I'd like to imagine that an intense passion for sailing coupled with a severe case of hydrophobia were what compelled Mr. J. A. Aspinwall to invent the Sail Wagon, featured in the June 14th, 1884 issue of Scientific American ...
If you’ve ever commuted through New York City during rush hour, you’ve probably experienced stress-inducing traffic, over-stuffed subway cars, or delays that don’t care if you’ve given yourself an extra half hour...
Before there were B-52s and F-15s, there were balloons. The issue from November 13, 1909, reported on the status of aeronautics in the U.S. military, which at the time was under the control of the Signal Corps, a branch in charge of the transfer of information and intelligence...
One of the reasons I dreaded math class was the looming feeling that what I learned would turn out to be useless. No matter how hard I tried, I could not imagine a situation outside of school when I would need to know how to graph a logarithm or find the degree of an unknown angle...
Answer: The Zebrass. The zebrass is a mix between an African zebra and a Texas donkey. This hybrid first came to be, according to the May 7, 1910 article, when President Theodore Roosevelt was given a royal Abyssinian zebra from King Menelik of Ethiopia...
Have you ever found yourself stumbling upon some great new restaurant or hiking path and, having no idea how you got there, realize its impossible to get back a second time?
According to this ad for Western Electric, Electrical Prosperity Week was held from November 29 to December 4, 1915: It was a national event that was held to showcase how indispensible electricity is to everyday life, and to show off some of its capabilities...
There's no doubt that large amounts of snowfall and record-low temperatures have made this a particularly brutal winter. Between road closings, power outages, flight cancellations, and all that shoveling, it’s difficult to stop and acknowledge the beauty brought by winter before it melts away just as quickly as it came...
Throughout its history, Scientific American published numerous war-related articles ranging from strategies and weaponry to more candid, humanizing portraits of life at the front.
A certain children’s show I grew up watching had an episode featuring the post office. The host of the show got a behind-the-scenes look at what happened to all the mail once it had been delivered to the post office, and I was immediately fascinated by the immensity of letters and their ability to find the right conveyor belt in the labyrinth of machinery behind the service desks and P.O...
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