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Before the 1950s, if you wanted stretchy clothing, you had to wear actual heavy, hot rubber. Because rubber was strictly rationed for war efforts, chemists…
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Creating the crisp, static-free frequency modulation we use today was an agonizing curse. Edwin Armstrong revolutionized broadcasting, but entrenched…
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While American and British labs were pouring massive government funding into early computers, a stubborn German engineer named Konrad Zuse was casually…
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When the mechanical metronome was finally perfected in the early 19th century, musicians absolutely despised it. Many prominent composers actively refused to…
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Every time someone practices mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, they are making out with the ghost of a 19th-century Parisian tragedy. The face of the standard…
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The incredibly sharp, absolutely haunting metallic portraits of the 1840s known as daguerreotypes came with a severely lethal occupational hazard. To make the…
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