13 Dionysius Lardner and early steam power technology
815 In which a bag-lady spells out my fears
1830 Reading the 1836 Saturday Magazine. [submarine, John Holland, Simon Lake, WW-I, naval warfare, peace, Century Magazine, 1915, Hunley, Housatonic, Lusitania, Walter Schweiger, stability, Navy]
The last word in AD 1408.
[James David Frobes, James Clerk Maxwell, Macedonio Melloni, heat radiation, infra-red, University of Edinburgh, viscous movement of glaciers, earth science, geology, meteorology, quantum physics, biography, Max Plank, quantum mechanics, physics, Louis Agassiz, Aar, viscoplastic]
495 Srinivas Ramanujan: an inexplicable mathematical genius
2093 The Posillipo Tunnel, or Crypta Napoletana -- a subway to the underworld
[flight, war, WW-1, airplane, synchronizer mechanism, Eindecker]
2549 Cahokia, an Ancient American Metropolis
427 Printer's marks & devices: brands of the new information age
1919 Mobius and his strip: an abstract spur to applied mathematics
657 Order out of Chaos: The computer takes us where mathematics could not
2938 Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth
[ELIZA, Weizenbaum, psychotherapy, artificial intelligence, chatterbot]
[musical round, canon, fugue, Bach, Pachelbel, Bach’s Crab Canon, Pachelbel Canon, Baroque music]
[prime numbers, twin primes conjecture, number theory, Yitang Zhang]
942 Medieval masons give us another view of mathematics
2080 China: A case history in the survival/nonsurvival of invention
1918 Cooperation and fairness: Enforcing the Golden Rule
[boats, yachts, sailing, sails, racing, keel, Australia, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, wings]
[quantum theory, quantum entanglement, spooky action at a distance, Copenhagen Interpretation, Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen, Schrödinger, EPR paper]
1869 The snowflakes of yesteryear, and today
melting, oceans, Poincaré's conjecture, topology, Fields Medal, Grigori Perelman]
[literature, airplanes, safety, design]
Drummer Tre Cool chipped Armstrong's front teeth while he was throwing television sets out of their hotel window - a stunt that nearly cost them the video. [Hero's Turbine, Ctesibios, Ktesibios, Ktsebios, Ctsebios, Philon of Byzantium, Heron of Alexandria, Hellenistic world, Alexander, alchemy, Aristotle, steam engines, pneumatics, water organ, gases, air, atoms, atomism, Hellenic]
[transportation, commercial airlines, seaplanes, women]
[Sutter, Lienhard, Marshall, water wheel, Pelton wheel, metallurgy, Watt, Boulton, Boswell]
Eminem sampled the song "Thank You" by the British singer Dido on his 2000 hit "Stan.".
1982 Albrecht Dürer and Times Roman Letters: Art that endured
[Blanc, Whitney, production, France, America, Jefferson]
56. 1735 Mousetraps, paperclips, the Arts and Crafts movement, and invention
[Palomar, optical, optics, astronomy, lenses, Mt.
[transportation, high-wheelers, penny farthing, pedals, safety bicycles, Karl von Drais, David Herlihy, velocipede]
784 Topiary: Another kind of living animal
753 Gutenberg: borrowing for twenty years to invent movable type
2958 The Tour de France and WW-I: bicycles, aeroplanes, and Octave Lapize
[wheel, tire, cycling, Dunlop, Willie Hume, Robert Thomson]
559 Rates of technological improvement: doubling in a lifetime
[fingerprints, Madrid Error, minutiae, twelve-match guideline]
2257 Pumping our blood, when our hearts fail us
3192 Behind the Scenes at The Engines of Our Ingenuity
[Shakespeare, Elizabethan language, Sidney Berger, idiom, Bernard Levin]
914 Socrates, and the technologies of democracy, in the Agora
B. Clark, Floyd Ferris, darcy, permeability, petroleum, oil, nitroglycerine, fracture, hydraulic fracturing, proppant, horizontal drilling,
[industrial safety, terrorism, chemistry, logging]
[Leonardo da Vinci, flight, Lenormand, Renaissance]
1081 Paradoxes: "Skeletons in the closet of reason"
119 J. Willard Gibbs, America's greatest scientist
2734 Artisan flintknappers of Blombos Cave, 60,000 years too soon
[time travel, past, future, H. G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, The Lake House, The Time Traveler's Wife, determinism, free will, time paradoxes, the butterfly effect]
[Laxey wheel, Laxey mine, waterwheel, watermill, Isle of Man, water, pump, steam engine]
Toba, Mary Shelley, natural disasters, hydrogen bomb, explosive megatons,Frankenstein, LDS, Mormons, Krakatoa, Malay Archipeligo, Sumatra, Java, plate tectonics, Switzerland, famine, food riots, global climate change, ash, lava]
