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"2026-06-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64e5312dc0", "title": "Galileo's pendulum, or the clock he never lived to build", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/galileo-pendulum-isochronism/", "published_at": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64ea647a05", "title": "Louis XIV's red heels: when footwear was a court credential", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/louis-xiv-red-heels/", "published_at": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b653bd3a664", "title": "Joel's handoff patent, or how the cellular network learned to keep a call alive", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/amos-joel-handoff-1972/", "published_at": "2026-06-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64c27bf630", "title": "The Greek alphabet, or how borrowed consonants became the world's first vowels", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/greek-alphabet/", "published_at": "2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64e89cdc05", "title": "Pasqua Rosée and London's first coffeehouse", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/pasqua-rosee-london-coffeehouse/", "published_at": "2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b6526339c5f", "title": "Shannon's chess paper and the problem it was really solving", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/shannon-chess-program-1950/", "published_at": "2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b652fd51ebc", "title": "COBOL, or how a committee invented the world's most durable programming language", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/cobol/", "published_at": "2026-06-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64f550721b", "title": "De Rivaz's hydrogen carriage: the first internal-combustion automobile", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/de-rivaz-hydrogen-carriage/", "published_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b651e2582ef", "title": "The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or the basement machine that unmade ENIAC", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/atanasoff-berry-computer/", "published_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b654d7856e2", "title": "Alice Pascal: the editor that refused to let you make a mistake", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/alice-pascal/", "published_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d06-7310-988e-8c4283d825cf", "title": "Three-tier architecture, or how the application server ate the fat client", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/three-tier-architecture/", "published_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64d05df3e3", "title": "The Byzantine solidus: the gold coin that ran the medieval world", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/the-byzantine-solidus/", "published_at": "2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64e134a9d2", "title": "Bellaso's cipher, or three centuries filed under the wrong name", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/bellaso-cipher-1553/", "published_at": "2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b65466f946d", "title": "Pac-Man, or the game designed for people who didn't play games", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/pac-man/", "published_at": "2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64d7a1195c", "title": "The Book of Roger: al-Idrisi maps the world in silver", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/tabula-rogeriana/", "published_at": "2026-05-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64d89af947", "title": "Old London Bridge, the crossing that became a city", "url": "https://thingshavehistory.com/posts/old-london-bridge/", "published_at": "2026-05-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08c54-5d05-715d-82d2-3b64f6cf79fe", "title": "The Chubb Detector lock: security with 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The spy at Snowbird original ↗

6 Jul 2026

Eclipse, or the IDE that cost IBM $40 million and then became free original ↗

6 Jul 2026

Luca Pacioli's Summa and the double-entry ledger original ↗

3 Jul 2026

The ADFGVX cipher, or how Germany's most complex field cipher fell to a former fossil specialist original ↗

3 Jul 2026

Game Boy: the gray brick that bet on batteries and won original ↗

3 Jul 2026

The Ordnance Survey: how Britain measured itself into existence original ↗

2 Jul 2026

The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, or how Telford carried a canal 127 feet above the Dee original ↗

2 Jul 2026

Lucius Copeland's steam motorcycle original ↗

2 Jul 2026

Medeco and the key you couldn't copy original ↗

2 Jul 2026

Eight clay ballplayers and the world's first court original ↗

1 Jul 2026

Henlein's pocket clock, or the day time left the tower original ↗

1 Jul 2026

Jan Matzeliger's lasting machine, or the grammar of a craftsman's hands original ↗

1 Jul 2026

Nokia 3310: the phone designed with a smile original ↗

1 Jul 2026

Arabic script: a king's epitaph in the Syrian desert original ↗

30 Jun 2026

The sergeant major and the five coffee plants original ↗

30 Jun 2026

Rosenblatt's perceptron: the machine that could learn original ↗

30 Jun 2026

C, or the language that gave Unix a skeleton original ↗

30 Jun 2026

Daimler's motor carriage: the first four-wheeled petrol vehicle, Bad Cannstatt, 1886 original ↗

29 Jun 2026

ENIAC: the thirty-ton computer and the six who weren't invited original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Visual Studio 97: five languages, one box original ↗

29 Jun 2026

Service-oriented architecture: three specifications and a decade of optimism original ↗

29 Jun 2026

The Medici Bank and the invention of modern finance original ↗

26 Jun 2026

The Zimmermann Telegram, or how a decoded cable brought America into the war original ↗

26 Jun 2026

Sega Genesis and the console wars: how a hedgehog took half the market from Nintendo original ↗

26 Jun 2026

The Cassini survey: four generations to map a kingdom original ↗

25 Jun 2026

The Iron Bridge, or how a Shropshire gorge became the template for everything that followed original ↗

25 Jun 2026

Perreaux's steam velocipede original ↗

25 Jun 2026

Soref's laminated padlock, or how a Milwaukee workshop closed the security gap original ↗

25 Jun 2026

Beni Hasan's wall of wrestlers: Egypt's oldest sports record original ↗

24 Jun 2026

Breguet's wristwatch, or the timepiece that arrived fifty years too soon original ↗

