Weird Waters of Yellowstone
For at least a few million years, since magma a hole under ancient Wyoming’s bedrock, Yellowstone periodically disgorged a small ocean of lava in eruptions hundreds of times worse than any recent volcanic explosion...
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Photocopiers
Few inventions have transformed office life as much as ‘Xerography’. Before photocopiers came on the market, if you wanted a copy of a document you had three alternates: copy it out on a...
Chilliwack
The Collectors found some minor success as a 1960s psychedelic group, but luckily the 1970s weren’t that far away. Changing their namme o Chilliwack – a Native North American term from the Salish language...
Fax
Sometimes an invention is made many years before there is any demand for it. This is what happened with the fax machine. The basic idea came to German inventor Arthur Korn in the early...
Washing Machine
Today, it is difficult for most people in Europe and America to imagine life without a washing machine. But for thousands of years, people washed their clothes by hand. In many places, people still...
Windmill
The first windmills were built in western Asia, probably in Syria, in the seventh century AD. In this part of the world, there are strong winds that almost always blow in the same direction....
Concrete
Concrete may seem like a very modern building material, but it was actually invented by the Romans. They made it by mixing fragments of stone with a mixture of lime and sand. The sand...
Chinois
Similar to shepherd’s pie, this French-Canadian dish features layers of ground beef, corn, and mashed potatoes. Despite the “Chinois” in its name (in French, pate Chinois means “Chinese pie”), it’s not Chinese. The dish...
Alaska Purchase Check
After many years of negotiations with the Tsar, the United States buys Russia’s huge frozen chunk of North America for two cents per acre, leaving some Americans to question if Alaska’s worth that much....
Golden Gate Bridge
Building the Golden Gate Bridge was a mammoth task in the 1930s. The bridge connects San Francisco to Marin Country in California, US. The region is well known for its strong winds, fogs and...
