If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up ...

The history of science and technology links many disciplines and cultures: scientific, technological, humanistic and social. Smith’s program in the history of science and technology is designed to ...

Cameras, GPS, smartphones, microscopes — these everyday inventions have transformed how we live, connect, and create in today ...

For a lot of kids, history class can be boring. That’s usually because a strong focus on things that happened in the past can be hard to relate to — especially as an adolescent. To energize students ...

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1440: Gutenberg invents moveable type: Dates are sketchy on the Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed in the Western World from moveable type. But the Gutenberg Revolution marked the age of the ...

An Irish artist is breathing new life into old black and white photographs with technology that animates historical figures and family members. Matt Loughrey launched My Colorful Past in 2014 to ...

Editor’s note: This story appeared in the October 2021 edition of The Daily Universe Magazine. Gone are the days of using antique family history techniques to fill out a family tree as new technology ...