What the Ancients Did for UsDid you know the ancient Greeks measured the circumference of the earth, invented robots and the first...
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Primate Activity with Stones Hints at How Human Tool Use EvolvedStudying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
Alan Turing: Computer and Mathematics Pioneer Jailed for LoveAs a result of anti-homosexuality laws in the UK in the 1950s, Alan was charged with gross...
Why a Computer Will Never Be Truly ConsciousBrain functions integrate and compress multiple components of an experience which simply can’t be handled in the...
A History of Science and Technology in ChinaThe first recorded observations of comets, solar eclipses, and supernovae were made in China. Introduction The history...
The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born50 years ago there was no expectation of where the achievement would lead, and the real impact...
How the U.S. Census Kickstarted America’s Computing IndustryAs the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the...
The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble BurstAs the new millennium began, greed, ignorance, and misplaced hopes within the tech world nearly destroyed the...
Important Inventions of the Industrial RevolutionThe inventions themselves were not an immediately profitable investment throughout many parts of Europe during the 18th...
Chariots in Ancient Hunting, Sports, and WarfareHorses were not used for transport, ploughing, warfare or any other practical human activity until quite late...
5 Milestones That Created the Internet, 50 Years after the First Network MessageThe first internet communication was underwhelming, thanks to a computer crash. But a lot has happened since...
The Internet at 50: Four Steps in Transforming the Digital WorldThe internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex,...
Ancient Mesopotamian Science and TechnologyThe Sumerians first explored the practice of the scientific hypothesis. Introduction Mesopotamian science and technology developed during...
Ancient Greek Scroll’s Hidden Contents Revealed through Infrared ImagingThe scroll was discovered and painstakingly unrolled in 1795. More than 200 years ago, scholars glued the...
Amelia Earhart Would Have a Hard Time Disappearing in 2019Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane...
Thoreau’s View of the RailroadThoreau’s attitude toward the railroad was foremost one of ambivalence. What’s The Railroad To Me? What’s the...
How Google, Apple and Microsoft Will Change Education in the FutureTechnology is the driving factor that will change the face of education in the years to come....
Ancient Israelite TechnologyLooking at ancient Israeli construction and architecture, writing, industrial tools, and weapons of war. Introduction Technology enabled...
H.G. Wells and the Uncertainties of ProgressIn addition to the numerous pioneering works of science fiction by which he made his name, H....
Camera and Locomotive: Two 18th-Century Technologies Explored TogetherTwo defining technologies of nineteenth-century America—railroads and photography—developed largely in parallel and brought about drastic changes in...
Charles Babbage and the Difference EngineMany machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
Disaster Ahead: How Danube Floods Created Telegraph NetworksTelecommunication would prove to be a powerful agent of change. Rivers flood, some more regularly than others....
Five Moon-Landing Innovations That Changed Life on EarthThe technologies behind weather forecasting, GPS and even smartphones can trace their origins to the race to...
“Nancy Grows Up,” the Media Age, and the Historian’s CraftIf, as historians, we took such a turn, we could open up new horizons for historical scholarship....
Fighting Talk: First World War TelecommunicationsAs a result of the need to exchange information faster and more efficiently, telecommunications advanced rapidly. As...
Morse Code Marks 175 Years and CountingMorse code works whether flashing a spotlight or blinking your eyes – or even tapping on a...
A Pressing Matter: Ancient Roman Food TechnologyResearchers show that an Ancient Roman text has long been misinterpreted, shedding new light on how innovation...
The Invention of Wireless CryptographyIn 1915, a congressional bill was introduced to ban all civilian wireless activities from the airwaves. Static...
Pioneers of U.S. Military Cryptology: Colonel Parker Hitt and Genevieve Young HittGenevieve Hitt, likely the first woman to serve the U.S. government as a cryptologist, broke ground in...
When Television Was a Medical DeviceRetracing the history of media technologies in the practice of medicine. Reba Benschoter readied herself to speak...