Trip: New York Historical Society

      In march 30, 2016, the digital design class had a WBL requirement trip to the New York Historical Society along with Ms. Ramirez and Ms. Deebrah. The trip began after 3rd period ended. We ride the subway from the E train first, then we transferred to the C and got of at 72 st. Before we when to the museum, we walked around central park and had lunch there. Ms. Ramirez talked to us about the famous explorer that was just in front of the central park and the place right across where John Lennon passed away, on that ground, it says "imagine."

     After lunch we moved on to the museum. Right after we go there, we got to watch a short movie about the evolution and history of New York City. What is special and unique about that 20 minute file was that it have separated projector screen that moved up and down to match the video which helped to show additional effects and can show different images at the same time. We then moved on to the Silicon City part of the museum will it shows the history and evolution of computing technology. Some of the exiting technology we saw was the Punched Card System invented by Herman Hollerith in 1890 to help calculate the census 7 years faster than the original. The mouse from the 1950's that was programmed to navigate a maze using binary coding. And many of the inventions of IBM, one of the many technology leading company at the time such as the storage devices and the old version of the computers we use. There were also networking devices, gaming devices like the Tennis for Two, type writers, and music devices.


      According to the guide, navigation of technology used to be jobs that suit women more until it had became very advanced. She also said that New York City used to be the center of development of technology, it was only later that it had shift to LA. There was so much to learn there, but we had only about an hour at the to stay at the museum, so it ended here. It was not bad.