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VP for Research & Scholarship @LindaHall_org; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018) All tweets my own.
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Behold the Woggles! (left) These real-time animations created through Project Oz filtered out into the cultural landscape of the 1990s.

How? Virtual pets! (e.g. Dogz & Catz, which pre-dated the Tamagotchi by a few years...)

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Oct. 2022 issue of Technology & Culture was just released, and the section is devoted to 's virtual

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This writing project has been in the works for over a year. Here's a quick thread... (1/n)

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Asking people to pick a favorite star could provoke a controversy...

(Illustration of Canis Major & Lepus from 's copy of Urania's Mirror, 1825: https://t.co/oVAURrgZ8Q)

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(2017-18 *and* 2022-23 LHL Fellow) received an research grant to explore the relationship b/w politics & natural history during the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848).

Check out the project's website: https://t.co/8H9rRCCwzN [8/16]

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Did someone say "eagle-eyed"?

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Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, is 's

These ornithological illustrations are from ' copy of Sparrman's Museum carlsonianum (1786-9).

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The microscopic world is beautiful. Just look at all those Perty pictures!

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty, German naturalist who published an illustrated treatise on in 1852, is 's

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André Tacquet, a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit priest whose books are filled with emblematic imagery, is 's

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Sometimes I wonder who would win in a fight between Cookie Jarvis and Waldo, the Lucky Charms Wizard...

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celebrates Elijah McCoy (b. 1844), the Black Canadian-American engineer whose inventions improved the efficiency of locomotives & steam engines.

He is often cited as the inspiration for the expression, "The real McCoy"

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