Sci&Tech History

One of the sub-topics of this blog was labeled STS. An acronym for Science and Technology Studies, or sometimes also refer to Science, technology and Society. STS label was introduced around 1960s which in viewing relation between science, technology, and society, and how each of them influences the others, while its themes has been anticipated […]

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On Long Island, New York, the bridges over the parkways are extraordinarily low, having as little as nine feet of clearance at the curb. As an implication, cars that can past the parkways are private car with certain kind of height. Robert Moses, the bridge builder that works from 1920s to the 1970s in […]

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A friend of mine sent me the image above. An image that is constructed by our watching television culture.
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In Uganda, living with HIV/AIDS is become an every day experience. From UNAIDS report at the end of 1999, it is estimated that out of 24.5 million adults and children living with HIV/AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa from its total 34.3 million. In Uganda itself, the number was estimated 820,000 adults and children living with […]

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In the first half of the nineteenth century, Charles Babbage applied binary numbers to a calculating machine. In 1890, the binary system was developed by Hermann Hollerith which invented punch card, going back to an invention by the early nineteenth-century Frenchman J-M. Jacquard. The invention makes conversion from numbers into instructions possible. Several years later, […]

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Diesel start his invention with an idea to built a perfect engine working according Carnot’s thermodynamic principles and could occur without an increase in temperature by inventing new ways of injecting and burning fuel. What Diesel did is not as simple as turning paper and patent into a prototype, but also convinces other actors to […]

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What happened if a turkish astronomer dressed in his traditional national costume, demonstrate the existence of asteroid B 612 in front of his colleagues? In The Little Prince, a fiction book written by Saint-Exupery, the answer of the question are scorn and laughter. While when he dressed up with three-pieces suit(trousers, shirt and a tie), […]

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Nowadays, food safety is becoming an issue. Expired date, its composition, organic or not are few things that influence people decision, rather to buy a product or not. Food processing techniques which also influence the expired date develop along with human abilities. In 1870s, boron usages were widely used in milk, butter, and cream. Later, […]

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Another approach to describe how knowledge spread is by using translation models. Its concept can be observed by seeing how messenger RNA(mRNA) in a bacteria E.Coli works. The knowledge or information that was initiated by someone won’t spread and accepted, if there isn’t an agreement from the others. Translation process occur in sociology of translation, […]

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How can knowledge spread from one community onto another? How advertisements persuade people to buy their product? Gabrial Tarde(1895), a pioneer in doing innovation research, believed the human tendency to imitate fellow beings was the fundamental law of all social phenomena. By seeing it natural phenomena, diffusion was a net movement from high concentration to […]

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