If a ship sinks more than 2,000 years ago and no one’s around to witness it, does it make a splash in history? The answer is yes—it just might take a while. In 1900, a storm blew a team of Greek sponge divers off course...
We’re no strangers to gears. They appear in mechanisms dating back before the common era and continue to be used in modern machines. Everything from clocks (including the Long Now variety) to cars to Santa’s Workshop...