Tag: history
Awesome Infographic On The History Of Mobile Phones
Any of you old enough to remember the days before mobile phones? It was a dreadful time, when you had to pick up...
The Mother Of All Swiss-Army Tools Is Ancient
You're looking at a museum piece. Literally. The thing "was made in Solingen, Germany about 1880 for J. S. Holler & Co.’s...
Buy Your Own Boeing F-4 Phantom Ejection Seat
What on earth are you going to do with a non-functional McDonnell F-4 Phantom II two-seat twinjet fighter ejection seat? Who cares?! It's...
Is This The World’s Oldest Smart Ring?
This is a ring straight out of China's Qing Dynasty era. It's 1.2 centimetres (0.47in.) long, 0.7cm (0.28in.) wide, and happens to have a...
Histagram: History as It Happened on Instagram
You know something's really popular when people start making meant-to-go-viral galleries based on that certain something. In this case, it's Instagram and fictional posts...
A Really Long Picture About The Evolution Of Cell Phones
Phew... that's a lot of vertical pixels. 3,962 to be exact. And in that towering graphic you have Japanese communication company NTT...