STUDIES IN TECHNOLOGY

• Trouble with DELL rebates? ...as 2003 begins?



• A handful of essays for Woodworkers Discussion of technical things the woodworkers should know about.



• Handtools for Woodworkers selling some.....after all you can't take it with you



• A New Bookshelf Design An Experiment in a Thousand Words without Pictures



• The Poet and the Spectrograph



• The Golden Mean A full discussion of the GM ration (1 618034.. : 1) and how the Greeks managed to use this calculation in architecture without computation.



• The Fibonacci Series of Numbers A comparison of the Fibonacci Sequence with the Golden Mean Proportion.



• A Roman Satellite Aloft 200 B.C. A satellite based legal surveillance system



• The Properly Tempered Piano Maintaining and keeping your piano in perfect tune as a necessity for sensitive performance and practice.



• Music as Sound: Music as MIND



• St. Paul: 1Corinthians,Ch.13 The use of tuned Helmholz resonators as amplification in the ancient theaters.



• My Toilet The old Prof. lucubrates on a household problem with his water-closet, which escalates to ways of looking at life and living.



• Technology in the Greco-Roman World Some notes on three topics.1) Metallurgy of steel 2) Bronze alloy 3) Beekeeping and medicine.



• The American Machinist A remarkable 19th c. illustrated weekly on the new technologies then appearing in this country. Invaluable for the historian of science and technology.



• On New Thought in the Age of the Computers The new ways of thinking which have emerged since the spread of computers, are instant, intuitive, expansive and (basically) non-verbal, a bitter pill to the traditional verbally oriented Humanist.



• Plato and Mathematics A study in the various ways in which Plato used math. as a basis for his logic, with the change toward intuition evidenced in the Meno and afterwards.



• Thought and Mind



• A ComputerAided Reading Project A review of some of the possibilities with computers, e.g. in the Yale reading programs of the pre-computer age. Directed toward practical use, brief.

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