Nicholas Surges
@nsurges.bsky.social
Emerging museum professional. MA Public History and Curatorial Studies. Him/him/il. Ottawa, ON. 🇨🇦
This is fascinating. It's one of the earliest types of wattmeter, designed by Thomas Edison. Instead of using a motor like later wattmeters, these early "chemical" wattmeters functioned through electrolysis.
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
This is fascinating. It's one of the earliest types of wattmeter, designed by Thomas Edison. Instead of using a motor like later wattmeters, these early "chemical" wattmeters functioned through electrolysis.
Working with more glass and ceramic insulators today. It's fantastic that even with insulators (which are well-represented in our larger collection), I'm still finding unique type samples.
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Working with more glass and ceramic insulators today. It's fantastic that even with insulators (which are well-represented in our larger collection), I'm still finding unique type samples.
I had been shopping this paper to journals during my MA, but now that I've graduated I figured it was time to upload it to a public repository and just get it out there.
It's a piece about antisemitic tropes in Weimar cinema, specifically "The Golem" and "Nosferatu".
It's a piece about antisemitic tropes in Weimar cinema, specifically "The Golem" and "Nosferatu".
Jewish Otherness in The Golem and Nosferatu
Cultural representations have a plasticity to their meaning, which is ascribed rather than inherent and is thus informed as much by the viewer’s own subjectivities as by the creator’s intentions. For ...
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August 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I had been shopping this paper to journals during my MA, but now that I've graduated I figured it was time to upload it to a public repository and just get it out there.
It's a piece about antisemitic tropes in Weimar cinema, specifically "The Golem" and "Nosferatu".
It's a piece about antisemitic tropes in Weimar cinema, specifically "The Golem" and "Nosferatu".
I was reading one of Gerald Brown's guides on non-glass insulators, and he included a letter from Continental Rubber Works.
According to this letter, these rubber insulators were introduced in part because bored hunters in rural areas used to use glass insulators for target practice.
According to this letter, these rubber insulators were introduced in part because bored hunters in rural areas used to use glass insulators for target practice.
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I was reading one of Gerald Brown's guides on non-glass insulators, and he included a letter from Continental Rubber Works.
According to this letter, these rubber insulators were introduced in part because bored hunters in rural areas used to use glass insulators for target practice.
According to this letter, these rubber insulators were introduced in part because bored hunters in rural areas used to use glass insulators for target practice.
This is a formal parliamentary petition to move the Canadian government and associated agencies off of X. Well worth it for fellow Canadians to sign.
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Petition e-5359 - Petitions
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March 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This is a formal parliamentary petition to move the Canadian government and associated agencies off of X. Well worth it for fellow Canadians to sign.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Weekend trip to Quebec City. Outside the Chateau Frontenac.
January 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Weekend trip to Quebec City. Outside the Chateau Frontenac.
Discovered some hitherto unnoticed markings on a galvanometer. This is a D'Arsonval-type, first developed in 1882. They utilized a stack of stationary magnets, which made the device less susceptible to stray magnetic fields.
January 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Discovered some hitherto unnoticed markings on a galvanometer. This is a D'Arsonval-type, first developed in 1882. They utilized a stack of stationary magnets, which made the device less susceptible to stray magnetic fields.
Something we unpacked at Ingenium while doing collections review.
This is a neon glow lamp with the image of a saint inside (possibly Saint Christopher). My guess is that this is one of those glow lamps that has two plates positioned too close together so that it flickers like a candle flame.
This is a neon glow lamp with the image of a saint inside (possibly Saint Christopher). My guess is that this is one of those glow lamps that has two plates positioned too close together so that it flickers like a candle flame.
January 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Something we unpacked at Ingenium while doing collections review.
This is a neon glow lamp with the image of a saint inside (possibly Saint Christopher). My guess is that this is one of those glow lamps that has two plates positioned too close together so that it flickers like a candle flame.
This is a neon glow lamp with the image of a saint inside (possibly Saint Christopher). My guess is that this is one of those glow lamps that has two plates positioned too close together so that it flickers like a candle flame.
Tickets are now on sale for our next edition of Naled Boys Reading, coming up this Monday, January 20th at LIVE! on Elgin.
I actually curated this show. The readings are the original source material that inspired some of Broadway's biggest hits.
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I actually curated this show. The readings are the original source material that inspired some of Broadway's biggest hits.
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Naked Boys Reading: “And All That Jazz!” (The Musical Theatre Show)
They get naked. They read. A different theme every month from Ottawa's trailblazing literary salon — since July 2017. (nakedboysreading.ca)
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January 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tickets are now on sale for our next edition of Naled Boys Reading, coming up this Monday, January 20th at LIVE! on Elgin.
I actually curated this show. The readings are the original source material that inspired some of Broadway's biggest hits.
nbr64.eventbrite.ca
I actually curated this show. The readings are the original source material that inspired some of Broadway's biggest hits.
nbr64.eventbrite.ca
A short piece I wrote for Ingenium's channel blog detailing some of my takeaways doing collections research with their musical instruments.
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“Mystery Music”: Digital Strategies for Collections Research
Canadian museums enjoy a strong reputation as authoritative and trustworthy sources of informatio
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January 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A short piece I wrote for Ingenium's channel blog detailing some of my takeaways doing collections research with their musical instruments.
ingeniumcanada.org/channel/arti...
ingeniumcanada.org/channel/arti...
Reposting this here.
It's a short piece I wrote for the online public history magazine Epoch about reading invisibility as a form of queer representation in institutional photography, specifically through an examination of the RCAF journal The Roundel.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/invisib...
It's a short piece I wrote for the online public history magazine Epoch about reading invisibility as a form of queer representation in institutional photography, specifically through an examination of the RCAF journal The Roundel.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/invisib...
Invisibility as LGBTQ+ Representation in the Canadian Air Force
During a research placement at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, I was struck by the seeming lack of visual sources c
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January 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposting this here.
It's a short piece I wrote for the online public history magazine Epoch about reading invisibility as a form of queer representation in institutional photography, specifically through an examination of the RCAF journal The Roundel.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/invisib...
It's a short piece I wrote for the online public history magazine Epoch about reading invisibility as a form of queer representation in institutional photography, specifically through an examination of the RCAF journal The Roundel.
www.epoch-magazine.com/post/invisib...
Hello folx!
My name is Nicholas. I'm an Ottawa-based museum professional currently doing collections research with Ingenium at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology.
In my spare time, I co-produce Ottawa's chapter of the international literary salon Naked Boys Reading.
My name is Nicholas. I'm an Ottawa-based museum professional currently doing collections research with Ingenium at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology.
In my spare time, I co-produce Ottawa's chapter of the international literary salon Naked Boys Reading.
January 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Hello folx!
My name is Nicholas. I'm an Ottawa-based museum professional currently doing collections research with Ingenium at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology.
In my spare time, I co-produce Ottawa's chapter of the international literary salon Naked Boys Reading.
My name is Nicholas. I'm an Ottawa-based museum professional currently doing collections research with Ingenium at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology.
In my spare time, I co-produce Ottawa's chapter of the international literary salon Naked Boys Reading.