Hello, and welcome to the Season 2, Episode 16 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast!
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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 2, Episode 16: Fashion and Function
S02E16: Sewing spacesuits and the science lab at the Eiffel Tower.
Did you know that the Eiffel Tower doubles as art and science? It’s true! Also true: sewing a space suit is hard, and then your work gets shredded.
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Here are links to the sources and resources we used while researching this episode:
Links to research materials:
NASA Spacesuit Sewing:
Photo credit: Spacesuit seamstresses via ILC Dover
- The women who sewed the suits for the space race: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191219-the-women-who-sewed-the-suits-for-the-space-race
- How to Sew a Spacesuit: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-sew-a-spacesuit-5788241
- ILC Dover Spacesuits: https://www.ilcdover.com/aerospace/spacesuits/
- Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, by Nicholas de Monchau: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10530950-spacesuit
Eiffel Tower Science Lab:
- List of 72 Scientist Names: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/eiffel-tower-and-science
- Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
- Official Site of the Eiffel Tower: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument
- Science News for Students article: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/how-science-saved-eiffel-tower
- The Tallest Tower: Eiffel and the Belle Epoque by Joseph Harriss: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3252412-the-tallest-tower
- Scientific American Article from 1904: https://archive.org/details/scientific-american-1904-03-19/scientific-american-v90-n12-1904-03-19?view=theater
Further Reading:
- The Physics Behind the Design of the Eiffel Tower: https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1417530
- Delightfully arty 1962 tour of the Eiffel by his Grandson:
- Virtual Tour of the Eiffel Tower: https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/tour-eiffel/sAHt5Gv4YGH84Q?sv_lng=2.294758519443887&sv_lat=48.85821778334351&sv_h=77&sv_p=0&sv_pid=K-zqf3wT2zlWLXhztVc_CQ&sv_z=1.0000000000000002