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Timothy Dexter was businessman, but he had few business sense. He attempted to sell coal to Newcastle and bed warmers to the tropics. Yet, d...

For centuries, inventors have sought to create machines that could run forever without any external source of energy. These so-called “perpe...

Movabale letter types in a type case. This centuries-old method of type setting, although largely displaced by newer technologies, is s...

In the mid-18th century, the British Royal Navy was the most powerful maritime force in the world, but its dominance came at a high cost. Am...

A panoramic view of Black River in the fictional territory of Poyais. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons In the early 19th century, a Sc...