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Einstein and Roosevelt: a pivotal correspondence between two key voices at the time

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Einstein and Roosevelt: a pivotal correspondence between two key voices at the time

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In August 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it. Although he never worked directly on the atomic bomb, Einstein is often incorrectly associated with the advent of nuclear weapons.  He repeatedly reminded people, "I do not consider myself the father of the release of atomic energy. My part in it was quite indirect."

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Nuclear bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the impact of Einstein’s letter

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Nuclear bomb: Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the impact of Einstein’s letter

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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. "Woe is me."—Albert Einstein, upon hearing the news of the Hiroshima bombing. On August 9, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, Japan, three days after bombing Hiroshima. By the end of 1945, an estimated 200,000 people had died in the two cities.

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Remembering The Hiroshima And Nagasaki Bombings, 75 Years Later | Sunday TODAY

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Nuclear power: the quest for clean, green energy 

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Nuclear power: the quest for clean, green energy 

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Nuclear power is seen by many as part of the solution to low-carbon energy production in the fight against climate change. Watch this video to find out more about the technology and to hear people’s opinions on this source of energy.

Nuclear power plant

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Tommaso Marinetti: a leading figure in the Futurist movement

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Tommaso Marinetti: a leading figure in the Futurist movement

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Futurism had its official beginning with the publication of Marinetti’s “Manifeste de Futurisme” in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro (February 20, 1909).

The ‘Manifeste de Futurisme’ in Le Figaro, 1909

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Futurism: what was it and who was involved?

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Futurism: what was it and who was involved?

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Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It emphasized speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Some of its key figures included Tommaso Marinetti [8], Umberto Boccioni [7] and Giacomo Balla.

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Umberto Boccioni: The City Rises: a powerful image representative of these times

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Umberto Boccioni: The City Rises: a powerful image representative of these times

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This painting is considered the first true futurist work by Umberto Boccioni and portrays the construction of a new city with developments and technology.

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Painter Umberto Boccioni was among the leading theorists and practitioners of Futurism, the first Italian avant-garde movement of the twentieth century.

He was born October 19, 1882 in Reggio Calabria. At the beginning of the 1900s Boccioni moved to Rome, where he frequented Giacomo Balla's studio and grew close to the Italian "divisionist" movement that advocated putting colors directly on the canvas without mixing them first on a palette.
Disdainful of Italian culture, which he considered outmoded and provincial, Boccioni traveled widely before settling definitively in Milan in 1907.
Boccioni was fascinated by what he saw as a dynamic city at the height of industrial expansion. He painted Officine a Porta Romana and Mattino.

In La Città che sale he pulled away from "divisionism," focusing instead on synthesizing light and movement. He abandoned perspective: turbines of vertiginous color spun and dove through his painting. This represented his shift into Futurism.
In 1910, along with Gino Severini, Carlo Carrà, Giacomo Balla and Luigi Rùssolo, he signed on to a manifesto that abrogated ties to artistic tradition and promulgated the "aesthetic of speed," intended to represent the progress and dynamism of modern times.

Boccioni was intrigued by the synchronic relationship between matter: He fused movement, memories and sounds. In Visione simultanee, buildings were piled one on top of another to invoke a parallel geometry.
In later paintings, reality was increasingly filtered through the painter's mood and put onto the canvas transformed.
The human shape in the triptych of the "Stati d'animo," for example, is little more than quick, oblique brushstrokes when in motion, and vertical ones when at rest.

In 1912, Boccioni participated in the first Futurist group show in Paris. These years were marked by frenetic activity as he sought to synthesize form and color.
The same year, he published "A technical manual for Futurist sculpture," in which he applied Futurist experimentation to sculpture.

Even sculpted shapes showed differing kinds of dynamism: bulkiness created by movement; the persistence of images in the eye; the representation of space through the motion of a single body.
When World War One broke out, Boccioni headed for the front. He continued painting but abandoned the Futurist experiment, focusing instead on volume and monumentalism as they applied to the human form.

He died on August 16, 1916 following a bad fall from a horse. He was 33.
His artwork, all produced in less than a decade, represents a major Italian contribution to twentieth-century avant-garde art.

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Painter Umberto Boccioni was among the leading theorists and practitioners of Futurism, the first Italian avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. He was born October 19, 1882 in Reggio Calabria.

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The Model T: Henry Ford: the car that changed the way we move around for ever

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The Model T: Henry Ford: the car that changed the way we move around for ever

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During the Machine Age, travel by car was booming, largely in part to Henry Ford’s Model T. Watch this short video to find out more about the key effects this car had on technology and transport at the time.

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History of the Model T | The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation

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Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963): a philosopher and writer who worked to make sense of the changing times

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Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963): a philosopher and writer who worked to make sense of the changing times

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Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English novelist and critic gifted with an acute and far-ranging intelligence whose works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire. He remains best known for one novel, Brave New World (1932), a model for much dystopian science fiction that followed.  Brave New World is set in 2540 CE, which the novel identifies as the year AF 632. AF stands for “after Ford,” as Henry Ford’s assembly line is revered as god-like; this era began when Ford introduced his Model T.

Aldous Huxley’s home with an English Heritage blue plaque

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Daytona Beach, Florida: the setting for speed records in this age of technology and speed

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Daytona Beach, Florida: the setting for speed records in this age of technology and speed

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In 1927, Henry Seagrave set a world land speed record on the Daytona Beach Road Course 203.79 mph. This fascination with speed during this time drove people to break these speed records.

Some famous speed record cars which raced at Daytona Beach

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Radio technology: how did it impact communication and society as a whole

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Radio technology: how did it impact communication and society as a whole

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Technological advances during the Machine Age such as the radio, transformed how people communicated and how messages were spread across the nation. After World War I, some radio enthusiasts tried to establish an informal network across the UK until Peter Eckersley (cousin of Aldous Huxley [5]) took a more strategic approach and eventually became the first Chief Engineer of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).

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How the radio transmitter gave us the BBC I The Information Age Episode 3

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Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941): a famous writer from the turn of the past century

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Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941): a famous writer from the turn of the past century

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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th century authors and also a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Her works capture the changing times of the Modern Era.

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The Machine Age: when was it and who were some of the key people from that era?

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The Machine Age: when was it and who were some of the key people from that era?

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The Machine Age is an era that is considered to span from 1880 to 1945, and was considered to be at its peak in the time between the First and Second World Wars. Significant events, art and literature came from this era including works by Virginia Woolf, technology such as the radio, and historic records such as land speed records on Daytona Beach, Florida.