Collaborate Disseminate
When the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first flew in 1970, it was a marvel. With its variable-sweep wing, twin tail, and sleek lines, it quickly became one of the most iconic …read more Continue reading The World’s First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer
If you are designing a building and need to move many people up or down, you probably will at least consider an escalator. In fact, if you visit most large …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Escalators
Much about archaeology can be described as trying to figure out the context in which objects and constructions should be interpreted. A good example of this are the metal dodecahedrons …read more Continue reading Roman Dodecahedrons: A Mystifying Archaeological Find
With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this …read more Continue reading Robot: You Keep Using That Word But It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
It’s one of the strangest unsolved cases, and even though the FBI closed their investigation back in 2016, this may be the year it cracks wide open. On November 24, …read more Continue reading DB Cooper Case Could Close Soon Thanks To Particle Evidence
Britain’s hush hush Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) intelligence and security organization has released new images never before made public of Colossus, the world’s first digital electronic computer, to mark its 80th anniversary.Continue … Continue reading British spy agency releases previously secret images of Colossus computer
Recently the [Periscope Film] channel on YouTube published a 1960 color documentary featuring the 1958 launch of the Atlas B (SM-65B) ICBM, in its second, Missile 4B iteration. This was …read more Continue reading Testing The Atlas ICBM: A 1958 Time Capsule Video
There’s an upcoming movie, Argyle, about an author whose spy novels are a little too accurate, and she becomes a target of a real-life spy game. We haven’t seen the …read more Continue reading Predicting the A-Bomb: The Cartmill Affair
Those who haven’t experienced the destruction of a house fire should consider themselves lucky. The speed with which fire can erase a lifetime of work — or a life, for …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Rebuilding a Fire-Ravaged Telephone Exchange
As a nerdy kid in the 90s, I spent a fair bit of time watching the computer-themed cartoon Reboot. During the course of making a documentary about the show, [Jacob …read more Continue reading Digital Master Tapes Seek Deck