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32 results for "Science, Technology, "

Revolutionary Technology

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On view through 2026 Science Center 371, 1 Oxford Street Open Monday–Friday, 11:00 am–4:00 pm Revolutionary Technology, a new exhibit to mark the 250th Anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. Technology was pivotal in the American...

Making a Nation: Technologies of the American Revolution

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Free In-Person Panel Discussion Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, with the support of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation and Boston Revolution250, invites you to join a panel discussion exploring the technologies of the American...

“Light this Candle!” Sixty Years of Americans in Space

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Matthew H. Hersch, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space, following cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s mission three weeks earlier. With the United States trailing...

Between the Senses: A Vision of the Audible Past

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The inspirational source for this exhibit is Jonathan Sterne’s* The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003). With this study, Sterne seeks to challenge the “visual hegemony” of sight as the sense of rationality in the West, by telling...

Harvard Gazette: High-tech for the 1700s

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Electrical conductors. Surveying tools. Mathematical instruments. Harvard College, founded in 1636, was a pioneer in teaching the applied sciences. Over the centuries, the institution amassed thousands of tools used for lessons in physics, trigonometry...

Sit’N Listen Podcast: Sports & Gender

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Men and women have been competing in separate athletic events since at least the time of the ancient Greeks. But why? What biological differences affect the way men and women play sports? And what impact does all of this have on athletics and on our...

About the Collection

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As researchers at Harvard have advanced the sciences, the artifacts of their work continue to inform. Since its inception in 1948, various Harvard departments and private benefactors have added material to the original nucleus of the Collection of...

The Changing Landscape of Plate Tectonics

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Free Public Lecture W. Jason Morgan, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University; Visiting Scholar, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University Plate tectonic theory, a milestone in twentieth-century science, has been instrumental in...

Panel Discussion

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In this panel discussion, noted Freud scholars explored the role of Freud’s drawings and art collection in the development of his psychoanalytic theories, and provided new insights into the man and mind behind some of the most influential and debated...

Radio Contact: Tuning in to Politics, Technology, & Culture

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Remember the times when the whole family gathered round the living room radio to listen to Roosevelt's fireside chats or detective dramas like The Shadow? When boys (and sometimes girls) tinkered with ham radio in garages in order to talk to people across...