Technology
40 of the Most Influential People of All Time
The people who influenced history the most, the "movers and shakers" from ancient times until today, have one thing in…
16 Death Tests Doctors Used to Determine If Someone Was Really Dead in the 18th and 19th Centuries
It is 1750, and you’ve just died from one of the many communicable diseases of the era. Without the modern…
16 Surprising Facts About The Wright Brothers Everybody Should Know
Orville and Wilbur Wright, more commonly known as "The Wright Brothers", were among, if not the most influential American engineers…
20 Noteworthy Engineering Failures in History
Engineers are the unsung heroes of modern civilization. Providing mankind with the ability to travel over water with ships, drive…
16 Medical Procedures and Devices from the Early 1900s that are Straight Out of a Nightmare
Medical devices from the early part of the 1900s looked like torture devices dreamed up by the devil himself. They…
16 of History’s Deadly Diseases That Were In Decline And Are Now Making A Comeback
Microbes are scary. Responsible for more deaths than weapons of war, we are unable to see them with our naked…
17 Incredible Historical Advertisements that Attempted (Sometimes Successfully) to Predict the Future
As legendary physicist Nils Bohr once quipped: "prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future". Any attempt to…
18 Old Fashioned Medical Devices that Belonged in Horror Movies
Modern medicine would likely seem like magic to those who lived in the early 20th century. While medicine in the…
16 Medical Practices That Doctors Thought Were Good
As L.P Hartley poignantly noted: "the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” This sentiment is no…
Ancient Details about the Pre-Columbian World
Although most of us are aware of the ancient civilizations of the Americas, due to their distant past and limited…