This is the end of Robo-James’ Time Machine Week, but Flesh-James still has another week on vacation. So I’m going to set up next week’s robo-posts by setting the Time Machine back a mere few months: ...

Pinball games, with their flashing lights and unforgettable names, are the one thread that runs together my otherwise fragmentary ...

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found... How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s ...

From the Antikythera Mechanism to Tesla’s so-called earthquake machine, history is full of inventions that vanished too soon. These lost machines raise one question: how advanced were we, really?

STANFORD, California — Scholars in the U.S., Taiwan and China are buzzing about the discovery of an old typewriter, because the long-lost machine is part of the origin story of modern Chinese ...