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Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
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The art of scientific glassblowing
Exciting things happen when art, craft, engineering and science collide. Glassblower Gayle Price is proof of that.
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“Above resistant pavements, I floated”
In this extract from ‘Living with Buildings and Walking with Ghosts’, walk with Iain Sinclair through the streets of London.
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Newall's flexible asbestos strip : simply spiral the strip around the pipe and you will foil the severest frost / Newall's Insulation Company.
Newall's Insulation Company.Date: [1940?]- Books
A study of the problem of sound nuisance and sound insulation in blocks of dwellings I : sound insulation measurements, considered in connection with the opinions of house occupants regarding noise nuisance / by C. Bitter and P. van Weeren.
Bitter, C.Date: 1955- Books
Design of insulated buildings for various climates / by Tyler Stewart Rogers ; assisted by Paul A. Siple [and others].
Rogers, Tyler Stewart.Date: [1951]
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Occulta philosophia oder Coelum Sapientum et Vexatio Stultorum. Darinnen ordentlich, deutlich, und gründlich, als noch von keinem geschehen, gezeiget wird, wie man zu dem acidösischen Solventen und wahren hermetischen Wissenschaft gelangen soll. Wobey zugleich eine sehr curiöse Nachricht von dem Leben des Auctoris und einer Bande Adeptorum befindlich ist. Jezo zum erstennmahl aus einem ... Manuscript ... / zu Nutz heraus gegeben. Von L.H.J.V.H.J.D.
Orvius, Ludwig Conrad.Date: [1737]
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