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Journalist-in-Residence Julia Voss launches “The Situation” podcast series
Listen to PodcastAvantgarde and Psychotechnics. On the Convergence of Science, Art and Technology in the Russian 1920s.
In post-revolutionary Russia, life has become an experiment. The Russian Avantgarde took the new communist society as a quasi-artistic attempt and fol
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Weight Watchers im 17. Jahrhundert: Echt oder Fake?
MoreTactile 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
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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
Theatrical Spoken-Word Records in Germany and France, 1950–1970: Repertoire, Production, Distribution, Use
No history of sound recording technologies will be complete without attending to the history of theater. Phonographic companies began to produce recor
A History of the “Typical”: Scientific Research in Prisoner-of-War-Camps from 1915 to 1918
During the First World War, the politically allied governments of Germany and Austria encouraged scientific commissions to conduct extensive research