Historian Albrecht Classen got so tired of hearing people blithlely assert that chastity belts were ever a thing that he wrote The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process , explaining how a 15th century hoax that appeared in a manuscript that also feature fart jokes and devices for making people invisible became canon. Read the rest
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Chastity belts were a joke, then a metaphor, then a hoax
Greg sez, “This project is using a number of computational photography techniques to document Charles Babbage’s ‘Difference Engine No 2’ for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. There are interactive gigapixel images for the four cardinal views of the device available to view.” Babbage Difference Engine in Gigapixel ( Thanks, Greg ! )
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Gigapixel images of Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine #2