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In 1948, Clair Patterson was a graduate student at the University of Chicago with a deceptively simple assignment from his advisor Harrison Brown: measure the age of the Earth by counting lead isotopes in meteorites. Brown told him the work would be “duck soup.” It was not. Every sample Patterson touched in his dusty corner […]

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In 1956, IBM showed businesses a refrigerator-sized storage cabinet that could reach a record in less than a second instead of forcing clerks to shuffle through trays of punched cards. The IBM 305 RAMAC system and its IBM 350 disk storage unit turned fifty spinning aluminum platters into something that looked, for the first time, […]

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On June 3, 1977, Ann Druyan sat for an hour-long recording session in New York while instruments captured the electrical activity of her brain and body. Two days earlier, she and Carl Sagan had decided over the telephone that they would marry. During the recording, she followed a mental script about Earth, life, civilization, war, […]

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The Apollo Guidance Computer that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Sea of Tranquility in July 1969 ran on software that had been physically sewn into its memory by women sitting at workbenches in a Raytheon factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. Each one of them threaded thin copper wires through, or around, tiny ferrite […]

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On the morning of September 6, 1976, a Soviet Air Defense Forces lieutenant named Viktor Belenko shoved the throttles forward on a MiG-25 Foxbat, peeled away from a training flight over the Sea of Japan, and brought the most feared interceptor in the Soviet arsenal down on the runway at Hakodate Airport with fuel running […]

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