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Monster Machines: How The World's Biggest Clock Tried To Change The Centre Of Time
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All The Apple Startup Chimes In History
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5 Grisly Decades Of Workplace Safety Posters
Workers’ compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labour Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap payoff — after all, the average factory worker was making mere cents a day, so half a year’s pay was chump change for large companies.
This Radio-Book Was The Future Of Education
New technologies often go through a honeymoon phase where educators hold them up as the futuristic saviour of learning. Today teachers can’t get enough of those Kindles, iPads and MOOCs, which promise to radically change education for generations to come. But this line of thinking has a long history.
How Telemedicine Has Already Surpassed Our Earliest Predictions
Today, remotely operated robot doctors are zipping around intensive care units while smartphone apps beam vital signs from ambulance to hospital. Telemedicine is the wave of the future, but you might be surprised to learn that it has been for nearly a century.
Gimme Shelter: 9 Instant Buildings From Disaster Areas To Battlefields
Describing architecture as “instant” can mean different things to different people. During the post-War housing shortage, it meant prefab homes that went up in weeks. For disaster survivors, it can mean something as simple as a shelter that’s assembled in hours. For the military, instant architecture is closer to instant — aircraft hangars and medical tents that pop up in mere minutes.
How The Smithsonian Is 3D-Scanning Its Entire Collection
The Smithsonian’s been a fan of 3D scanning and printing for some time, but now it’s decided to use lasers to preserve its entire collection for future generations.
There’s Not Much Prettier Than The Guts Of An Old Nikon
If you love old DSLRs, particularly classic Nikons, you owe it to yourself to spend a few minutes over at Clare’s Wyoh Tumblr blog. At the request of a reader with a penchant for Nikon schematics, she scanned a few illustrations from some old manuals and posted them for all of us to ogle. Outdated or not, they’re still gorgeous examples of old-school engineering.
How NASA Imagined Humans On Mars, Back In 1990
NASA’s had Mars on the brain for many, many years, way before it was drawing massive male members in the martian sand. Ever since it sent astronauts to the moon, NASA’s had its sights aimed at the Red Planet. These amazing retro images dug up from the archives show just how NASA thought Mars would be.
Photoshop Brought These Historical Figures Into Present Day
Photoshop has changed the world, but it’s not content with just the future; it’s going back to grab the past too. These digitally modernized portraits of historical figures were put together to promote History TV’s new series, the Secret Life Of…, and will make you wonder if maybe you’ve passed a modern-day Shakespeare on the street in Williamsburg.
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