Category: history of technology

• Clockmaking, Early Modern Style

  Posted on Dec 21st

  Illustrations from Derham’s Artificial clock-maker (1734).

• Special Exhibit Hours for UW-Madison Science Expeditions 2019

  Posted on Apr 4th

  We’re delighted to be one of the “destinations for exploration” in this year’s UW-Madison Science Expeditions, the annual campus-wide open house that […]

• Draining Land, 18th-Century Style

  Posted on Sep 3rd

  As Madison and Dane County cope with widespread flooding, we turn to earlier examples of water control – an 18th-century illustration of […]