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The technologies we rely on today, particularly smartphones, have largely superseded devices that were groundbreaking just a few decades ago. However, nearly every modern gadget evolved from an ...

Long before modern microchips, wireless networks, and high-resolution touchscreen displays revolutionized personal technology, visionary inventors were already designing early mechanical equivalents ...

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How do inventions happen? NPR's Planet Money's team brings us the history of one underappreciated invention that has enabled countless other inventions, from the Phillips screwdriver to Bluetooth. You ...

Introduction -- Industrial copies -- Recollection and possession -- The principle of a machine -- Mechanical jurisprudence -- Reissues -- Textual machines -- Organisms as manufactures -- Cultures, ...