This Clock Made Power Grids Possible
On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. Warren quietly revolutionized power transmission by installing an electric clock in…
On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. Warren quietly revolutionized power transmission by installing an electric clock in…
In 1964, the office cubicle was born. For that you can thank Robert Propst, a designer at the Herman Miller…
In 1961, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and wound up in Massachusetts General Hospital. Wiener’s bad…
The British engineer James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements…