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#OnThisDay, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.

Fanny had been regarded by critics as 'too old' at 30, and nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife”. Yes, really. 🙄

Watch footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons

Fanny Blankers-Koen on the starting blocks of the cinder track at the London Olympics. She is a white woman with blonde hair in normal running gear for the time.

CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 18 hours ago

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.

Fanny had been regarded by critics as 'too old' at 30, and nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife”. Yes, really. 🙄

Watch footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons

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A Sweet Gentleman

@aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social · yesterday

I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.

"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."

"Newspapers imagined future cities lit by radium lamps, restaurants serving glow-in-the-dark radium cocktails and candy, radium fertilizer improving the output of farms, and doctors using radium to cure cancer forever."

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze

#AI #fad #bigtech #tech #history #pollution #science

Ad for a radium tonic cure from the New York Times of 1911.

A Sweet Gentleman

@aSweetGentleman@mstdn.social · yesterday

I knew the AI craze reminded me of something.

"With no understanding of the ill effects of radiation poisoning, radium became a fashionable trend, a medical cure-all, and an industrial wonder."

https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze

#AI #fad #bigtech #tech #history #pollution #science

Woozle Hypertwin and 8 others boosted

CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 days ago

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The Mk3 Benz Patent-Motorwagen - the first practical motor car. It's like a pram with an engine on it.

studio photo of Bertha Benz. She is a white woman with dark hair.

CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 days ago

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

OliverUv and 1 other boosted

CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

#OnThisDay, 2 Aug 1855, Elizabeth Ann Holman goes on trial in Plymouth, UK, for being a suspicious person because she was discovered to be a woman disguised as a man. The case is dismissed. As is a second charge against her for wearing trousers in 1858.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

newspaper cutting of the case detailing that she was charged for being a suspicious person. The highlighted text notes that she wore male attire "so that she could earn much higher wages as a man than she could have done otherwise".

CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 7 days ago

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.

https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

Harriet Quimby about to cross the English channel. She is a white woman in a silk flying suit. Her plane consists of a chair welded to a frame and very little else.

Newspaper headline reading 'woman awarded aerial licence' and confirming Harriet's name and the date

CarveHerName

@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 7 days ago

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.

https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

Stephen Shankland

@stshank@mstdn.social · last week

People today worry about data center power use, so here's a little history from one of the earliest computers: "With minimal cooling technology – two 20-horsepower blowers – ENIAC raised the room temperature to 50ºC when in operation and its 160kW energy consumption caused blackouts in the city of Philadelphia."

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/eniac-at-75-a-pioneer-of-computing/

#Computing #Power #History