[wound golf balls, Coburn Haskell, Bertrand Work, Andrew Boyd, gutties, featheries, bounding billies, materials science, gutta percha, balata, U.S. Open Golf Tournament]
[Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Wannamaker's department store, skyscraper, skypricker, Gillette, architecture, urban planning, construction, sociology, socialism, Utopias]
[Thomas Hobbes, John Wallis, squaring the circle, Euclid's Elements, Leviathan, Apostle of Infidelity, Monster of Malmsbury, Insipid Venerator of a Material God, feud]
[Aztec, racial prejudice, race, feminism, precolumbian, sociology, Native American]
2934 Reading the Molecules of Life
[China, Chinese diplomat Wu Ting-fang, culture, cultural differences, women, manners, voting, elections, Wordsworth, class, servants]
[Montessori, learning, educational psychology]
[Transcontinental Railroad, Telegraph, Golden Spike, Hell on Wheels, Tents, Railroad Workers, 19th Century]
[cosmology, ecology, biology, religion, Lovelock, Margulis, intelligence, geology, chemistry, spectroscopy, temperature]
[computer, information revolution, world wide web, education]
927 The Wright Brothers manage to fly when everyone else fails
1932 1790 to 1836: Ten thousand lost patents
[anthropology, archaeology, Cro-Magnons.
348 The riddle of the camera and reality
682 In which Ole Roemer learns the speed of light in 1675
[puzzle, Sudoku, crosswords, dementia, airplane seats, College Puzzle Challenge]
[astronomy, astrophysics, elliptical orbits, Edmund Halley, Battle of Hastings, psychology, Shakespeare, Linnaeus]
2083 Trouble in the history books: Revisiting the Orukter Amphibolus
2786 Creativity Leashed: How a new way of looking at computers got away
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[bottle, flask, Jamestown, Plymouth,Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, glass making, packaging, robot production, Coca Cola, survival]
[Linotype, design, machine, Merganthaler, production, printing, function]
1303 Chasing the transit of Venus over the tundra
[Antonio Salieri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, forgotten airplanes, forgotten composers, WW-II, opera, music, military aircraft, Messerschmitt 323 321 Gigant, troop carrying gliders, Hawker Hurricane, Spitfire, Ruggero Leoncavallo]
1340 Animals and emotion: figuring out what is obvious
[America, cattle ranching, Spanish American War, Henry Adams, cowboys, Rough Riders]
2918 Norman Brinker and the History of Restaurant Chains
772 Perry Collins and Cyrus Field race to forge a telegraph link
1822 Michael W. O'Neill, and the world below the surface
[simplicity, complexity, standard deviation, statistics, statistical analysis, Einstein, Relativity Theory, data]
[flight, airplanes, transportation, cowls, design, selection, Boeing, Earhart, Post, Lockheed, aerodynamics]
[Stinson, Batten, Nancy Bird, Earhart, Quimby, Ruth Law, transportation, aviation]
[Trofim Lysenko, curiosity, questioning, bad science, Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Revolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamark, Gregor Mendel, agriculture, crops, Cold War, Joe McCarthy, Red Scare, Cold War, adaptation, genetics, evolution, Iowa]
3152 Elisha Perkins and Tractors
54 O'Shaughnessy and the Indian telegraph system
[daredevils, Houdini, women]
[complexity, emergence, ants, self-organized systems, Conway, computability]
[Solid geometry, Platonic regular solids, Euclidean geometry, Johannas Kepler, cosmology, solar system, religion]
260 150 years of the metric system of units
[biophysics, biology, biochemistry, genetics, genes, science]
[Horology, fusee, stackfreed, waterclock, mechanical clock, escapement mechanism, Thomas à Kempis]
2320 Tracing recent history: computer memory over three decades
[Stahl, phlogiston, anima, vitalism, vitalist, thermodynamics, medicine, philosophy, mind and body, Becher, Aristotelian essences, combustion]
[handbooks, steam power, hydrostatics, pneumatics, railroads, trevithick, technological change, Mary Shelley, locomotives, coal, conservation, water power]
2440 Johannes Georg Sulzer, and two views of the word taste
[breathing, oxygen, underwater, scuba, artificial gills, zoology, mimicking nature, fish, marine biology]
1668 Scientific instruments creating a new rhetoric
[Nazis, Wallenberg, Houseman, genocide, art museum]
3241 Green with Immortality
[Edison, Pasteur, Alvarez, Julian, Carver, Matzeliger, Elion, Bell, Wright, Marconi, Morse, McCormick, Whitney, Atanasoff, Carothers, Ford, Fermi, American patent, neoprene, nylon, Otto]
"--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us.
