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They Built This City

By : Chris Torres | Wed, February 29, 2012

San Francisco experienced such a population boom during the Gold Rush that it had to physically expand using landfill created atop the scuttled, docked ships of stranded prospectors who came here from around the world but failed to strike it rich.... More »
Future Motive Power Reveals Tesla's Electrical Intensity

By Lily Janiak | Tue, January 17, 2012

Future Motive Power, Mugwumpin's site-specific exploration of the life and ideas of inventor Nikola Tesla, is billed as, among other things, the last opportunity for spectators to explore the unrehabi... More »
Past and Future, Set in Stone

By : Jessica Hilo | Wed, January 11, 2012

What’s past is prologue: If the Old Mint is stands as a testament to our future, it is one with a resilient and enduring spirit. It was commissioned by Congress in 1852 to accommodate the needs of a growing gold rush economy, and it swiftly became... More »
Underground Transmission

By Lily Janiak | Wed, January 04, 2012

Nikola Tesla and the San Francisco Old Mint comprise an odd parallel. The inventor, a golden boy of the Gilded Age, pioneered technology in electricity and electromagnetism, yet he ended his life in poverty and obscurity. The “Granite Lady,” meanw... More »

They Built This City