{"id":6995,"date":"2011-10-29T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/another-treasure-trove-the-royal-societys-archive\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:03:53","slug":"another-treasure-trove-the-royal-societys-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/another-treasure-trove-the-royal-societys-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Treasure Trove: The Royal Society&#8217;s Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kiteimage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 256px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kiteimage.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668854891533468978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;m a big fan (wanna-be really) of The Royal Society. In SolderSmoke 138 I noted that Isaac Newton (former Society president) seems to have had The Knack. And when I was in London one of the major perks of my job was that I occasionally got to visit the Society&#8217;s headquarters. Bill Bryson recently edited a book about the Royal Society &#8212; in his intro he noted that they have always been a very international group (just like us!)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Several readers wrote in with the happy news that the Society&#8217;s 350 year archive has been placed on-line. Here it is: <\/span><br \/><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/site\/authors\/free-archive.xhtml\">http:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/site\/authors\/free-archive.xhtml<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan (wanna-be really) of The Royal Society. In SolderSmoke 138 I noted that Isaac Newton (former Society president) seems to have had The Knack. And when I was in London one of the major perks of my job was that I occasionally got to visit the Society&#8217;s headquarters. Bill Bryson recently edited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/29\/another-treasure-trove-the-royal-societys-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Treasure Trove: The Royal Society&#8217;s Archive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","category-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/6997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}