As the new millennium began, greed, ignorance, and misplaced hopes within the tech world nearly destroyed the...
Technology
The inventions themselves were not an immediately profitable investment throughout many parts of Europe during the 18th...
Horses were not used for transport, ploughing, warfare or any other practical human activity until quite late...
The first internet communication was underwhelming, thanks to a computer crash. But a lot has happened since...
The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex,...
The Sumerians first explored the practice of the scientific hypothesis. Introduction Mesopotamian science and technology developed during...
The scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane...
Thoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...
Technology is the driving factor that will change the face of education in the years to come....
Looking at ancient Israeli construction and architecture, writing, industrial tools, and weapons of war. Introduction Technology enabled...
In addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H....
Two defining technologies of nineteenth-century America—railroads and photography—developed largely in parallel and brought about drastic changes in...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
Telecommunication would prove to be a powerful agent of change. Rivers flood, some more regularly than others....
The technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
If, as historians, we took such a turn, we could open up new horizons for historical scholarship....
As a result of the need to exchange information faster and more efficiently, telecommunications advanced rapidly. As...
Morse code works whether flashing a spotlight or blinking your eyes – or even tapping on a...
Researchers show that an Ancient Roman text has long been misinterpreted, shedding new light on how innovation...
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...
Retracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...
Mathematicians have known how to solve something called an S-unit equation for several years. However, the process...
The Renaissance period (c. 1300-1600 CE) in European countries is renowned for path-breaking and rapid developments and...
A century ago, a three-minute call from New York City to San Francisco on a landline cost...
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’ From “lol” to “brb,” the...
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are...
Preserving foodstuffs by mechanical refrigeration became an industrial possibility only in the 1870s and 1880s. The refrigerator...
The joint U.S.-Canada project turned the iconic waterfall into infrastructure designed to create both power and beauty....