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"01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b651e896992", "title": "Galloping Gertie, or what the wind does to an airfoil", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/tacoma-narrows-collapse/", "published_at": "2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d06-7310-988e-8c42a8ab1091", "title": "The hands-free deadbolt, or what ultra-wideband did to the front door", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/uwb-homekey/", "published_at": "2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64d593728b", "title": "The tournament, or how France turned cavalry drill into spectacle", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/medieval-tournament-1100/", "published_at": "2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b6547b72cd5", "title": "Swatch, 1983: the paper-towel sketch that saved Swiss watchmaking", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/swatch-1983/", "published_at": "2026-08-19T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b654c55b5d3", "title": "The 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2026

Linus Yale Sr.'s bank lock, or the pin-tumbler's American debutoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
The Rion-Antirrion Bridge: built to slideoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Peter Henlein's watch, or how a fugitive locksmith put time in your pocketoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
The Wool Runner and the twelve-word pitchoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Thirty billion parameters, no Wi-Fi: Qualcomm's Snapdragon Extreme Gen 6original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Rust, or how a broken elevator changed systems programmingoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
Emoji join Unicode, and writing returns to picturesoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
A Czech engineer and 100 billion wordsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
BMC Mini: the box that rewired the small caroriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Hello, Macintosh: the computer that spoke for itselforiginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
Claude Code, 2025: the bottleneck was never the typingoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
The language between agentsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2026
SWIFT and the end of the telex eraoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Minecraft: the blank canvas posted before sunriseoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
The Signal Protocol and the ratchet that forgets on purposeoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Schlage's bored lock, or how thirty dollars changed the front doororiginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Millau Viaduct: a motorway taller than the Eiffel Toweroriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Google Street View and the view from the curboriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The midsole grown from lightoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
What time is it on the Moonoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Achille Gaggia and the cream nobody orderedoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
UTF-8: the encoding designed on a New Jersey diner placematoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Fourteen million photographs and a bedroom in Torontooriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Go, or how a forty-five-minute build became a programming languageoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Citroën DS: the goddess at the 1955 Paris Motor Showoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
The IBM PC: the standard nobody plannedoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Zed, 2023: the editor written from scratch in Rustoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
The last connectororiginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Nixon shuts the gold window: the weekend the dollar cut looseoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Rijndael, or how Belgium quietly became the world's locksmithoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Angry Birds, or the game that proved anyone could be a gameroriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, or the metre an earthquake addedoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
The lock that reads your veinsoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Google Maps: the map you could dragoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Calcio storico: the first printed rulebook for a team ball gameoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Nike's Vaporfly and the carbon-plate supershoeoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The nucleus as clock: thorium-229 and the end of atomic timekeeping's monopolyoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
iPhone Duo: Apple's first foldoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
Nescafé, or how Brazil's burning surplus became everyone's instant coffeeoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Unicode 1.0: one table for every script on earthoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Support-vector networks: the margin that held for fifteen yearsoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
PHP: the afternoon project that runs half the internetoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
Michelin's flytrap: the tyre the industry couldn't copyoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The Apple I, or the board Steve Wozniak almost gave awayoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The model in the middleoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Windsurf, 2024: the editor that broke a $3 billion dealoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The hole in the wall: Barclays Bank, Enfield, 1967original ↗
4 Sept 2026
SHA-1 and the fix the NSA never explainedoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
The Nintendo Wii, or the console designed for people who don't play consolesoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
The Humber Bridge and the curvature of the Earthoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
SPG Keyless, or the hotel room that opened without a cardoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
The Nokia 2110, or how a dead guitarist's exercise became a ringtoneoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
HOKA One One: the clown shoe that changed runningoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Apple Watch, 2015: the wristwatch that became a medical deviceoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
The brass pot and the blotting paper: Melitta Bentz's 1908 coffee filteroriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
ASCII: the seven-bit truce that taught computers to speakoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
JavaScript: the language that lied about its nameoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
Deep Blue beats Kasparov: the night the clock ran out on chess as a hard problemoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
The 260 D: the first diesel passenger caroriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Altair 8800: the empty box that started an industryoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Five milliseconds from everywhereoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Cursor, 2023: the editor that already read the whole codebaseoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
The Fresno Drop: how BankAmericard became Visaoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Shor's algorithm: the quantum proof that gave RSA a deadlineoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
World of Warcraft and the accidental epidemicoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Isle of Man TT 1907: the race that Britain couldn't holdoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
The Mackinac Bridge, or how Michigan became one stateoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
OpenStreetMap: the map a bicycle startedoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
Aliro 1.0: the open standard that ended the key warsoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2026
The last joust: how a broken lance ended a king and a sportoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
The Reebok Pump: fit by inflationoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
GPS time: the satellite clock that runs wrong on purposeoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
Samsung's Z TriFold: the phone that folds twiceoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
Sholes's typewriter: the machine that froze the alphabetoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
Hidden Markov models, 1989: probability beats the rule booksoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
Java: the language that almost ran your televisionoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2026
The car that erased its own chassisoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Intel 4004: the calculator deal that built the first microprocessororiginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
The ledger that never forgetsoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
The Language Server Protocol, or how Microsoft solved an infinite gridoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
One card, many places, pay later: the Diners Club, 1950original ↗
21 Aug 2026
Elliptic curve cryptography, or how a factoring attack became the internet's keyoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
The original Xbox, or how Microsoft lost four billion dollars and still wonoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
Galloping Gertie, or what the wind does to an airfoiloriginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
The hands-free deadbolt, or what ultra-wideband did to the front doororiginal ↗
20 Aug 2026
The tournament, or how France turned cavalry drill into spectacleoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
Swatch, 1983: the paper-towel sketch that saved Swiss watchmakingoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
The Air Jordan I: the $5,000 fine Nike paid gladlyoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
The cell tower in orbitoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2026
Morse code, or the first writing system designed by dataoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Bezzera's portafilter and the machine that gave espresso its nameoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
The second AI winteroriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Ruby: the language designed for the person, not the machineoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Federal Aid Road Act: the law that fixed the mudoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
ARPANET: the night the network typed 'lo'original ↗
17 Aug 2026
Turbo Pascal, or the compiler that never touched the diskoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
AWS Lambda: the server that wasn't thereoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
Bretton Woods, or how the dollar got its throneoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
RSA, or the Passover night that locked the internetoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
The Sims, or the game an EA executive kept trying to killoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
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