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This is a press release from Oct. 26, 1995 announcing that the Brown University Department of Physics was installing a Cray EL98 and J916. ...

Commander Albert C. Gleaves U.S.N. of the Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, had a problem. The government had installed a new wirele...

The Radio Club at Brown University dates to the end of the First World War when the United States government lifted restrictions on the pri...

The Craigleith area of Ontario is well known for its abundance of fossils. In 1992 I visited this locality on the southern shore of the Geor...

As we saw in part 1 and part 2 of this series the typical measurements of sky brightness in Providence are between about 4.1 - 4.3 nelm (n...

In my previous post I began to analyze the data from the sky brightness meter at Ladd Observatory. Now we'll take a closer look at the ...

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer , William Gibson, 1984. At the La...

The invention of magnetic bubble memory was once seen as a revolutionary computer development - the wave of the future. It is now a nearly f...

As a young child I can remember my late grandfather operating a ham radio station in Chicago using surplus military equipment that he obtain...

"It is impossible not to conjecture a connection with the volcanic eruption in the Sunda Straits, by which, on Aug. 26, the island of ...