No screen, no undo, a bell that rang early, and no number one. Here are twelve.
1. There Was No Screen, So the Paper Was the Only Record
This is…
The Name Has Been Misleading People for Two Centuries
Almost everybody believes a lightning rod attracts lightning. It is an easy belief to hold, because the thing is pointed, it…
There is a reason haymaking dominated the rural year to the extent it did, and it is not simply that animals needed feeding.
The requirement was absolute. Livestock kept through…
Each building did one job, and the shape is the job. Here are fifteen.
1. A Very Tall Pair of Doors Means Loaded Carts
Enormous doors in the middle of…
There is a difference between knowing something exists and knowing what shape it is, and the ocean floor was in the first category for a very long time.
That it…
The governing fact is adhesion. Steel on steel produces very little grip, which is efficient on the level and useless on a slope - so the route must be flattened…