'Dst Ii0SC0PE which he devised and now demonstrated. The havr^ent shown was the outcome of a difficulty which must te?u.presented ^tse^ to most of those who were engaged in the Ing of clinical medicine. He meant the difficulty of Hor ain'n? and of getting students to hear correctly the lu and abnormal physical sounds produced by the heart, 3ffiSS'-etC' teacher was frequently annoyed by a studen...

Dr Fahmy showed a specimen of carcinoma of the body of the uterus removed from a woman, aged 58, who had one child thirty years ago and whose menopause occurred at the age of 40. The patient was well till three years ago when she noticed the onset of a whitish leucorrhoeal discharge which gradually became more marked. Twelve months ago there was very slight bleeding at irregular intervals for a...

Dr A. Bruce showed a new form of portable galvanic battery. The box (Fig. 1) measures 7f inches long, 5 inches broad, by 4? inches deep, and with its contents weighs only 4| pounds. The box consists of two parts, an upper and a lower (Figs. 1 and 4), of which the lower contains the cells (Figs. 3 and 4), and the upper (Figs. 1, 2, and 4) the elements. The cells (Fig. 3, and seen in antero-poste...

London's Science Museum has this summer launched the most ambitious project in its 140-year history with a new £50 million extension featuring a key exhibition on life science. With funds from the country's national lottery and the medical research charity, the Wellcome Trust, the museum has built a new Wellcome wing to add to its unique 250-year-old collection of technology. The new wing aims ...

The article analyzes the humanistic basis of expo-design in conjunction with the ideological problems of modern design and the causes of their occurrence. It reveals the potential of mobile exhibition for social transformation in terms of its structural and ideological aesthetic content. It substantiates the effectiveness of expo-design expression’s artistic and aesthetic means in viewer person...

In this essay, Prof. Pérez-Gómez explains the themes and ideas behind this unusual exhibition, and the special role that the Osler books will play. During the summer of 2001, twelve precious volumes from the collections of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine will be on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, as part of the exhibition Architecture and the Cloud of Numbers: Betw...

Measuring pitch is one of the most important but also most difficult tasks in experimental phonetics. It is interesting to study how the difficulties have been solved in the times before the computer was introduced in the phonetic laboratories. In this paper, this is discussed using a number of exhibits of the acoustic-phonetic collection of the Dresden University. There will be a small exhibit...

In 2010, the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (ICS-FORTH) and the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (AMTh) collaborated towards the creation of a special exhibition of prototypical interactive systems with subjects drawn from ancient Macedonia, named “Macedonia from fragments to pixels”. The exhibition comprises seven interactive systems bas...

1 This paper deals with an explorative student project which was conducted as part of a consumer research project on gender in design. In the project master students in design explored and reflected on gender issues through practice, and the resulting objects were assembled into a public exhibition. Departing from gender theory we describe and reflect on the experiences of the students and the ...