Congreve Rolling Ball Clock
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 9, 2019
In the early 19th century, an Englishman named Sir William Congreve invented an unusual clock that kept time using balls rolling down an inc...
China’s Misguided War Against Sparrows
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2019
These panel of images from the late 1950s China, depicting young boys hunting sparrows for sport, were taken from a poster aimed at school ...
A Short History of Showering
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 8, 2019
Personal hygiene hasn’t always been an integral part of grooming, yet the need to clean oneself easily and quickly was as pressing in ancien...
Cascata delle Marmore: A Man-Made Waterfalls Created by Ancient Romans
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2019
About 8 kilometers east from the city of Terni, in the Umbria region of Italy, is a beautiful three-tiered waterfalls called Cascata delle M...
Forma Urbis: Rome’s Giant Marble Map
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 7, 2019
A modern illustration of the Temple of Peace with Forma Urbis, the giant map of Rome, on the wall. At the Roman Forum in the center of Rom...
SS Warrimoo: The Ship That Missed New Year’s Eve But Gained Two Centuries
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 4, 2019
The story that follows supposedly happened more than a hundred years ago on the eve of New Year. It spanned two centuries, yet was over in a...
The Photographers Who Braved Mount St. Helens
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2019
When Mount St. Helens erupted in the morning of May 18, 1980, a freelance photographer named Robert Landsberg was within four miles of the s...
Walt Disney’s Backyard Railway: The Carolwood Pacific Railroad
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2019
Even before Walt Disney drew up plans for the first Disneyland Park, he knew what to include in it—a rideable miniature railroad. Indeed, he...
Meat-Shaped Stone And Jadeite Cabbage
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2019
This mouth-watering chunk of stewed pork belly with a gratuitous layer of fat and glistening sheen is actually a piece of rock—jasper to be ...
The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 2, 2019
This enormous structure rising over the desert sands near the Euphrates River resembles a sandstone butte but is actually made of mud-brick...
