Results for "Asia"
Keeping up with our #Volunpeers – SIA’s Transcription Center Accomplishments
- Date: September 14, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: When it comes to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, there’s always more to discover, more material with which to engage. It can be easy to lose track of just how much our crowd of #volunpeers accomplished and why it is so important to us. We’re not done yet, but after four years, it’s a good time to take a step back and see what has been accomplished through the effort of
Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help
- Date: February 26, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
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Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace
- Date: September 19, 2019
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.
Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Date: November 28, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the