Index of Long Reads

The Index

1. 01 The Barograph at Cape VerityInstruments L. Ferreira — 12
   

   For sixty-one years a brass drum recorded the pressure of a harbour nobody watched.

2. 02 Nine Ways to Measure a FogReportage H. Okonkwo — 24
   

   Visibility is the only weather that must be judged by a human being.

3. 03 Salt, Iron, PatienceProfile M. Dahl — 31
   

   The Bergen workshop that has hand-cut ship compasses since 1878.

4. 04 The Quietest Room in EuropeAcoustics S. Petrova — 40
   

   Engineers describe the sound their own bodies make when everything stops.

5. 05 A Grammar of Tide TablesHistory R. Whitcombe — 52
   

   The tide was predicted by a machine of forty brass pulleys.

6. 06 Notes Toward a Slower MapCartography J. Aalto — 61
   

   What a surveyor sees that a drone cannot, across 340 kilometres of chalk.

7. 07 The Keeper Who Kept NothingArchive C. Bright — 74
   

   Nineteen years of logs, then a bonfire. His daughter explains why.

8. 08 Twelve Degrees of RustMaterials P. Iyer — 88
   

   A colour taxonomy for corrosion, assembled by a bridge inspector.

9. 09 Where the Rivers Are Named TwiceInvestigation T. Marchetti — 96
   

   Two surveys, ninety years apart, disagree about a valley.

10. 10 Instrument, Witness, RumourCriticism A. Sørensen — 108
    

    On the difference between a reading, a memory and a story.