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From the Family Station Wagon to the Apollo Lunar Rover, My Dad’s Engineering Talent Had No Limits

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(via Smithsonian) Stricken with polio as an adult, William Taylor retired from the military and joined NASA’s ingenious design team.

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(via Amusing Planet) The Laxey Wheel is a large waterwheel located in the village of Laxey in the Isle of

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(via Smithsonian) The invention was once received with chilly skepticism but has become a fixture of American life.

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(via Vox) Lunar samples are a time capsule. Scientists say we should go back for more.

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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 Popular Mechanics) Residents of the German town of Limberg woke up to a startling sight Monday morning: a crater

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(via Amusing Planet) Of all things Thomas Alva Edison is known for, concrete is not one of them. It was

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(via Amusing Planet) When cell phones were first introduced, they were unattractive, brick-like devices that could do nothing more than

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(via Listverse) A modern wonder is imaging and our ability to share pictures globally within seconds. People alive today can

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(via Smithsonian) Open-heart procedures evolved rapidly once Mayo Clinic surgeon John Kirklin made his improvements to an earlier invention

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(via Listverse) We are all concerned about robots and artificial intelligence taking over our jobs. However, nobody seems to be

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(via Popular Mechanics) “Wise Guy” is only the second B-52 brought back from retirement to flying status.