In 1916, a Polish scientist discovered how to create a mono-crystal, which later became the basis for integrated circuits and semiconductors.

Home appliances are a relatively recent phenomenon, at least when looking back through history. While modern manufacturing ...

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...

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Key to the game was an analog computer designed to calculate ballistic trajectories, which Higinbotham adapted for more ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

The wheel is one of humanity’s oldest innovations, believed to have first been used around 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia. This simple yet revolutionary invention marked the beginning of a new chapter in ...

Well this is one way to pay for college. Cal Poly student Alex Sahli submitted an Italian Riviera Lego set design to Lego Ideas at the end of high school, and Lego said yes. “At first I thought it was ...

In a 1987 article in the Times Book Review, Robert Solow, a Nobel-winning economist at M.I.T., commented, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Despite massive ...

As we look back on human history, we can analyze certain moments and periods that have shaped how humanity operates today. Various inventions in particular have allowed the human race to move forward ...

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