Yesterday's Office

Antique Office Equipment Collecting:
# The slide rule on a tube
# Monarch set the price
# Rema a remade Odhner
# Marchant calculators: From pinwheel to SCM
# Extensive museum exhibit in former England hospital
# The right 'stuff' displays computer history
# Darryl Rehr, the past editor of ETCetera and an antique office expert, on The History Channel
# Log this: the slide rule's an antique
# Typewriter Collectors Convention 2000
# Watching milk-measuring calibration sparks interest
# Antique Telephone Counted Among Office Fixtures
# South African's collection includes The Millionaire calculator, Thacher slide rule
# Beck Speedograph: What do you know about this duplicator?
# Telautograph Forerunner to Modern Fax
# The Photocopier: First Image from Moss, Sulfur and a Handkerchief Rubbing
# German Devotes Virtual Museum to Teleprinters
# Chicago Typewriter Owned by Shipbuilder
# Iowan Plots History of Computers
# Mimeoscope Shows early 20th-century Technology
# Early newsrooms: Light-years from dullsville
# Portrait of an Early '50s Newsroom"

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Digital Cam media safe to fly with

Technocrat.net : "Recent tests found no evidence of X-ray scanner damage to digital camera media cards or to the images they hold. The tests of scanner models currently in use in the U.S. transportation industry were jointly conducted by the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A), the leading global association for the imaging industry; SanDisk Corporation, a manufacturer of digital media cards; and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). These findings mean that digital cameras and their image storage media can travel safely in either checked or carry-on bags, which will be reassuring to holiday travelers. And though they were not explicitly tested, it is likely that images on camera-phones will be safe in either situation as well. More care is needed for cameras with film, however, as the X-ray scanners for both checked and carry-on luggage can fog both developed and undeveloped film."

Artist turns animals into everyday objects

Ananova - A Chilean artist is making a name for herself with an exhibition in which stuffed animals are transformed into household objects. Artworks on display include a chick turned into a lamp, and 'sheep bag' - a lamb carcass fitted with handles. Artist Caterina Purdy says her exhibition at the Experimental Arts Centre in Santiago is intended to be humorous but also makes a serious point. She told Las Ultimas Noticias online: 'It is possible to see my work as something scary, but I find it beautiful. 'There is also irony and humour in my objects as well as a criticism of the way animals are treated by society.'"

At USDA, the Mouse Is in the House

(washingtonpost.com) : "Employees at the Department of Agriculture's main cafeteria were just sitting down to lunch on Friday when security guards ordered everyone in the huge eatery to leave. Al Qaeda? Bomb scare? No. Mouse droppings. The D.C. Department of Health closed the cafeteria for failing to pass inspection. Yes, the USDA, home to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the meat and poultry inspectors -- the agency that is part of the federal system for protecting the nation's food supply, was in violation of the D.C. Health Code. There were several citations, according to the inspection report, including: 'water leaking excessively' in the ceiling, employees not wearing hair restraints, and inadequate cleaning of the inside of ice machines, cabinets, surfaces and equipment. The biggest problem, however, seemed to be mouse droppings found everywhere -- in the dry storage room, by the salad bar, behind the ovens, near the serving line, ...

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