[Stevin, decimal, currency, U.S. currency, metric system]
1506 The invisible invention of the clock
[Rushdie, library science, information, retrieval, journals, computers, books]
[Charles Brace, orphan trains, children, vagrant, orphan, adoption, foster care]
[art, painting, ornithology, zoology, biology, nature, Cuvier, France, French Revolution]
[Brunel, accidents, safety, shipbuilding, passenger liners, success, failure]
1930 In which languages die out, but the letters live on
[England, Great Britain, Lunardi, flight, transportation, invention, Blanchard, Dickens, balloons]
[myth, invention, inventor, US Capitol, John Fitch, Robert Fulton, steamboats, Rousseau]
[Charles Charlie Taylor, Wright brothers, Orville, Wilbur, Cal Rogers Vin Fiz, Portal of the Folded Wings, Henry Ford Dayton bicycle shop]
[Houston Museum of Printing History, Gutenberg printing press bible, Rosetta Stone, lithography, Charles Criner, linotype, letter press, offset, Benjamin Franklin, movable metal type]
30 Colonial America, 1776: A new nation of glorious amateurs
1714 The mischief, in space, of the "infinite reservoir" thought model
[medicine, war, Red Cross, Solferino, Dunant, Barton]
[Tun, ton, tonne, weights and measures, volume, Classic Comics, Moby Dick, Heidleberg Tun, ship capacity, water density, supertankers, container ships, double hull tankers]
2064 Seeing what we might have otherwise driven past on the South Texas coast
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[firearms, guns, weapons, war, bombs, bombards, pistols, manure, animal husbandry, agriculture, saltpeter, Buddhists, Buddhism, arms]
[Kurt Godel, Goedel, Einstein, completeness and constistency, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, psychosis, mental illness, mathematical logic]
35 Does war influence technological evolution? [home economics, domestic science, Ellen Richards, women]
2100 The Mpemba Effect: heating water to make it freeze faster
[Africa, Black, books, manuscripts, science, caravans, commerce, education]
[encryption, Internet security, abstraction, number theory, business]
2739 Evolution of the Hall from Anglo-Saxon times to the present
1928 Packing objects -- spheres, cannonballs, or M&Ms
626 Maria Montessori, harded-headed apostle of the child's mind
179 On the Invention of the electric chair
[adult stem cells, embryonic, James Thomson, McCullough, Till, bioreactor, microbiology, TRIZ Altschuller, NASA space experiments, David Bonner]
2405 Jean-François de Rozier: first aeronaut to fly, and first to die
2233 Gee Bee, Macchi-Castoldi, and the age of speed
181 The Industrial Revolution comes to America
[evolution, theology, Cro-Magnon, archaeology, anthropology, Dawson]
1867 In which the Wright Brothers invent the airplane propeller
[Engineering design, decision making, Hobson's Choice, Kenneth Clark, Leonardo da Vinci, James Watt, separate condenser]
1757 A reflection on the invisibility of technological change
139 Herbert and Lou Hoover meet Georgius Agricola
[Ogden Nash, ETAOIN, SHRDLU, QWERTYOP, Linotype machines, typewriters, Max Schulman, Robert Crumb, type-setting, keyboards]
2215 Surviving Ourselves: Another look at the long ecology debate
2555 The brave new world of digitizing books for the Web
2547 Changing views on charging interest throughout history
368 The size of things: How big or small is the world around us?
2701 Entropy at the Movies: In which Roger Ebert verbs the noun entropy
2358 Chedworth Villa -- then the Roman, now you and I
1284 Mikhail Goldshtik: A death and a beginning
1502 In which the temptress Moon leads calendar-makers astray
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2596 Golf Club Grooves: How small changes in technology can cause controversy
[cotton gin ginning seed removal textiles India China Angela Lakwete bolls roller gin saw gin Eli Whitney Yale Washing machine wringer Phineas Miller Hogden Holmes patents slavery]
2628 When traveling into space, how do you know you're there? 2095 Sidney Rix's new algebra book: Of billboards and landscapes
[Shakers, Soled, Ockham, manufacturing]
2416 In which the PaleoClock puts time in perspective
[Bissell, Melville Bissell, Anna Bissell, broom, carpet sweeper, vacuum cleaner, women]
[Lamaze, childbirth, natural childbirth, Marjorie Karmel, Paula Michaels, Soviet Union, World War II, McCarthyism, communism]
[agriculture, power generator, Wheeler, Burnham, Halladay, Perry, Chicago World's Fair]
980 The G.I. [exploration, archaeology, dinosaurs, China, Komodo]
1775 The book -- as seen in 1897 and 1978
[wave power renewable solar energy wind farms windmills]
1262 An 18-century environmental disaster in Brittany, France
LibriVox About. 779 Balloon-frame houses: the first unique American architecture
1695 On wanting to build my own crystal set
2833 Kykkos Monastery, Cyprus, and the origins of Western monasticism
[stock market, Three Mile Island nuclear reactor]
