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While we may all be familiar with the unicycle, a single-wheeled vehicle that was invented as a spin-off of the Penny Farthing bicycle back during the eighteenth century, there has yet to be another one-wheeled vehicle in working existence. However,...

What’s the difference between porcelain, china, and bone china? It’s largely in how they are made; this article has a lot of interesting details, but the basic idea is that porcelain is very functional, china is a special kind of...

When we think of mechanical automation and robots of today’s era, we often think of Boston Dynamics and their BigDog robot. This is a stable, military-grade robot that can move and walk across rough terrain. Its intention or purpose was...

Back in November of 1909, the New York Times Newspaper ran a very peculiar headline about a hypnotized man who was declared dead in the morgue with a still-beating heart. This man’s name was Robert Simpson, a piano mover and...

When the US Navy started using nuclear submarines, it was important that the personnel be absolutely top-notch. In the early years, a man named Hyman Rickover made “strange” interviews the norm for his department. By asking odd questions, switching gears suddenly, and flipping out over the slightest thing, he picked the interviewees who were the most calm and collected, and in the process created a submarine class with no reported accidents.

In a Nutshell We have often given the ancestors of domestic dogs little credit, viewing them as savage killers. More enlightened views may see wolves as predators that cull the herds of sick or weak animals. However, wolves are actually...

Sanitation is a very important basic right that involves the safe management of waste, collected from the toilet, and disposed of safely. Proper waste management, will help control diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and typhoid. These diseases, currently affect an...

Every year the competition between the car manufacturers gets stronger while they strife to build the best designs that fit all the needs of customers from the automobile market, that means building the best cars that balance all the elements...

First things first. Let’s understand what causes a war. Economic gain, Territorial gain, Revolutionary ideas are some of the elements which cause war and we see a point in them. But, wait, history has also witnessed a ton of wars...

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the kings’ horses and all the kings man, Couldn’t put humpty together again.” Since childhood we have heard of this amazing poem and many others, but when...