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There is a particular kind of near-miss in the history of technology, where somebody builds the thing and does not realise what they have built.
Sound recording has an…
There is a widespread assumption about roads that is understandable and backwards.
The assumption is that the hard black surface is the road, and that what lies beneath it is…
There is a difference between two ways of putting a mark on a surface, and almost everything about the history of writing materials follows from it.
The first is to…
There is a category of engineering problem that only becomes visible once you think about what a machine has to do over a whole journey rather than at any moment.…
There is a question that seems too large to answer and turns out to have a small number of recurring answers.
The question is why a particular city is where…
There is a difference between a piece of engineering and a commitment, and reclaimed land is the largest example of the second.
A bridge, once built, stands. A tunnel, once…