| "The last Olympiad, 393 CE" |
$1.111 |
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$0.0018 |
$1.11 |
| "Apple Intelligence, or the phone that learned to write back" |
$0.944 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.95 |
| "Peter Henlein's pocket watch, or how time learned to travel" |
$0.91 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.91 |
| "The Nike Air sole: Frank Rudy's twenty-fourth pitch" |
$0.707 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.71 |
| "A large shop in Tahtakale: Istanbul's first coffeehouse" |
$1.075 |
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$0.0018 |
$1.08 |
| "Python: born in an empty office over Christmas 1989" |
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$0.86 |
| "Pitman's shorthand, or writing faster than speech" |
$0.797 |
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$0.0023 |
$0.8 |
| "Backpropagation, 1986: the algorithm that revived neural networks" |
$1.161 |
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$0.002 |
$1.16 |
| "Ford's moving assembly line: 12.5 hours to 93 minutes" |
$0.938 |
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$0.94 |
| "Kubernetes: the helmsman Google almost didn't ship" |
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$0.94 |
| "Visual Studio Code: how a failing browser editor became the one everyone uses" |
$0.991 |
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| "The Mother of All Demos, or the ninety minutes nobody was quite ready for" |
$1.029 |
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$0.0019 |
$1.03 |
| "Half-Life, or how Valve put the story inside the corridors" |
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| "Diffie, Hellman, and the key two strangers can share" |
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| "The Federal Reserve, or the duck hunt that never happened" |
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$0.87 |
| "Harley-Davidson and the ten-by-fifteen shed" |
$1.136 |
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$1.14 |
| "Al-Idrisi's silver map, or how a Norman king bought the world" |
$1.009 |
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$0.0019 |
$1.01 |
| "No springs: Emil Henriksson's disc detainer lock, Helsinki, 1907" |
$1.198 |
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$0.0019 |
$1.2 |
| "Sydney's Iron Lung" |
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| "The phone learns to think for itself" |
$1.108 |
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$0.0019 |
$1.11 |
| "Seiko Astron: the wristwatch that rewrote time" |
$0.977 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.98 |
| "The waffle iron that launched Nike" |
$1.983 |
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$0.0019 |
$1.99 |
| "The espresso machine Moriondo kept to himself" |
$1.083 |
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$1.09 |
| "Perl: what Larry Wall built when nothing else was quite right" |
$1.069 |
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$1.07 |
| "Braille, or how six dots in two columns gave the blind a language" |
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$0 |
$0.0017 |
$0.9 |
| "Cyc: Douglas Lenat's thirty-year project to hand-write common sense" |
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$1.13 |
| "Ford Model T: the car for the great multitude" |
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| "The article that named microservices" |
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$1.1 |
| "Atom: the hackable text editor that accidentally built a platform" |
$0.975 |
$0.0013 |
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| "GoldenEye 007: the movie tie-in that built the console shooter" |
$1.063 |
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$1.07 |
| "Shannon's 1949 paper, and the price of a perfect cipher" |
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| "Not worth a Continental" |
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$0.0023 |
$1.24 |
| "Springfield, 1901: the birth of Indian Motorcycle" |
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$0.86 |
| "Navstar 1 and the clock that tells you where to turn" |
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$0.84 |
| "The key in your phone: digital car keys and Apple HomeKey" |
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| "The Forth Bridge: steel, cantilevers, and a lesson from the Tay" |
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| "Pankration: the sport with one rule (well, two)" |
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| "Samsung bets $1,980 on a crease" |
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| "Essen's Flying Bedstead and the death of the astronomical second" |
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| "Chopines, or the politics of walking tall" |
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$0.63 |
| "Tea at the bottom of Boston Harbour" |
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| "C++: the language Simula made necessary and C made possible" |
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$0.76 |
| "Gutenberg's press: forty-two lines that changed Europe" |
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$1.01 |
| "MYCIN, or the physician who never saw a patient" |
$1.171 |
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$1.17 |
| "The Curved Dash Oldsmobile: America's first mass-produced car" |
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$0.0019 |
$0.84 |
| "Docker: the container that shipped the machine" |
$1.022 |
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$1.03 |
| "Sublime Text, or the text editor that left Google to reinvent itself" |
$1.027 |
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$1.03 |
| "UNIVAC predicts an Eisenhower landslide" |
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| "The PlayStation: how humiliation in Chicago gave Sony its most profitable product" |
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$0.91 |
| "Colossus, and the operator who handed Bletchley Park a crowbar" |
