This wasn’t a machine for giving new students tests. It was a machine for testing how strong materials were.
My understanding is that no new students were ever tested in this machine. Not in that way.
More from The New Students’ Reference Work is available on Wikisource.
From the NOAA Photo Library, Historic Fisheries Collection, in the somewhat questionably titled ” Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals” section.
Are manatees useful? I mean, I’m glad they exist. And I’m sure they do things and have manatee agendas with manatee priorities and manatee action items. But I’m not sure they’re all that useful. What [...]
From a series of zoological wall hangings (you remember these from classrooms, don’t you?) found on Scientific Illustrations.
Viennese teacher Dr. Paul Pfurtscheller did many large-scale illustrations of living things, inside and out. Originally, they were just for the benefit of his own students – but they caught on.
“Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson answering the question, “What is your opinion of the Symphony of Science videos?”
Marine biology from the Diesel Age. Crowded organisms, barely visible through the equipment. (And I’m talking about the researchers.)
Photo from NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Historical Photo Archives, the Sette Collection.
The artist and writer William Beebe is better known for his deep sea explorations than his wattle portraiture. He studied at Columbia, but spent too much time exploring and collecting specimens to earn a degree there. Instead, he became a lecturer and employee of the Bronx Zoo. In 1916, he set up a research station in South America [...]
In 1867, the typewriter was a ridiculous leap in technology.
The editor of Punch anticipated the next step:
“Writing Superseded. — Mr. Pratt, of Alabama, is the inventor of a typewriting machine, lately exhibited to the London Society of Arts, which is said to print a man’s thoughts twice as fast as he can write them with [...]
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