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Nuclear Fission
The discovery of the nuclear chain reaction enabled the construction of atomic bombs and nuclear power plants—something never intended by the scientists.
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Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station
The Walchensee Hydroelectric Power Station was built between 1918 and 1924 under the supervision of Oskar von Miller, a Bavarian engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum.
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Permanent Disposal of Nuclear Waste
The large-scale testing of the atomic bomb in 1950 has left radioactive elements that could send strong, traceable chemical signals into our atmosphere for millennia.
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The Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)
In the 1980s, the findings of Paul Crutzen and his team were used as the basis for the Montreal Protocol’s ban on the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), identified as the primary cause for the hole in the ozone layer.
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Being in the Air: An Intellectual and Aesthetic History of Climate
This animated short film taps into the deep pain of the pandemic, experienced by millions of people all over the world.
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“his & nature’s expropriation”: Wetland Enclosure, Salvage Poetics, and Social Reproduction in Wendy Mulford’s East Anglia Sequence
Wendy Mulford’s poetry reflects on drainage, environmental loss, and social reproduction in the fens, reframing environmental history through a Marxist-feminist lens.
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Interview with Jemma Deer, author of Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Jemma Deer is interviewed on her new book, Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World.
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The Steam Engine
Steam power became the energy source for many machines and vehicles, making it cheaper and easier to produce commodities in large amounts.
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X-Rays
The discovery of the x-ray in 1895 marks the start of medical imagery for diagnostic purposes. The ability to look inside a living body revolutionized the way we look at medicine and human anatomy.
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Diesel Engine
In the early twentieth century, most ships were powered by coal and steam. The first diesel engine was built by Rudolf Diesel in 1897. It became part of almost all types of ships and a driving force of globalization.