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The 1980s are forever immortalized in popular culture as an era of primitive digitization, with technological revolutions spanning everything from the artificial heart to the Space Shuttle. The ...

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“It looks like a wet suit,” says Anurag Mairal, picking up a pile of thick blue material decorated with bands of black Velcro and bright yellow numbers, “But actually it’s an anti-shock garment.” I’m ...

Hedy Lamarr was born on 9 November 1914 under the name Hedwig Eva Kiesler in the Austrian city of Vienna. Although she was ...

Innovation requires clarity, intention and structure. It begins with a shared understanding that invention and innovation are ...

From the Publisher: Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the ...