2463 Serendipity and the Inventive Mind
3150 Can Technology Replace Sports Officiating?
[Lewis, Chase, Ford, Roosevelt, Metropolis, sociology, Utopian socialism, invention, Nickerson]
[locomotives, railways, the Stourbridge Lion, The America, Robert Stephenson, John Jervis, Delaware & Hudson canal, steamboats, transportation]
[design, manufacturing, Langmuir, electric light bulb]
[Newton, Leonardo, science, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Galileo, scientific method]
1456 In which paper goes from China to Europe by way of Samarkand
1708 The school system, and the father, that produced Louisa May Alcott
[architecture, construction, Milhaud, flight, transportation]
1495 The new technological elite: chauffeurs then, computer experts today
1115 New York Library's selection of the Books of the Century
796 A Renaissance church: first fruit of Leonardo's new architectural eye
[power, metallurgy, mining, coke, energy production, ecology, wood, timber, Coals to Newcastle, Marco Polo, Emerson, environment, pollution]
3212 Simple Technology Helps Migrating Fish
[water wheels, fulling mills, Atheneaum, Colonial America, education, land grant colleges, pioneers]
1665 Making Artificial hearts and minds in the sixteenth century
The Canadian composed it when she was an unsigned 15-year-old living in Napanee, Ontario.
[Markowitz, correlation, risk, portfolio theory, eggs and baskets]
[forensic, evidence, Alphonse Bertillion, retinal scans, photography, DNA, FBI, identification, fingerprinting]
1236 In which an old man finally flies in a B-17
1591 Baroque violins and the notion of a completed technology
949 On trying to fathom the electronic revolution from within it
[vacuum, space, pressure, repressurized, decompression, ebullism, Space Odyssey, Dave Bowman, Soyuz 11, airlock]
[transportation, Great Lakes, Buffalo, Hudson, Niagara, Jefferson, Gallatin, Clinton]
[light bulb, energy efficiency, watt, lumen, slug]
[construction, building, house, housing, ecology, insulation]
2973 The Lady of Mysteries Agatha Christie; The Famous Detectives Miss Marple and Hercule Piorot
509 The Technological Muse: An art exhibit on technology
[women, mathematics, LaGrange, Gauss, Eiffel]
1667 In which we look at the problem of seeing what we expect to see
[Separation, Purification, Pigments, Adsorption, Solvents, Chlorophyll, Analysis, Column, Filter Paper, Plants, Botany, Warsaw, Russia, Analysis]
[Borelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, biomechanics, human motion, Pisa, Renaissance, Italy, Tuscany, Naples, mathematics, dissection, anatomy, physiology, empiricism, scientific method]
406 Why do you and I have legs instead of wheels?
638 David Bushnell/Dr.
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[science, Rome, physics, poem, poetry, Aristotle, atomism, kinetic theory of gases, Pierre Gassendi, Titus Lucretius, statistical thermodynamics]
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884 How we forgot lawn mowers and let them eat up the environment
201 The rush to build the Western riverboats
[railroads, railways, Donner Party, Heinrich Lienhard]
[water wheels, horse power, grinding grain, slavery]
624 In which John Tyndall tries to find God in his physics
[metabolism, calories, power, Mt.
[invention]
[Nicholson, millwright, Industrial Revolution, Dickens, machinists, woodcuts, social change, power production]
[Heligoland, Helgoland, Heyligeland, Frisia, Frisian Coast, Germany , WW-I, WW-II, Werner Heisenberg, quantum mechanics, atom bomb, Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach, Battle of Heligoland Bight]
2069 Alexander Bain: so many ideas before their time
1853 The Beat Generation, revolution's precursor
2166 John Fitch, a steamboat builder surrunded by the early makers of America
2894 Wastewater Treatment
3020 Credit Card Error Detection
[economics, Victorian England, Child Labor laws, Great Britain, industrialization, education]
[communication, Monaco, Remington, business, typewriter, QWERTY, writing]
To capture the "still frames in your mind," the extras were told not to blink, but some of them couldn't help it. 568 A survey of job satisfaction among women engineers
1461 George Everett Hale and BIG telescopes
[ecology, biology, zoology, Gaia, electronic communications, Hillel, Gould, competition, Japan, starlings]
