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Past Science
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The Car That Runs on Firewood: Old Technology Cuba Is Reviving Out of Necessity
The idea caught my attention after seeing a video posted on YouTube by Reuters, showing

The Priest Who Hunted Supernovas
A supernova is basically a stellar explosion of massive proportions. Imagine if our sun exploded. Of course, in the

Who stole Einstein's brain and then walked it around in the trunk of his car?
Albert Einstein was undoubtedly one of the best known characters of the 20th century. A certain veneration for his

The old Texas Instruments Compact Computer 40 laptop
After writing the brief review of the EPSON HX-20: the first laptop ever, I decided

The First Laptop in History: EPSON HX-20.
Review of the first laptop in history, invented by EPSON. It had a printer included and a battery that gave it incredible autonomy.

Cuando nos lavábamos los dientes con pasta radioactiva y tomábamos Coca-Cola con cocaína
The title may sound bizarre, but throughout history humanity has used the most

Harvesting energy from radio waves (Energy harvesting). A technology that we already used more than a century ago.
A few days ago I came across a product that is being funded on Kickstarter (the most popular site

The almost unknown bet that changed the history of humanity.
If there is a turning point that changed the course of humanity, it was the revelation by

Mysteriously endless experiments. Can they work indefinitely? One of them has been in operation since the 19th century.
They will sound like two science fiction stories, but they are not. These are experiments or devices that, even

Who was the true inventor of the telephone? The controversy surrounding Graham Bell.
Today we all assume as an indisputable truth that Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone, but
How to Make a Vacuum Tube by Hand!
The other day a friend jokingly told me "why don't you make your own vacuum

Electric vehicles, an invention that we forget, because of oil, but they have existed since the 19th century.
I love collecting old books, and the more technical the better. Treatises of chemistry, anatomy, steam locomotives, electricity,