Caroline Hampton's Rubber Gloves
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 22, 2026
In the late nineteenth century, modern surgery was still emerging from an era in which hygiene was, by today’s standards, startlingly poor. ...
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Interstate 19: America's Only Metric Highway
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 6, 2026
The United States is often ridiculed for clinging to seemingly unintuitive units of measurement such as inches, miles, Fahrenheit, and pound...
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 5, 2026
Somewhere on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, buried beneath hundreds of feet of snow (or perhaps at the bottom of the ocean), lies an enor...
The Lost Forty: How an 1882 Surveying Error Saved a Patch of Forest from Logging
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 11, 2025
In the northern reaches of Minnesota, within the sprawling Chippewa National Forest, lies a rare remnant of America’s ecological past—a 144 ...
Ambrose Channel Pilot Cable
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 4, 2025
The Ambrose Channel pilot cable was an early 20th-century navigational aid installed on the seabed of New York Harbor’s Ambrose Channel, the...
Dicran Hadjy Kabakjian’s Radium House
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 28, 2025
In the early decades of the twentieth century, as radium fever gripped scientists and entrepreneurs alike, one Philadelphia businessman join...
The Niland Geyser: California's Wandering Mud Pot
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 18, 2025
In California’s Imperial Valley—an expanse of desert where geothermal energy, agriculture, and quiet rural towns coexist—lies one of the mos...
Tektite Habitat: The Pioneering Undersea Laboratory
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 17, 2025
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States conducted one of the most ambitious experiments in human undersea habitation: Project ...
Flak-Bait: The Most Resilient Aircraft of World War 2
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 4, 2025
The Martin B-26 Marauder was one of the most successful bombers operated by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. It was also one of...
The Invincible Bramah Lock
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2025
It is 1790, and you find yourself at 124 Piccadilly, London. As you stroll past the rows of shops, one window in particular catches your eye...
