On September 9, 1947, somebody working with one of the most advanced calculating machines in the United States opened its hardware and found an unusually literal explanation for a malfunction: a moth was trapped among the electromechanical...
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Look down at a computer keyboard and you are looking at a museum whose exhibits still work. Some keys preserve decisions made by nineteenth-century typewriter manufacturers. Others carry sym...
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Who can claim the invention of wine? A drink so old and widespread that it predates written history. Traces of fermented grape juice have been found across ancient civilizations, but where e...
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Studies have revealed that a significant percentage of U.S. dollar bills are contaminated with trace amounts of cocaine. This contamination occurs primarily through cross-contamination in cu...
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Catania is a city located on the eastern coast of Sicily, in Italy. Its history dates back to antiquity, with the first traces of settlements dating back to the 8th century BC. The city was...
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Who invented glass? Glass is a very ancient material and its history dates back many millennia. The first traces of glass objects date back to the third millennium B.C. in the Middle East ar...
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