Photo of a small box containing various kinds of legacy media including floppy disks, Zip disks, optical disks, and thumb drives

PSA on the ever changing technology needs in archives to keep up with changing formats coming into collections #ArchiveTechnology #Archive30

Double Rail. Illustration of a double rail system with a train wheel. Explanation of how the double rail system works

It's #ArchiveTechnology, 1850s style! Writing from Boston in 1858, Thomas Doane lays out the double rail system and its claims to superiority. #Archive30 #railroad

#Archive30 #ArchiveTechnology Joseph Sankey of Bilston were at the forefront of providing component parts for the electrical industry at a time when this was still exciting new technology. @arascot.bsky.social @postcardjim.bsky.social #GKNarchive #WinterbourneHouseandGarden

#archive30 #day13

Without #archivetechnology we wouldn't have this snap of Lister on his sledge, outside GRI in 1867 contemplating all things antisepsis - cows, sewage, cholera, carbolic acid & how to persuade the non believers that he is definitely onto something...😜

@arascot.bsky.social

A crochet stag sits in front of a laptop with empty VHS boxes to the side looking at different moving images whilst digitising

Godric helped digitise some VHS tapes from the Digital Equipment Corporation collection recently. They will be uploaded to our online digital repository. You can discover other digital archives in the repository online rdguk.info/vqecO #ArchiveTechnology #Archive30

Large blue display boards with a Geiger counter (circled in yellow) large windows in the background - ward West 1A

Page from the 1946 Annual Report

Front page of the 1946 Annual Report

Paragraph from the 1946 annual report

Day 13 #Archive30

#ArchiveTechnology

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Here is some technology from 1946, the Geiger counter, discovered in an old cupboard is circled in yellow ☢️
I do wonder if it’s the one mentioned or a later one 🧐
Extract from the 1946 Annual Report

Thanks to Angela for the reports

Colour photograph of five floppy disks, two CDs and one USB drive.

It only seems like 5 minutes ago that we were saving work on floppy disks, and now computers don’t even have CD drives anymore! A big part of #DigitalPreservation is transferring data from obsolete storage so it can still be accessed in the future.

#ArchiveTechnology

Black and white photograph showing two men wearing white striped overalls in a workshop full of machinary. One is working at a piece of machinary and the other is working at a desk covered in instruments and tools. [RLHLH/P/2/31]

Much modern medical equipment is mass-produced, single-use, and disposable. But historically if staff needed pieces of equipment the Royal London Hospital had a workshop for making and adapting medical tools onsite as seen in this photo from the 1950s

#ArchiveTechnology

#Archive30 Day 13 - #ArchiveTechnology 💻

@arascot.bsky.social @falklandsinuk.bsky.social @arasat.bsky.social

A small grey floppy disk, with a red circle in middle. The disk is in a plastic case with Canon branding on the top and 'Video Floppy Disk VF-50". There is a label on the disk that is upside down that reads "Woods Mill".

A small grey floppy disk, with a red circle in middle. The disk is in a plastic case with Canon branding on the top and 'Video Floppy Disk VF-50". There is a label on the disk that is upside down that reads "Woods Mill". The case is opened and there is further branding with a black and white theme with some technical specs for the disk.

The #Archive30 theme today is #ArchiveTechnology and we have the lesser spotted video floppy disk. Video floppy disks were introduced in the early 1980s and were developed by Sony. They were primarily used for still images that were stored as still frames of videos but there was a later data variant

Photographs of the visualiser and lap top set up with a folder of documents for a digital appointment

#Archive30 #ArchiveTechnology @arascot.bsky.social
MS Teams and visualiser technology means you can access our collections from anywhere in the world by booking a digital appointment.
Email us to find out more archives@soton.ac.uk

Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveTechnology - so we're sharing this Lecia camera (and all it's attachments) that was used on Everest expeditions in the 1930s #cameras #photography

Day 13 #Archive30
Simple but effective, hygrometers are key pieces of #ArchiveTechnology here at #RCPI - Used to measure humidity, which can be detrimental to archives 💧 Our quarantine store hygrometers are checked regularly to make sure our fragile items are safe and sound!
@arascot.bsky.social

Great uncle Len. A commercial traveller looking like a mobster!

Lots of great aunts a g grandad and grandparents there

Great grandad Joe was a pillar of society. On his way to a fete no doubt to open it.

Off for a trip in a jalopy!

#Archive30 is #ArchiveTechnology
My family out and about in these new fangled motor cars!
#FamilyHistory

Great uncle Len. A commercial traveller looking like a mobster!

Lots of great aunts a g grandad and grandparents there

Great grandad Joe was a pillar of society. On his way to a fete no doubt to open it.

Off for a trip in a jalopy!

#Archive30 is #ArchiveTechnology
My family out and about in these new fangled motor cars!
#FamilyHistory

Diagram of a Humphrey pump at the King George V Reservoir, Chingford, from 'Inauguration of the Chingford Reservoir', Metropolitan Water Board (1913).

Title page of presentation copy of 'Inauguration of the Chingford Reservoir', Metropolitan Water Board (1913). At top is an inscription to Walthamstow Public Library, from W Tyler, member of the Water Board for Walthamstow.

Extract from description of the Humphrey pumps at the King George V Reservoir, Chingford, from 'Inauguration of the Chingford Reservoir', Metropolitan Water Board (1913).

Humphrey pumps at King George V Reservoir, Chingford: diagram & extract of description from 'Inauguration of the Chingford Reservoir', Metropolitan Water Board, 1913. H A Humphrey's 1909 design won two Grands Prix at the Brussels Exhibition 1910. @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveTechnology #Archive30

A South Wales Record Society book 'Llandaff Episcopal Acta, 1140-1287,' edited by David Crouch

Today's #Archive30 is #ArchiveTechnology - but technology is not always modern. There ws a mill at Mathern near Chepstiw in C12 - we know this because its tithes belonged to Chepstow Priory and were agreed by the bishop. Llandaff Episcopal Acta at www.southwalesrecordsociety.co.uk/05.htm

IBM internal floppy drive which reads 5.25-inch disks

IBM internal floppy drive which reads 5.25-inch disks

💾 Many older digital carriers require hardware that is no longer being made, so we need items such as this old internal floppy drive to read the 5.25-inch disks in our collections.

❇️ We control this drive with something called a Greaseweazle adapter.

#ArchiveTechnology #archive30

MP of the Month: Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-1888), pioneering telegraph engineer An important aspect of our study of the reformed Commons is the degree to which representatives of science and industry were incorporated into the legislature during a period of great economic expa…

For #Archive30 #ArchiveTechnology we are looking at one of the many MPs who had a scientific or industrial background. Read more here about Charles Tilston Bright, MP for Greenwich and a pioneer in electric telegraphy: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2019/02/20/m...

Woman on a car park in front of trees, wearing a striped on duty armband and the 1946 'Bather' uniform with its peaked forage cap. She holds and looks down into a large personal radio with its aerial extended, with a large holder for it clipped to her waistbelt.

WPC Margaret Raymond became the first woman in the Met's Special Patrol Group, the 1961 predecessor of today's Territorial Support Group. Here she holds an early personal radio, nicknamed a staggery shouty for its weight & poor reception! #ArchiveTechnology #Archive30

#DMUat155 Eeeek... urrghh... eeech... 🎶 That’s the sound of us d/l ing a flyer for Leicester Poly Department of Engineering and Manufacture, c. 1990! 💾🖨️❤️ the @dmuleicester.bsky.social retro tech on the cover for @arascot.bsky.social #ArchiveTechnology for #Archive30 🚀
#ThrowbackTech #alumni #STEM