From the Ancient Past to the trenches of World Wars, from secret gadgets to keyboards, spies have played an essential part in human history. While their […]
“Failure is not an option.” – Gene Kranz (NASA Flight Director, during Apollo 13) Just 66 years after the Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903, […]
Last time, in Part One (Mechanical Clocks, Electricity, and Radio), we talked about the Abacus, the Chinese ‘Cosmic Engine’, the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, robots in early […]