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Why Telephone Companies Once Discouraged People From Chatting

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(via Atlas Obscura) Today phones have grown critical for making personal connections. The first phone companies probably wouldn’t have been

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(via Amusing Planet) On December 26, 1783, a crowd gathered outside the observatory in Montpellier, a French city near the

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(via Listverse) Being an inventor has always seemed to be a pretty awesome career choice; if you’re good at, it

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(via Popular Mechanics) We can’t dig to the center of the Earth, but that hasn’t stopped us from trying. Whether

(via Atlas Obscura) Nearly a century after talkies stole the show, composers, musicians, and audiences are still playing along.

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(via Amusing Planet) The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland

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(via Atlas Obscura) Pyritized trilobites aren’t just flashy—they preserve incredible detail.

December 27, 2019December 27, 2019 0 Comments

(via Amusing Planet) There is not a square-inch of earth that has not been photographed and mapped by satellites today.

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 0 Comments

(via Amusing Planet) Early computers were mechanical machines built using gears and levers. These parts or components could be moved

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 0 Comments

(via Atlas Obscura) They could be related to the famous, ill-fated “Vasa.”

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(via Mental Floss) In 2012, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to venture beyond our solar system. The space

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(via Popular Mechanics) Charles Kline’s first attempt to send a message over ARPANET, the early computer network that would birth