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$1.06 |
| "Newton's guinea, or how a mathematician's arithmetic error invented the gold standard" |
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| "Hildebrand & Wolfmüller: the first motorcycle you could buy" |
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$0.71 |
| "Landsat 1: the satellite that corrected the charts" |
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$0.84 |
| "The August lock, or the year the key went digital" |
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| "The Garabit Viaduct, or the bridge that proved the Tower" |
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| "The pentathlon at Olympia, and a jump no one has explained" |
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| "There's an app for that: Apple's App Store and the invention of the platform economy" |
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$0.81 |
| "The quartz clock and the wobbling Earth" |
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$1.36 |
| "The Dassler brothers' shoe factory, and the feud that split a town" |
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$0.78 |
| "SHRDLU, 1970: the blocks world where a machine first appeared to understand" |
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$1.53 |
| "Paris–Rouen, 1894: the race that decided what a car should be" |
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| "The machine that learned to break itself" |
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| "TextMate: the grammar every editor learned to speak" |
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$0.8 |
| "The Manchester Baby and the first stored program" |
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| "Myst and the CD-ROM that changed who played games" |
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$0.68 |
| "Turing's Bombe: the machine that solved by elimination" |
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$1.04 |
| "The Bank of England, or the twelve-day loan that never ended" |
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| "Aerial photogrammetry: the camera that replaced the surveyor" |
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$1.15 |
| "The transponder key, or how Ford put the lock inside the engine" |
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| "The Brooklyn Bridge, or how Washington Roebling directed the world's longest span from a sickroom" |
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$1.26 |
| "The first Olympic footrace, and the cook who won it" |
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| "The G1, or what happens when you give a phone OS away for free" |
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| "The wristwatch goes to war" |
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$0.7 |
| "The Converse All-Star, or what forty years on the road built" |
$1.174 |
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$1.18 |
| "SQL, or the language that outlived one of its authors" |
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| "Hangul, or the alphabet that came with a user manual" |
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| "Minsky and Papert draw the line a perceptron cannot cross" |
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| "The Duryea Motor Wagon: the first American gasoline automobile" |
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| "Amazon's API mandate" |
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| "IntelliJ IDEA: the IDE that knew what you meant" |
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| "The transistor: a razor blade, some gold foil, and the death of the vacuum tube" |
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| "DOOM: the midnight upload that crashed a university server and founded a genre" |
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| "Marian Rejewski breaks Enigma" |
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| "The Amsterdam Wisselbank, or where money learned to live in a ledger" |
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| "The Daimler Reitwagen" |
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| "Beck's Underground map: the diagram that replaced the map" |
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| "The hotel cardkey, invented because someone forgot to fix a lock" |
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| "The Menai Suspension Bridge, or how Telford hung a road from iron chains" |
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| "The bull-leaper of Knossos" |
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| "Three products in a pocket: the original iPhone" |
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| "The Waltham watch factory, or how time stopped being a luxury" |
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| "The shoe that earned its name in silence" |
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| "Carolingian minuscule, or how a monk from York gave us lowercase letters" |
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| "John McCarthy builds LISP, and AI gets its first native language" |
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| "Bertha Benz and the first road trip" |
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| "The spy at Snowbird" |
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| "Eclipse, or the IDE that cost IBM $40 million and then became free" |
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| "The report that named an architecture and killed a patent" |
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| "Game Boy: the gray brick that bet on batteries and won" |
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| "The ADFGVX cipher, or how Germany's most complex field cipher fell to a former fossil specialist" |
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| "Luca Pacioli's Summa and the double-entry ledger" |
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| "Lucius Copeland's steam motorcycle" |
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| "The Ordnance Survey: how Britain measured itself into existence" |
