What Your Car’s Low Gas Light Really Means
(via mental_floss) The low fuel warning light on your car’s dashboard is a familiar sight to many drivers, and if
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Voder: The World’s First Talking Machine
(via Listverse) The first device to be considered a true speech synthesizer was the VODER (Voice Operating Demonstrator) developed by
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10 Amazing Ways Video Games Can Change Your Life
(via Neatorama) They can save your life, crush your soul, make you a fortune, or even leave you penniless. Here
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Vehicular Vengeance: The Origin of Lamborghini
(via Great Big Story) Lamborghinis and Ferraris are well known for being the most expensive and opulent sports cars on
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Color TV Transformed the Way Americans Saw the World, and the World Saw America
(via Smithsonian) A historian of 20th century media argues that the technological innovation was the quintessential Cold War machine.
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The Iconic Windmills That Made the American West
(via Atlas Obscura) The Mid-America Windmill Museum, in Kendallville, Indiana, exists almost entirely outdoors. Its 53 specimens, most of them
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Reinventing the Bicycle Wheel
(via Great Big Story) Since the Stone Age, the wheel has helped spearhead our most important discoveries and changed transportation
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11 Things You Might Not Know About Neil Armstrong
(via Mental Floss) NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) will forever have a place as the first human to ever set
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The History Behind Ctrl+Alt+Del
(via Great Big Story) We’ve only got one life to live, but thanks to three simple keystrokes, at least we
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What’s Inside Blue Ballpoint Ink?
(via Wired) Patents for ballpoint pens go back to the late 1800s, but it took half a century to develop
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When Televisions Were Radioactive
(via The Atlantic) Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public
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Nikola Tesla Built a Giant Tower to Send Wireless Electricity Around the World
(via Atlas Obscura) The tower went 187 feet up into the sky. The base was framed with wood, but the
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