As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the...
Technology
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
Thoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...
Beginning with a small psalm book that filled a basic need in the devotional lives of colonists,...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
In Europe between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, fireworks displays were performances that told a story or...
Research has found ways to detect deepfakes through flaws that can’t be fixed easily by the fakers....
People fall for fake photos regardless of whether they seem to come from Facebook or The New...
In 1915, a congressional bill was introduced to ban all civilian wireless activities from the airwaves. Static...
Genevieve Hitt, likely the first woman to serve the U.S. government as a cryptologist, broke ground in...
The Tanks were mentioned in some manuscripts after the coming of Islam to Yemen in the 7th...
Cultural, economic, and knowledge transfer occurred in spite of a seemingly long series of hurdles that had...
As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together...
Criminal justice reform advocates are sounding the alarm about the tech’s deception, and ramifications. We’ve all heard...
We can either take advantage of advances in technology to enhance human beings (never to go back),...
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
Humans have crafted garments for more than 40,000 years—and prehistoric tools suggest that warmth wasn’t their only...
A 2017 survey suggested almost half of Americans think that having sex with robots will become a...
War animals have been with us for a very long time. There’s a good chance you’ve come...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
Spreading false and distorted information – called “dezinformatsiya” after the Russian word for “disinformation” – is an...
Since the foundation of Versailles by King Louis XIV, the city often lacked water. In 1859 Versailles...
One area in which Archimedes excelled was in the design and construction of great war machines. By...
Wilbur Wright, American pioneer in aviation, and Paul Zens, famous French flier, preparing for two man flight...
Fire in the sky has always exerted a powerful hold on our imagination, even as early scientists...
In the 19th century, electricity held life in the balance, with the power to execute – or...
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century. By Ruth Garde / 04.12.2017...
An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit) Israel has become...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
Véronique Pagnier, Stanhope Press from Fontaine de Vaucluse, France, Creative Commons Share Alike (2011). One of the...