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| "Medeco and the key you couldn't copy" |
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| "The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, or how Telford carried a canal 127 feet above the Dee" |
$0.806 |
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| "Eight clay ballplayers and the world's first court" |
$1.185 |
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| "Nokia 3310: the phone designed with a smile" |
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| "Henlein's pocket clock, or the day time left the tower" |
$0.751 |
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| "Jan Matzeliger's lasting machine, or the grammar of a craftsman's hands" |
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| "The sergeant major and the five coffee plants" |
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| "C, or the language that gave Unix a skeleton" |
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| "Arabic script: a king's epitaph in the Syrian desert" |
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| "Rosenblatt's perceptron: the machine that could learn" |
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| "Daimler's motor carriage: the first four-wheeled petrol vehicle, Bad Cannstatt, 1886" |
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| "Service-oriented architecture: three specifications and a decade of optimism" |
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| "Visual Studio 97: five languages, one box" |
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| "ENIAC: the thirty-ton computer and the six who weren't invited" |
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| "Sega Genesis and the console wars: how a hedgehog took half the market from Nintendo" |
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| "The Zimmermann Telegram, or how a decoded cable brought America into the war" |
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| "The Medici Bank and the invention of modern finance" |
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| "Perreaux's steam velocipede" |
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| "The Cassini survey: four generations to map a kingdom" |
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| "Soref's laminated padlock, or how a Milwaukee workshop closed the security gap" |
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| "The Iron Bridge, or how a Shropshire gorge became the template for everything that followed" |
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| "Beni Hasan's wall of wrestlers: Egypt's oldest sports record" |
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| "BlackBerry 850: the device that made email check you" |
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| "Breguet's wristwatch, or the timepiece that arrived fifty years too soon" |
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| "The welt that made shoes worth keeping" |
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| "Gabriel de Clieu's water ration" |
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| "Smalltalk and the machine it was built for" |
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| "One script for all China: the Qin standardization, 221 BCE" |
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| "Samuel's checkers player: the program that coined machine learning" |
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| "Benz Patent-Motorwagen: a wall in Mannheim and the birth certificate of the automobile" |
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| "The dissertation that named the web" |
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| "Sylvester Roper's steam velocipede" |
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| "Mongolian wrestling and the world's first crowd" |
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| "Vim: from Vi IMitation to Vi IMproved" |
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| "Harvard Mark I: the machine that took up a wall" |
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| "The Nintendo Entertainment System, or the console Nintendo refused to call a console" |
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| "Frank Miller's one-time pad" |
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| "Marco Polo and the money made of trees" |
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| "Mercator's projection: the map that straightened the sea" |
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| "Sargent's time lock, or how a Rochester locksmith made coercion useless" |
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| "Kintai-kyō: the five wooden arches of Iwakuni" |
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| "IBM Simon, or the first computer you could also make calls on" |
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| "John Harrison's H4 and the Longitude Prize" |
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| "The McKay stitcher, or how a hollow needle ended the age of the hand-sewn shoe" |
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| "Dead on arrival: how the VOC broke Yemen's coffee monopoly" |
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| "BASIC, or the language designed to be learned in an afternoon" |
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| "Brahmi script: from Ashoka's pillars to three billion living letters" |
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| "The Logic Theorist: a machine that proved theorems before AI had a name" |
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| "Lenoir's Hippomobile: eleven kilometres on a coal-gas engine" |
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| "Enterprise JavaBeans and the era of the application server" |
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| "BBEdit, or what a cancelled compiler left behind" |
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| "Colossus: the machine that Britain built, classified, and ordered destroyed" |