2394 The mpg illusion: How can we really best save gas?
[boats, ships, stability, crab harvesting, Alaska, metacenter, metacentric height, fluid statics, fluid mechanics, center of gravity, capsizing]
[shipping, archaeology, Egyptian, Roman]
963 How General Santa Anna went on from the Alamo to create the American chewing gum industry
[biology, DNA, RNA, religion, creationism, evolution, Darwin]
[Ader, flight, transportation, Wright, invention, Maxim's aeroplane, airplanes, Maxim gun, Hiram Maxim, Hudson Maxim, war]
Fockke-Wulfe 109, P-47 Thunderbolt, WW-II fighter planes, radial engines, in-line aircooled engines, Curtiss p-36, Donovan Berlin, Tomahawk, Warhawk, Kittyhawk, Claire Chennault, Flying Tigers, China]
1070 Wrong Way Corrigan -- a last bit of fun before WW-II
[fire, cooking, hearths, Pilgrims, Thanksgiving, food preparation, Colonial America]
[flight, tunnel, Gossamer Albatross, Kremer prize]
[astronomy, Spielberg, Sagan, radio telescopes]
941 Titanic on I-MAX: the wrong medium delivers an odd message
[microchips, integrated circuits, plastic encapsulation, Gene Kelly, singing in the rain, electronic packaging]
837 Diocles' parabolic mirror -- in an old Arabic book
[information, electronic media, education, radio, TV, sociology, e-mail, internet]
2599 The Art of Attraction: Imagery from Strange Attractors
3161 Seeing Red: What Goes On in the Minds of Others?
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[Minnesota, Canada, Louisiana Purchase, Revolutionary War]
2867 Augustin Fresnel, light, and lighthouses: from the science of light to the saving of ships
[mathematics, science, logic, Toledo, Abelard, Library, philosophy, Aristotlem, Grosseteste, Bacon, optics, eyeglasses]
1936 Making electric toys in 1891
[theater, theater, memory, memorization, memory palace, psychology]
3206 Australia Wins The America's Cup
[le Système international d'unités, the International System of Units, French Revolution, Metric System, English system, France, dimensions, Joule, Celsius, measurement]
[Miss Columbia, Columbia, Uncle Sam, Christopher Columbus, Samuel Wilson, Phyllis Wheatley, George Washington, Statue of Liberty, Columbia Pictures, Britannia, Germania, Marianne, women]
[Hall, house, homes, Anglo-Saxons, Angles]
[musical instruments, invention]
764 Werner von Braun transcends the heritage of the V-2
[geography, technology, wheel, writing, cartography, anthropology, climate, agriculture, farming, domesticated animals]
699 The Gaia Hypothesis: Mother Earth wears a human face
[war, airships, airplanes, flight, bombing, transportation]
1494 The strange persistence of X-ray hair removal
3224 Fake rocks, forced perspective, and other forms of illusion in the private home of Disney Imagineer Fred Joerger
1039 Infallible texts encased in commentary
1082 The last shall be first: steam turbines and cuneiform
[scales, tuning, Back, Chu, Tartini, Mersenne, Ricci]
[dyslexia, educational psychology, electricity, magnetism, Davy, Marcet, political economics, Africa, Maxwell, Tyndall, religion, Sandemanians]
[Romantic, literature, Blake, Barlow, Wollstoncraft, Priestley, Franklin, Godwin, invention, Brown, Industrial Revolution]
322 Marriot's Avitor airship and the California Gold Rush
[Hampton, Black, geology, science, cosmology, Burnett]
[Shakespeare, France, England, Chunnel, Tso, Chinese, China, construction, psychology, subways]
[communication, Monaco, Remington, business]
[Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, Utopia, utopian, socialism]
1395 The World's Worst Aircraft: learning what constitutes bad
[doughnuts, donuts, victuals, Hanson gregory, Blondell, patents, invention, priority, cooking, deep fried food]
[movies, film, hunger, starvation, food, age, women, aging, Africa, Somalia, geriatrics, creativity]
[Colonial America, printing, Daye, Day, Dunster, Green, Indians, Pilgrims, religion, women, Bay Psalm Book]
Peltier, thermocouples]
[Feynman, Wren, Newton, Hawking, Principia, education, teaching, gambling]
204 Robert A. Millikan, a man who didn't want to be a physicist
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