chimps, Gorillas, Orangutans, and European Explorers
This project traces and analyzes British and European early attempts to make sense of great apes. Monkeys and apes, claims Donna Haraway in Primate Vi