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  • Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End
    "Specifications and bureaucracies live forever." Or: why a Solid Rocket Booster is the width of a Roman chariot. This is good.
    (tags: history technology standards bureaucracy )
  • The Online Photographer: The Remarkable Persistence of 24×36
    Cracking piece of… technology history and perspective, I guess, from Mike Johnston: a history of the 35mm film frame size, the things that threatened to unseat it, the ways it bounced back, and the ways other inventions embedded it in history. A really good Total Perspective Vortex of the history of a technology.
    (tags: cameras film photography history culture technology )

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