Published on March 3, 2024, 7:52 a.m.
Before we waged a war on it, dust was simply a fact of life, a quiet blanket that settled over the surfaces of a pre-industrial…
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Published on March 3, 2024, 7:52 a.m.
Before we waged a war on it, dust was simply a fact of life, a quiet blanket that settled over the surfaces of a pre-industrial…
Published on Sept. 23, 2024, 2:42 p.m.
For centuries, our battle with dust was a losing one. It was an endless, unwinnable war waged with brooms that merely relocated…
Published on Aug. 10, 2023, 7:23 p.m.
At the dawn of the 20th century, cleaning a London theater carpet required a monumental effort. It involved a team of men, a ro…
Published on Aug. 8, 2023, 9:14 p.m.
It begins not in a sterile laboratory or a high-tech design studio, but in a dusty crockery shop in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The…
Published on July 17, 2025, 5:45 p.m.
In the glossy pages of mid-century magazines, the future of the home was a gleaming, automated utopia. Sleek, vaguely humanoid …
Published on July 17, 2025, 10:25 a.m.
For decades, it was a persistent, shimmering dream, a staple of World’s Fair exhibits and science fiction fantasies: the automa…
Published on July 17, 2025, 7:39 a.m.
It begins with a roar. A deep, room-shaking groan that sends pets scattering for cover. For anyone who grew up in the last cent…
Published on July 17, 2025, 6:14 a.m.
Picture the year 1996. In a BBC television studio, a strange, scarlet disc glides across the floor, methodically navigating aro…
Published on July 23, 2024, 4:49 a.m.
In 1901, as London choked on the coal dust of the industrial age, an engineer named Hubert Cecil Booth watched a demonstration …
Published on Aug. 9, 2023, 7:31 p.m.
Picture the dawn of the modern age. It’s a world of iron and coal, of deafening noise and boundless ambition, all driven by a s…
Published on Aug. 10, 2023, 12:51 p.m.
Picture the scene: a cavernous 19th-century train station, air thick with coal smoke and anticipation. A colossal steam locomot…
Published on Dec. 13, 2024, 2:49 p.m.
You could say it all began with a kettle. The story, perhaps a touch romanticized, tells of a young James Watt in the 18th cent…
Published on Dec. 13, 2024, 1:31 p.m.
Take a moment and breathe in. The air in your home is likely fresh, clear, and unthreatening. It’s a simple luxury we rarely co…
Published on Dec. 10, 2024, 12:29 p.m.
For nearly two thousand years, the Roman baths stood as the pinnacle of engineered comfort. They were vast, marble-clad palaces…
Published on Dec. 10, 2024, 8:28 a.m.
There’s a ghost in your house. It’s a silent, invisible entity, humming quietly in a closet or lurking in a corner of the basem…
Published on Dec. 10, 2024, 8:12 a.m.
There's a quiet magic in the modern home, an act of casual alchemy we perform daily without a second thought. You turn a handle…
Published on Dec. 10, 2024, 10:03 a.m.
There's a certain magic to modern technology. You whisper a question into your device and an answer materializes. You search yo…
Published on Dec. 9, 2024, 4:28 p.m.
For the better part of a century, it has lived in the dark corners of our homes: the basement, the utility closet, the garage. …
Published on Dec. 9, 2024, 4:11 p.m.
It begins in darkness, with a single drop of water. It rests, cold and still, in the subterranean chill of a municipal pipe, ho…
Published on Dec. 9, 2024, 3:57 p.m.
For anyone who grew up in a house with a basement, there was a sound. It was a low, guttural rumble, followed by a resonant *wh…