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In 1941, while WWII raged on in Europe, a secret group of GE engineers were tasked with building the
Images from the Wikimedia Commons Napier’s Bones category.“Napier’s bones are
Excerpt from DK Eyewitness’s Computer. Click to enlarge.
Book review: REALLY thorough explanation of the history and inner workings of the Antikythera
Record matrix room, Berliner Gramophone Company, Montréal, Québec, 1910.
With my older rendition of the Command Module Panel, just the CDR (Left seat) segment, getting some
Illustration of a hydropowered perpetual flute from “The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Me
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, circa 1900s, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathem
Margaret Hamilton, lead Apollo flight software engineer, in the Apollo Command Module, circa late 19
1915 illustration of Elisha Gray’s telautograph system, an instrument designed for the electri
Jagadish Chandra Bose with other prominent scientists and engineers at Calcutta University, circa 19
1933 postcard advertising the Atlantic City Auditorium and Convention Hall. Opened in 1929, the Hall
Alfred Norton Goldsmith, a founder of the Institute of Radio Engineers, one of the predecessor socie
The Bund, a waterfront area in Shanghai, 1930.
Samarkand Station, Russian Empire (modern day Uzbekistan), 1890.
Holt Steamer No. 77, the second prototype of a crawler-track-type tractor built by the Holt Machiner
Jost Amman’s 1568 illustration of a brewery.
Harriet Quimby in the cockpit of her Blériot monoplane, 1911.
Iranian newspaper clip, 1968 which reads: “A quarter of Iran’s Nuclear Energy sc
1902 photograph of the French submarine Gymnote. The submarine was initially constructed in 1888, wi
Else Marie Pade, monitoring her Faust suite composition, 1962. During World War II she was involved
Caroline Haslett circa 1924, when she became director of the Electrical Association for Women.
Toshiko Yuasa, 1947. Yuasa was a nuclear physicist who worked in France at the Centre national de la
Jörg Mager playing a Spherophone, an early electric instrument invented by Mager, at the 1926 s
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