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The Antikythera Mechanism: Ancient Greece’s Impossible Machine
In 1901, sponge divers exploring a Roman-era shipwreck off a small Greek island pulled up a corroded lump of bronze that looked, at first glance, like scrap. It would take almost a century of study, and eventually X-ray imaging, to…
The Radium Girls: The Workers Who Exposed an Industry
In the early 20th century, young women lined up for one of the best-paying factory jobs available to them: painting watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint. To keep a fine point on their brushes, workers were instructed to twirl the…
Buster Keaton and the Birth of Physical Comedy
Long before modern stunt coordinators and safety rigs, silent film star Buster Keaton was throwing himself into some of the most dangerous physical comedy ever put on camera — and doing his own stunts. In one famous scene, the facade…