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| "The video game crash of 1983" |
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| "The Playfair cipher, or the one the Foreign Office refused" |
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| "The jiaozi, or what happens when your money needs its own ox cart" |
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| "The map that named America" |
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| "Yale's cylinder lock, or how the portrait painter solved the front door" |
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| "Pont Neuf: the bridge that gave Paris its river back" |
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| "The DynaTAC 8000X, or the phone that finally left the car" |
$1.104 |
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| "Huygens's pendulum clock: fifteen minutes become fifteen seconds" |
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| "The straight last: when shoes finally learned left from right" |
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| "Seven beans and a long walk from Mocha" |
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$0.0017 |
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| "ALGOL 60: an improvement on nearly all its successors" |
$1.553 |
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| "Latin alphabet: how a borrowed script conquered the world" |
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| "Dartmouth, 1956: the summer that named a field" |
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| "Hancock's Enterprise: London's first scheduled motor bus" |
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| "Design Patterns: the catalog that gave software a common language" |
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| "Brief, or the keyboard that other editors had to imitate" |
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| "Konrad Zuse's Z3: the computer the war didn't notice" |
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| "Donkey Kong: the game that made Nintendo" |
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| "Jefferson's wheel cipher, or the invention the army made twice" |
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| "The Arab dinar, or the coin that erased the emperor's face" |
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| "The Hereford Mappa Mundi: the world as it was meant to be" |
$0.679 |
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$0.0018 |
$0.68 |
| "The Great Lock Controversy of 1851" |
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$0.73 |
| "The Rialto Bridge, or how Venice bet on a single arch" |
$0.724 |
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$0.73 |
| "Joel's handoff patent, or how the cellular network learned to keep a call alive" |
$0.877 |
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$0.88 |
| "Galileo's pendulum, or the clock he never lived to build" |
$0.835 |
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$0.0018 |
$0.84 |
| "Louis XIV's red heels: when footwear was a court credential" |
$0.837 |
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$0.0018 |
$0.84 |
| "Pasqua Rosée and London's first coffeehouse" |
$0.927 |
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$0.93 |
| "COBOL, or how a committee invented the world's most durable programming language" |
$0.698 |
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$0.7 |
| "The Greek alphabet, or how borrowed consonants became the world's first vowels" |
$0.985 |
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$0.002 |
$0.99 |
| "Shannon's chess paper and the problem it was really solving" |
$0.823 |
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$0.0019 |
$0.83 |
| "De Rivaz's hydrogen carriage: the first internal-combustion automobile" |
$1.061 |
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$0.0018 |
$1.06 |
| "Three-tier architecture, or how the application server ate the fat client" |
$0.987 |
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| "Alice Pascal: the editor that refused to let you make a mistake" |
$2.368 |
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$0.002 |
$2.37 |
| "The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or the basement machine that unmade ENIAC" |
$0.74 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.74 |
| "Pac-Man, or the game designed for people who didn't play games" |
$0.843 |
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$0.0019 |
$0.85 |
| "Bellaso's cipher, or three centuries filed under the wrong name" |
$0.912 |
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$0.0021 |
$0.92 |
| "The Byzantine solidus: the gold coin that ran the medieval world" |
$0.658 |
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$0.002 |
$0.66 |
| "The Book of Roger: al-Idrisi maps the world in silver" |
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| "The Chubb Detector lock: security with a memory" |
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$0.75 |
| "Old London Bridge, the crossing that became a city" |
$0.828 |
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$0.83 |
| "Touch-Tone: Bell's push-button phone and the day dialing became a command" |
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| "Peter Henlein's pomander, or the clock that fit in a hand" |
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$0.002 |
$0.81 |
| "The chopine, or how Venice balanced status on a fifty-centimetre platform" |
$0.638 |
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$0.0021 |
$0.64 |
| "Hakem, Shems, and the first coffeehouse" |
$1.142 |
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$0.0019 |
$1.14 |
| "Lisp, or the language that ran before anyone knew it could" |
$1.002 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0023 |
$1.01 |
| "The Phoenician alphabet, or how twenty-two consonants built the rest" |
$0.874 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.88 |
| "Turing's imitation game" |
$0.724 |
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$0.73 |