24 Jun 2026

The welt that made shoes worth keeping original ↗

24 Jun 2026

BlackBerry 850: the device that made email check you original ↗

24 Jun 2026

One script for all China: the Qin standardization, 221 BCE original ↗

23 Jun 2026

Gabriel de Clieu's water ration original ↗

23 Jun 2026

Samuel's checkers player: the program that coined machine learning original ↗

23 Jun 2026

Smalltalk and the machine it was built for original ↗

23 Jun 2026

Mongolian wrestling and the world's first crowd original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Sylvester Roper's steam velocipede original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Benz Patent-Motorwagen: a wall in Mannheim and the birth certificate of the automobile original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Harvard Mark I: the machine that took up a wall original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Vim: from Vi IMitation to Vi IMproved original ↗

22 Jun 2026

The dissertation that named the web original ↗

22 Jun 2026

Marco Polo and the money made of trees original ↗

19 Jun 2026

Frank Miller's one-time pad original ↗

19 Jun 2026

The Nintendo Entertainment System, or the console Nintendo refused to call a console original ↗

19 Jun 2026

Mercator's projection: the map that straightened the sea original ↗

18 Jun 2026

Kintai-kyō: the five wooden arches of Iwakuni original ↗

18 Jun 2026

Sargent's time lock, or how a Rochester locksmith made coercion useless original ↗

18 Jun 2026

John Harrison's H4 and the Longitude Prize original ↗

17 Jun 2026

The McKay stitcher, or how a hollow needle ended the age of the hand-sewn shoe original ↗

17 Jun 2026

IBM Simon, or the first computer you could also make calls on original ↗

17 Jun 2026

Brahmi script: from Ashoka's pillars to three billion living letters original ↗

16 Jun 2026

Dead on arrival: how the VOC broke Yemen's coffee monopoly original ↗

16 Jun 2026

The Logic Theorist: a machine that proved theorems before AI had a name original ↗

16 Jun 2026

BASIC, or the language designed to be learned in an afternoon original ↗

16 Jun 2026

Lenoir's Hippomobile: eleven kilometres on a coal-gas engine original ↗

15 Jun 2026

Colossus: the machine that Britain built, classified, and ordered destroyed original ↗

15 Jun 2026

BBEdit, or what a cancelled compiler left behind original ↗

15 Jun 2026

Enterprise JavaBeans and the era of the application server original ↗

15 Jun 2026

The jiaozi, or what happens when your money needs its own ox cart original ↗

12 Jun 2026

The Playfair cipher, or the one the Foreign Office refused original ↗

12 Jun 2026

The video game crash of 1983 original ↗

12 Jun 2026

The map that named America original ↗

11 Jun 2026

Pont Neuf: the bridge that gave Paris its river back original ↗

11 Jun 2026

Yale's cylinder lock, or how the portrait painter solved the front door original ↗

11 Jun 2026

Huygens's pendulum clock: fifteen minutes become fifteen seconds original ↗

10 Jun 2026

The straight last: when shoes finally learned left from right original ↗

10 Jun 2026

The DynaTAC 8000X, or the phone that finally left the car original ↗

10 Jun 2026

Latin alphabet: how a borrowed script conquered the world original ↗

9 Jun 2026

Seven beans and a long walk from Mocha original ↗

9 Jun 2026

Dartmouth, 1956: the summer that named a field original ↗

9 Jun 2026

ALGOL 60: an improvement on nearly all its successors original ↗

9 Jun 2026

Hancock's Enterprise: London's first scheduled motor bus original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Konrad Zuse's Z3: the computer the war didn't notice original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Brief, or the keyboard that other editors had to imitate original ↗

8 Jun 2026

Design Patterns: the catalog that gave software a common language original ↗

8 Jun 2026

The Arab dinar, or the coin that erased the emperor's face original ↗

5 Jun 2026

Jefferson's wheel cipher, or the invention the army made twice original ↗

5 Jun 2026

Donkey Kong: the game that made Nintendo original ↗

5 Jun 2026

The Hereford Mappa Mundi: the world as it was meant to be original ↗

4 Jun 2026

The Rialto Bridge, or how Venice bet on a single arch original ↗

4 Jun 2026

The Great Lock Controversy of 1851 original ↗

4 Jun 2026

Galileo's pendulum, or the clock he never lived to build original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Louis XIV's red heels: when footwear was a court credential original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Joel's handoff patent, or how the cellular network learned to keep a call alive original ↗

3 Jun 2026

The Greek alphabet, or how borrowed consonants became the world's first vowels original ↗

2 Jun 2026

Pasqua Rosée and London's first coffeehouse original ↗

2 Jun 2026

Shannon's chess paper and the problem it was really solving original ↗

2 Jun 2026

COBOL, or how a committee invented the world's most durable programming language original ↗

2 Jun 2026

De Rivaz's hydrogen carriage: the first internal-combustion automobile original ↗

1 Jun 2026

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer, or the basement machine that unmade ENIAC original ↗

1 Jun 2026

Alice Pascal: the editor that refused to let you make a mistake original ↗

1 Jun 2026

Three-tier architecture, or how the application server ate the fat client original ↗

1 Jun 2026

The Byzantine solidus: the gold coin that ran the medieval world original ↗

29 May 2026

Bellaso's cipher, or three centuries filed under the wrong name original ↗

29 May 2026

Pac-Man, or the game designed for people who didn't play games original ↗

29 May 2026

The Book of Roger: al-Idrisi maps the world in silver original ↗

28 May 2026

Old London Bridge, the crossing that became a city original ↗

28 May 2026

The Chubb Detector lock: security with a memory original ↗

28 May 2026

Peter Henlein's pomander, or the clock that fit in a hand original ↗

27 May 2026