Front Range rail is nostalgic but will 19th century technology answer 21st century challenges? (Opinion)

Passenger rail has many skeptics. Once you get to Fort Collins, for example, how do you get to your ultimate destination if ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2075: Rudolph Ackerman

Episode: 2075 Rudolph Ackerman and his amazing chronicles of 19th-century art and technology. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells us about a great chronicler of technology and art ...
National Catholic Reporter

19th-century Catholic teachings, 21st-century tech: How concerns about AI guided Pope Leo's choice of name

When Robert Francis Prevost chose the papal name Leo XIV, it could have meant many things. There were 13 Leos before him: The first, Leo the Great, was a fifth-century theologian who helped heal the ...
Techno-Science.net on MSN

A century solar storm threatens to send us back to the 19th century

Our daily lives rely on ubiquitous technologies, from smartphones to navigation systems, becoming more indispensable every ...
Washington Technology

Arlington Cemetery: 19th-century technology in a 21st-century world

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and the other members of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Contracting Oversight Subcommittee were again upset on July 29 by the problems of ...
Ars Technica

How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly

London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 attracted some 6 million people eager to experience more than 14,000 exhibitors showcasing 19th-century marvels of technology and engineering. The event took place in ...
OnMilwaukee

These cool photos picture 21st century Milwaukee through a 19th century lens

Photographer Eric Baillies' 'Temporal Bridge - Shadows of Milwaukee' exhibition, which opens on June 5, offers views of 21st century Milwaukee captured with 19th century technology. You just may do a ...