| "Trevithick's Puffing Devil: up Camborne Hill on Christmas Eve" |
$0.932 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.94 |
| "Seven boxes in Washington" |
$1.086 |
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| "Turbo Pascal: the whole IDE in thirty-eight kilobytes" |
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| "Shannon's switching circuits, 1937" |
$0.881 |
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$0.002 |
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| "Space Invaders: the glitch Nishikado kept" |
$0.656 |
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$0.002 |
$0.66 |
| "Trithemius's Polygraphia: the abbot's grid that launched three centuries of polyalphabetic ciphers" |
$1.187 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0023 |
$1.19 |
| "The aureus and the long debasement" |
$1.377 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.38 |
| "Tabula Peutingeriana: seven metres of Roman roads" |
$0.745 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.75 |
| "Bramah's challenge lock: a 200-guinea dare that stood for sixty-seven years" |
$0.91 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.91 |
| "Anji Bridge: the flattest arch in the ancient world" |
$1.429 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.43 |
| "The Salisbury clock, or the machine that forgot to have a face" |
$0.782 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0023 |
$0.79 |
| "The poulaine, or how a pointed toe became a matter for Parliament" |
$0.769 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.77 |
| Qahwa and the Sufi monks of Aden |
$1.107 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$1.11 |
| "Fortran, or the compiler nobody believed in" |
$0.897 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0024 |
$0.9 |
| "Oracle bone script, or how the Shang talked to their ancestors" |
$1.043 |
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$0.0021 |
$1.05 |
| "McCulloch and Pitts, or a mind made of thresholds" |
$1.173 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.18 |
| Cugnot's fardier: the first machine to move under its own power |
$0.669 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.67 |
| The machine at the end of the hallway |
$1.164 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$1.17 |
| "EMACS, or the macro that became an editor" |
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$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.97 |
| The trust that outgrew its name |
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$0.002 |
$0.98 |
| "The Atari 2600, or the machine Bushnell sold Atari to build" |
$1.286 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$1.29 |
| "Alberti's cipher disk: the wheel that broke frequency analysis" |
$0.775 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.78 |
| The Roman denarius, or the coin that named money |
$0.832 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.83 |
| Ptolemy's Geography and the grid that outlasted Rome |
$0.8 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0022 |
$0.8 |
| The precise lift, or how a Hoxton locksmith beat the pick |
$0.918 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.92 |
| The car phone, or how eighty pounds of vacuum tubes first put a telephone on the road |
$1.084 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.09 |
| The mechanical escapement, or when clocks learned to tick |
$0.882 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
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| The turnshoe, or how medieval cordwainers sewed the seam inside |
$0.772 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.78 |
| The first assembler |
$0.934 |
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$0.002 |
$0.94 |
| The Indus Valley script, or what five signs can hide |
$1.018 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$1.02 |
| "Turing's machine, or the question no algorithm can answer" |
$0.885 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.89 |
| What the module doesn't tell you |
$0.796 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.8 |
| "vi, or the editor that made modes out of necessity" |
$0.811 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.81 |
| Pong, or the game Alcorn built to learn his job |
$0.848 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.85 |
| "Al-Kindi's frequency analysis, or how counting letters broke every substitution cipher" |
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$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.69 |
| The ban liang, or the coin that outlasted its empire |
$0.77 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.77 |
| Eratosthenes measures the Earth, or how a shadow told the whole story |
$0.973 |
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$0.0017 |
$0.98 |
| The guild masterpiece, or the keyhole that wasn't there |
$0.874 |
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$0.002 |
$0.88 |
| Trajan's Bridge, or how to cross a river by moving it first |
$0.82 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.82 |
| The call across the Atlantic, or how Rocky Point and Rugby shrank the ocean |
$1.083 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.09 |
| Su Song's clock tower, or the machine that told the whole sky |
$0.832 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.83 |
| Han dynasty silk shoes, or the hierarchy sewn into every sole |
$1.116 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.12 |
| Short Code, or the first time a machine did the translating |
$0.736 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.74 |
| Egyptian hieroglyphs, or how language learned to last |
$0.754 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.76 |
| Frege's Begriffsschrift |
$0.935 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.94 |
| Simula 67, or how a Norwegian harbor simulation gave software its objects |
$0.812 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.81 |
| "ed: the editor that still ships with every Unix" |
$0.885 |
$0.0013 |
