Even if you’ve never so much as looked at a horse in your entire life, you’ve probably heard the term horsepower plenty of times. Whether it’s a car commercial or your friend talking about his fancy new lawnmower, it’s...
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Sarah Simonovich
The Roads Well-Traveled: The History of America’s Transportation Infrastructure
The timeline of road history is a long and winding one. Sometimes, the most important technologies are the ones you don’t think about. Or, you only think about them when you’re cursing them for not working properly...
Steam and STEAM: How We Can Power the Next Industrial Revolution
History repeats itself, they say. And they, of course, often attribute this to the mistakes we make. Humans like to make the same errors over and over, never learning from their mistakes. This is an incredibly...
A Brief History of Canned Food and How it Changed the Industry
Because we can, can, can Yes we can, can, can, can Can, can, can, can, can –Fatboy Slim Prior to the invention of refrigeration and artificial preservatives, humans still found ways to preserve their food. Such...
Industrial Innovations: the History of the Sewing Machine
Were you to make a list of some of the most important inventions of all time steel would probably be on that list. So would the lightbulb, antibiotics, the wheel, internal combustion engine, and, well, computers and the...
Technological Advances in the Oil and Energy Industry
Technological progress in the oil and energy industry lower production costs. In the 19th century, the industrial revolution discovered oil as a new source of energy. Engineers discovered how to drill and distribute...
Kendra Kuhar
New Jersey: The Birthplace of American Industry and Innovation
When we think of American innovation and technological advancement, California is really at the forefront of our minds. In this day and age, Silicon Valley is where it’s at: Apple, Tesla, eBay…from Fortune 1000...
The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Labor Day
As you fire up that grill in your white clothes and polarized sunglasses, you might casually wonder, how did we get here? No, not in some particularly deep, spiritual, or anthropological way. More like in a, it’s...
How the Staatliches Bauhaus Fused Art and Industrial Design
“If today’s arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form...
Oops There Goes Another Rubber Tree Plant: the History of Natural Rubber
He’s got high hopes…about rubber Rubber plays an important role in the function of your car (the tires). It played an important role in the development of stylish, waterproof rainwear. Without rubber, even...