STEM ≥ technology heritage
@design_RG What I'm doing is experimental. The subjects of my posts are unlike anything else I see.
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Yes, I can use CW in the way you propose. This is what I wrote:
"STEM ≥ technology heritage"
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Looking ahead, my best guess is that there would be little to no interest in a post about a Meiji era lighthouse at Shimonoseki which has been highlighted as a UNESCO World Heritage site -- see Wikipedia "Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sites_of_Japan%27s_Meiji_Industrial_Revolution:_Iron_and_Steel,_Shipbuilding_and_Coal_Mining
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I'm not especially interested in lighthouses, but this kind of superficial research creates a minimal foundation for my plan to look a little bit more closely at just one of the o-yatoi gaikokujin.
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"In addition to building lighthouses—the reason for his deployment to Japan from Edinburgh—Brunton drew the first detailed maps of Yokohama; planned its sewage, street, gas light and telegraph systems; and built its first iron bridge, for which he received an audience with the emperor, in 1871." -- see British Chamber of Commerce in Japan, "Scotland and Yokohama sign joint action pact," July 27, 2018. https://bccjapan.com/news/scotland-and-yokohama-sign-joint-action-pact/
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Technology transfer in the Meiji era produces consequences that are easy to grasp.
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The undated image below shows Honcho-dori in Yokohama, I'm guessing the poles on the street are for a telegraph line -- and if so, then Brunton designed and supervised their placement.
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Also, I think I see a gas light. If so, this is Brunton's work, too. So, I'm guessing the street scene is from sometime after 1871.
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QUESTION: Does superficial research into technology transfer in Japan in 1868-1912 suggest ways to parse the subject in current conditions -- for example, what does compare-and-contrast tell us about the expansion of cell phones and online banking in India? Or what about Chinese harbor infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka and/or Pakistan?
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QOTO = Question Others to Teach Ourselves?
STEM ≥ technology heritage
@chikara Thank you for another nice and informative post. I hope you didn't mind my suggestion of using the CW as a presentation tool.
Your posts are unique and interesting - I am very interested in History of Technology, which in itself is a large field of study.
The gravures showing life in other times are precious, giving an insight into things gone now.
You could consider setting up a Blog to hosts those posts.
I have been reaserching that for my own posts, to collect and consolidate things.
Dr Freeman had suggested Write.freely as a platform, and I got started into it.
The basic experience is simple and stark; similar to a plain text editor, the words are the most valued content.
One can concentrate on them and not worry about text formatting or the myriad tools and options in more complex software like WordPress.
I will share my experiences, and my blog posts there can be notified into mastodon, as Write.freely is fully fediverse compatible. Pretty neat.
Adding images can be done, but it requires a little HTML tagging, img src: type of things.
Please continue with the varied posts and enlighten us on Japanese history, culture and technology development.
