Månadsarkiv: maj 2011
22 maj 2011
Hedy Lamarr, 1913-2000.
”Though known primarily for her extraordinary beauty and her celebrity in a film career as a major contract star of MGM’s ‘Golden Age’, Lamarr was also a scientist, inventor and mathematician who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications, a key to many forms of wireless communication from the pre-computer age to the present day.”
Under en bild om dagen
21 maj 2011
Sara Blomqvist fotad av Ben Toms, 2011
Valentine Cameron Prinsep: Il Barbagianni [=”Tornugglan”], 1863
Alltså tornuggla! Vilken vacker och kuslig fågel!
19 maj 2011
Samuel H. Gottscho: Empire State Building på öppningsdagen, 1931