'Sci / Tech Tourism' Category
The scientific tourist #27 — El Capitan
This weeks picture comes from a highway rest stop in west Texas — it’s of El Capitan, a formation at the very south end of the Guadalupe Mountains…
The scientific tourist #26 — Cliff Palace
This week’s picture is another one from Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado — it’s of Cliff Palace, the largest cliff dwelling in North America…
Casual Friday — Babbage’s Difference Engine #2
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) was a computer pioneer who invented some interesting (and quite workable) mechanical computers, but never got around to actually building them…
The scientific tourist #25 — Echo (echo… echo… echo…)
For this week’s science-related travel image, we’re going back to the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamagordo. It’s a life-size model of the Echo II satellite in its launch canister
The scientific tourist #24 — Lowell’s globes
This week’s “sciencey” image comes from the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona…
