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Charles Babbage

Booting Up a Computer Pioneer’s 200-Year-Old Design

Charles Babbage, the grandfather of the computer, envisioned a calculating machine that was never built, until now
April 02, 2009 | By Aleta George

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Forensic Science for Antiques

Revealing art secrets—and exposing forgeries
May 15, 2008 | By Dina Modianot-Fox

Beneath the Surface

A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer's staying power
May 2008 | By Robert M. Poole

Christina Galitsky

Hot Idea

Christina Galitsky's energy-efficient cookstove makes life a little easier for Darfur's refugees
October 2007 | By Neil Henry

US Coast Guard

The Pirate Hunters

As buccanneering is back with a vengeance, stepped-up law enforcement and high-tech tools work to help protect shipping on the high seas
August 2007 | By Paul Raffaele

Marine archaeologists rescued the shipwrecked H.L. Hunley (above, a computer rendering) in August 2000—more than 135 years after it sank during the Civil War.

Saving Our Shipwrecks

New technologies are aiding the search for one Civil War submarine, and the conservation of another
June 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

The 1,000-year-old Archimedes Palimpsest was taken apart, cleaned, stabilized and analyzed.

Reading Between the Lines

Scientists with high-tech tools are deciphering lost writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes
March 2007 | By Mary K. Miller

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900.

Old World, High Tech

An ancient Greek calendar was ahead of its time
December 2006 | By Eric Jaffe

The compass has a symbolic importance transcending its utility.

Useful Gadget

The legendary explorers carried destiny on their expedition. But they could not have fulfilled is without this unprepossessing device
October 2003 | By Owen Edwards


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