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25.2.21 // today’s lecture notes 

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Illustration of a hydropowered perpetual flute from “The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices” by Ismail al-Jazari in 1206.

Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, circa 1900s, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Her degree was awarded in 1943 by The Catholic University of America for her dissertation “The Determination of Sets of Independent Conditions Characterizing Certain Special Cases of Symmetric Correspondences”.

Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software engineer, in the Apollo Command Module, circa late 1960s.

1915 illustration of Elisha Gray’s telautograph system, an instrument designed for the electrical reproduction of handwriting.

Jagadish Chandra Bose with other prominent scientists and engineers at Calcutta University, circa 1920s. Bose was born in Bikrampur (present day Munshiganj in Bangladesh) and made many pioneering developments to radio research in the 1880s. Seated, left to right: Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Jnan Chandra Ghosh. Standing, left to right: Snehamoy Dutt, Satyendranath Bose, Debendra Mohan Bose, N. R. Sen, Jnanendra Nath Mukherjee, N. C. Nag.

1933 postcard advertising the Atlantic City Auditorium and Convention Hall. Opened in 1929, the Hall has been designated an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.

Laura Annie Willson, co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society, circa 1920. Willson was involved in the suffragette and trade union movements, and was imprisoned twice for her political activities.

Alfred Norton Goldsmith, a founder of the Institute of Radio Engineers, one of the predecessor societies to the modern IEEE, with Italian Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi, June 26th, 1922.

The Bund, a waterfront area in Shanghai, 1930.

Samarkand Station, Russian Empire (modern day Uzbekistan), 1890.

Record matrix room, Berliner Gramophone Company, Montréal, Québec, 1910.

Holt Steamer No. 77, the second prototype of a crawler-track-type tractor built by the Holt Machinery Company, 1905.

Jost Amman’s 1568 illustration of a brewery.

Harriet Quimby in the cockpit of her Blériot monoplane, 1911.

1902 photograph of the French submarine Gymnote. The submarine was initially constructed in 1888, with the small conning tower added in 1898. The Gymnote was one of the world’s first all-electric submarines and the first functional submarine equipped with torpedoes.

Else Marie Pade, monitoring her Faust suite composition, 1962. During World War II she was involved with the Danish resistance and began composing music after she was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent to Frøslev Prison Camp. Pade was one of the earliest electroacoustic composers from Denmark and worked with Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Pierre Boulez.