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Welsh artist and illustrator Moses Griffith was born #OTD 1747.
These drawings are from a set of Griffith's sketchbooks that @LindaHall_org purchased in 1952.
Further info: https://t.co/blCLWH508E
#histSTM #sciart
#OTD 2018: @UChicagoPress published my book on #RCA & the development of the first LCDs.
If you're looking for a behind-the-screens story of high-tech #innovation, why not add The #TVsOfTomorrow to your library today?
https://t.co/zVpzYKLba0
#histSTM #electronics #LCD
Antonia Maury, American astronomer who worked at the #Harvard College Observatory & discovered the first spectroscopic binary, was born #OTD 1866.
Further details via @LindaHall_org: https://t.co/Pp0yRBMNbr
#histSTM #astronomy
#spectroscopy #WomenInSTEM
Looking for some extra #sciart/#histSTM content this morning?
It's time for you to learn your Lesson.
René Primevére Lesson, French naval officer & zoologist, is @LindaHall_org's Scientist of the Day!
https://t.co/aOMicXrJs4
#PortugueseManOWar #BirdOfParadise #zoology
@freyjawaru @stampedinblind Fun fact: The library's IT department was willing to send me home with two additional monitors, but I thought that might have been overkill.
(And that's coming from someone who literally wrote a book about the history of flat-panel displays...)
#TVsOfTomorrow #LCD
Everything seems to be going great for Nikolai Vavilov so far! Do you think his story will have a happy ending?
#CosmosPossibleWorlds #Lysenko
#histSTM #ColdWar
Breaking out the Cosmic Calendar once again. We move quickly from January to Mar. 15 (3 billion years later) when the Milky Way formed.
Our sun was born around August 31 and the other planets in our solar system would soon follow. Life began in Sep.
#CosmosPossibleWorlds
Interesting parallels here between Polynesian voyagers traveling across the Pacific and future expeditions across the vast oceans of space.
More information on Hawaiian constellations and wayfinding: https://t.co/SeretfZSM3
#histSTM #CosmosPossibleWorlds
🎶"For my hygienic wisdom, though I’m plucky and adventury, has only been brought down to the beginning of the century..."🎶
#GilbertAndSullivan #WashYourLyrics
#PiratesOfPenzance #ModernMajorGeneral
If only more elections featured a freedom eagle...
#GravityFalls https://t.co/XJqRMFMHf4