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Technology
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
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...
Medieval townsfolk needed very different sorts of technologies than did rural farmers, and they eagerly adopted tools...
CSIRAC was originally built in Sydney by the CSIRO before being transferred to Melbourne University. Melbourne University,...
Noria Waterwheel / Wikimedia Commons The fundamental processes of agriculture, pottery making, and cloth making, plus language,...
Waterwheel, Darley Mill Centre / Wikimedia Commons Exploring the idea that we must think of technology in much...
Water wheel at Molino de la Albolafia, Córdoba / Photo by Elliott Brown, Wikimedia Commons We may assume...
The coils winding facility building in France, where a global effort to build the ITER fusion energy...
A particularly fruitful moment for technological innovation? Viktor M Vasnetsov Not all technologies are created equal. Researchers devised...
Teeming with secrets… edella/Shutterstock European scientists had pioneered a technique for reading papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum without unrolling...
Ben Birchall/PA Wire From sundials to atomic clocks, a journey through the way humans have measured time. By Dr. Kenneth Grattan...
By Dr. Marcus Popplow / 07.06.2017 Professor of the History of Technical-Scientific Civilization Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)...
By Dr. David Blanke Joe B. Frantz Associate Professor of History Texas A&M University-Corpus Christie U.S. history textbooks...
Visualization of the proposed SPARC tokamak experiment. Using high-field magnets built with newly available high-temperature superconductors, this...
Is this machine adding an antenna to the fabric? Hindrik Johannes de Groot/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Asimina Kiourti /...
Frederic Bazille’s Studio 9 Rue de la Condamine (left) and Norman Rockwell’s Shuffleton’s Barber Shop (right). The...
Antonio Gramsci, Creative Commons By Dr. Francesca Antonini Postdoctoral Researcher Luigi Einaudi Foundation Abstract Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)...
Hermann Von Helmoltz By Dr. M. Norton Wise Professor Emeritus of History University of California, Los Angeles...
A photograph of the War Scroll, found in Qumran Cave 1, photographed by Eric Matson of the...
By Dr. Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman / 10.03.2017 Alexander: Professor of Psychology...
What’s the link between technology and consciousness? AlexLMX/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Subhash Kak / 12.07.2017 Regents Professor of Electrical...
Is this the future of human identity? Luke James Ritchie/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Jungwoo Ryoo / 11.08.2017 Professor of...
TV control room in Toronto / Photo by Loozrboy, Wikimedia Commons Technology is changing society at breakneck...
‘You spoke of Hope surpassing Home, I thought that Hope was Home – a misapprehension of architecture.’ Emily Dickinson...
Dare you ride the Gravitron? Photo by Daniel X O’Neill/Flickr By Dr. David Munns / 10.20.2017 Professor of History...
Could scanning a QR code be an invitation to malware? Zapp2Photo/Shutterstock.com By Dr. Jeremy Straub / 10.11.2017 Assistant...