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| "The Hollerith tabulator, or how counting Americans built a company called IBM" |
$0.795 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.8 |
| Computer Space, the world's first coin-operated video game |
$0.882 |
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$0.0022 |
$0.89 |
| "The Kama Sutra cipher, or why secret writing was the forty-fourth art" |
$0.64 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0022 |
$0.64 |
| The Lydian stater |
$0.761 |
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$0.0019 |
$0.76 |
| The incense clock, or how China measured the night in smoke |
$0.661 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0017 |
$0.66 |
| The barbed-spring padlock |
$0.775 |
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$0.0017 |
$0.78 |
| The Pont du Gard, or how Rome moved a river across a gorge |
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$0.0019 |
$0.9 |
| Ctesibius's clepsydra, or the water clock that fixed itself |
$0.676 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.68 |
| The wheel that replaced the operator |
$0.907 |
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$0.0022 |
$0.91 |
| Roman caligae, or why the empire marched on hobnails |
$0.742 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0022 |
$0.75 |
| Plankalkül, or how to invent a programming language during an air raid |
$0.838 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.84 |
| "Cuneiform: the script that could say your name" |
$0.801 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.8 |
| Boole's algebra of thought |
$0.561 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.56 |
| What the flowchart hides |
$0.867 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.87 |
| QED, or how fifteen years of mathematics became a search command |
$0.698 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.7 |
| Ada Lovelace's Notes on an engine that never ran |
$0.661 |
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$0.0021 |
$0.66 |
| Spacewar!, or the game no one thought to sell |
$0.974 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.98 |
| The Caesar cipher, or how a shift of three kept Rome's orders from Gallic hands |
$0.738 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0017 |
$0.74 |
| The shell that circled the world |
$1.069 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$1.07 |
| Anaximander's world map, or how a philosopher drew the whole earth |
$1.185 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$1.19 |
| The Roman warded lock |
$0.807 |
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$0.0019 |
$0.81 |
| The Arkadiko bridge, or the oldest arch still standing |
$0.674 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.68 |
| The undertaker who put telephone operators out of a job |
$0.763 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.77 |
| The Egyptian clepsydra, or how priests told time without the sun |
$0.697 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.7 |
| The Mesopotamian shekel, or how a weight became money |
$0.69 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.69 |
| The scytale, or how Sparta encrypted its orders |
$0.528 |
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$0.002 |
$0.53 |
| The bridge at Girsu, or the world's oldest crossing |
$0.912 |
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$0.0018 |
$0.92 |
| The Babylonian world map, or how an empire drew the edge of everything |
$0.669 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0017 |
$0.67 |
| Greek krepis and kothornos — the shoe as theater |
$0.744 |
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$0.0017 |
$0.75 |
| Leibniz's calculus ratiocinator, or let us calculate who is right |
$0.775 |
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$0.78 |
| Babbage's Difference Engine, or the most expensive one-seventh of a calculator |
$0.734 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0022 |
$0.74 |
| "Structured programming: sequence, selection, iteration" |
$0.816 |
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| Tennis for Two, or the physicist who didn't notice what he'd done |
$0.478 |
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$0.0023 |
$0.48 |
| The New Haven exchange, or how a switchboard made from teapot lids wired a city |
$0.524 |
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$0.002 |
$0.53 |
| The letter that killed the goto |
$0.586 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.59 |
| OXO, or the video game that Cambridge kept to itself |
$0.541 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$0.54 |
| Bell's telephone, or how nine words traveled down a wire |
$0.559 |
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$0.0019 |
$0.56 |
| Ada Lovelace's Note G, or the first program for a machine that didn't exist |
$0.703 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0022 |
$0.71 |
| TECO, or the editor that was also a programming language |
$0.88 |
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$0.0019 |
$0.88 |
| The wooden lock, or the first machine for keeping people out |
$0.65 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0019 |
$0.65 |
| "Proto-cuneiform tokens: the first writing was a receipt" |
$1.018 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$1.02 |
| The shadow clock, or how Egypt turned sunlight into hours |
$1.233 |
$0.0013 |
$0.002 |
$1.24 |
| The Abauntz map, or how a hunter scratched the world onto a stone |
$0.743 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0017 |
$0.75 |
| Llull's Ars Magna, or how a troubadour built the first reasoning machine |
$0.58 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0022 |
$0.58 |
| Egyptian papyrus sandals — footwear as social code, c. 1500 BCE |
$0.57 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0018 |
$0.57 |
| The Jacquard loom, or how a silk weaver programmed a machine |
$0.482 |
$0.0013 |
$0.0021 |
$0.48 |
| HTTP200.Thepostislive. |
$0.655 |
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$0.0021 |
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