IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Rutherford-Geiger alpha-particle ...

Research currently underway at MIT’s Distributed Robotic Laboratory (DRL) could lead to an innovative replicative manufacturing technique with the disruptive potential equal to that of 3D printing.

On 21 February 1804, the world's first ever railway journey ran 9 miles from the ironworks at Penydarren to the Merthyr-Cardiff Canal, South Wales, reaching speeds of nearly five miles an hour. The ...

The Liberty Bell replica outside the Montana Historical Society in Helena is one of 53 cast in France in 1950 and given to the United States government, according to a plaque attached to its base.

The Glasgow Herald reported an accident with the bicycle, concluding, "This invention will not supersede the railway."Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813 - 1878) was a blacksmith at Courthill Smithy, Keir, on ...

A day after members of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), led by committee president Manjinder Singh Sirsa, dismantled a replica of the Golden Temple that was coming up at the South ...

The inscription on this replica ring is written in the Runic alphabet, used by the Anglo-Saxons who lived in Britain between about AD 500 and 1100. The Runic alphabet was used for hundreds of years ...

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