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Articles with keyword "Technology"

A still from "The Soul of Youth." 1920

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Film as Argument

The early disputatious days of American movies.

Peter Cooper, 1850

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Peter Cooper’s Big Ideas

Steam engines and Jell-O paled beside the famed inventor's greatest legacy.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

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Impertinent Questions with Kathleen Fitzpatrick

On scholarly communities in the digital age.

19th-century miner's lunch pail from the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

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Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum

A segmented miner’s lunch pail from the nineteenth century was, above all, practical, with stacking compartments for stews, pie, cobbler, as well as a cup on top for coffee, which was heated over a ca

Bronze winged foot from Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, OH

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Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens

Stan Hywet (stone quarry in Old English) was built between 1912 and 1915 near Akron, OH, by cofounder of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company F. A. Seiberling.

John Wanamaker Monorail

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John Wanamaker Monorail

Shouldn’t these tiny travelers be beaming?

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The SL Puffin

This diminutive steamer, christened the SL Puffin, began life in 1906 as a 5-horsepower gasoline-powered launch.

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The "Etheric Force Machine"

John Ernst Worrell Keely was, in his own words, “the greatest humbug of the nineteenth century.” The perpetrator of a long-running and remarkably elaborate pseudoscientific scam, Keely convinced numer

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Telecommunications Triumphs

Staying up all night working on his code and such for the glory of France, Napoleon still had time for other long-lasting achievements—namely, his optical telegraph.