Book notes
Book Notes | In the Waves by Rachel Lance
Rachel Lance’s In the Waves investigates the mystery of the H. L. Hunley, combining Civil War history, underwater blast physics and forensic science.
History
“Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” - Abraham Lincoln
Book notes
Book Notes | Greek and Roman Art by Susan Woodford
On iteration, art, and a brief moment in history
Business
The Space Pen and the Moonwatch: Two technologies of the space race, two different markets
The famous story that NASA spent millions inventing a pen for space is largely a myth. Yet the underlying lesson may still hold. The engineering problem was real and solved, but the initial market for that solution turned out to be surprisingly small.
History
A Roman shopfront, two millennia on
From a Roman shop sign in Herculaneum to a modern photograph