Technology
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…
20 Nazi-Inspired Inventions
Whilst we are all aware, to a lesser or greater extent, of the scientific and engineering feats of the Allies…
18 Ways in Which People in History Endangered Themselves Needlessly With Everyday Things
What seems to be a great idea at the time all too often turns out to be the opposite after…