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Louis XIV's red heels: when footwear was a court credential
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Galileo's pendulum, or the clock he never lived to build
· 2026-06-03 |
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The Rialto Bridge, or how Venice bet on a single arch
· 2026-06-04 |
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The Great Lock Controversy of 1851
· 2026-06-04 |
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The Hereford Mappa Mundi: the world as it was meant to be
· 2026-06-04 |
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Joel's handoff patent, or how the cellular network learned to keep a call alive
· 2026-06-03 |
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The Arab dinar, or the coin that erased the emperor's face
· 2026-06-05 |
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The Greek alphabet, or how borrowed consonants became the world's first vowels
· 2026-06-02 |
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2026-05-13 |
Donkey Kong: the game that made Nintendo
· 2026-06-05 |
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2026-05-13 |
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or the basement machine that unmade ENIAC
· 2026-06-01 |
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2026-05-13 |
Shannon's chess paper and the problem it was really solving
· 2026-06-02 |
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2026-05-13 |
Jefferson's wheel cipher, or the invention the army made twice
· 2026-06-05 |
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Alice Pascal: the editor that refused to let you make a mistake
· 2026-06-01 |
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Three-tier architecture, or how the application server ate the fat client
· 2026-06-01 |
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COBOL, or how a committee invented the world's most durable programming language
· 2026-06-02 |
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2026-05-15 |
De Rivaz's hydrogen carriage: the first internal-combustion automobile
· 2026-06-01 |
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2026-05-16 |
Pasqua Rosée and London's first coffeehouse
· 2026-06-02 |
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