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Elon Musk’s Robot Tricks Were Used on Soviets in the 1950s, Too

Fri, 10/11/2024 - 15:00

The robot floor cleaner of the future, photographed for the July 21, 1959 issue of Look magazine, which was actually controlled remotely by a man in the next room.

History, Elon Musk, Fakes, Hoax, RCA, Robots, Soviet Union

Researchers Claim Bones in Spanish Church Belong to Christopher Columbus

Fri, 10/11/2024 - 12:15

The tomb of Christopher Columbus in Seville.

History, Cathedrals, Christopher Columbus, DNA tests, exploration, History

Vintage photos show how the role of women in the workforce has evolved in the last 100 years

Tue, 09/03/2024 - 09:20

woman computer 1970 — A woman works at an early model desktop computer made by Servus, circa the 1970s.
Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Strategy, Features, women-and-money, History, vintage-photos, Vintage, women-in-the-workplace

Star Wars‘ New History Book Treats It as Exactly That

Fri, 08/16/2024 - 11:00

Star Wars, disney, History, lucasfilm, Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire

20 vintage photos of Alaska from before it became a state

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 13:47

Tech Insider : Travel

CIRCA 1929: Child is Joe Moses, Woman and child, Nunivak — Alaska has been inhabited for thousands of years, but became part of the US only 65 years ago.
Buyenlarge/Getty Images

Travel, Lifestyle, Features, Alaska, native-alaskan, vintage-photos, History

Digital-twin technology could be an archaeologist's most powerful tool

Fri, 08/09/2024 - 12:44

Illustration of a split image showing Pompeii in ruins on one side, contrasted with a digital recreation gradually taking shape on the other — Ariel Davis for BI

Tech, Tech, digital, data, Research, History, 5-g-and-connectivity-playbook

What Americans Knew About Climate Change in the 1960s Will Shock You

Mon, 08/05/2024 - 15:12

Edmund Muskie

Climate Change, Climate Change, History

Vintage photos show what it was like to stay at the first Olympic Village 100 years ago

Fri, 08/02/2024 - 10:24

Tech Insider : Sports, Sports

Athletes sit in chairs outside a wooden hut at the Olympic Village in Paris in 1924. — Athletes relaxed at the first Olympic Village.
Topical Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Sports, Olympics, olympic-village, Paris, History, Sports, 2024-paris-olympics

Photos show what it was like to eat at McDonald's in the 1980s

Sun, 07/28/2024 - 09:45

A drive-through McDonald's in Los Angeles, March 1983. — A drive-thru McDonald's in Los Angeles, March 1983.
Barbara Alper/Getty Images

Food, Retail, Features, McDonalds, mc-donalds, fast-food, fast-food-restaurant

Vintage photos show what it was like to eat at Burger King in the 1980s

Fri, 07/26/2024 - 12:00

A crew member at Burger King holds up a double cheeseburger in 1989 — A crew member at Burger King holds up a double cheeseburger in 1989.
Glen Martin/The Denver Post/Getty Images

Food, Retail, Features, fast-food, burger-king, History, vintage-photos

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