Topic
inventions
- Ordinary Abundance
This simple narrative timeline walks you through the sheer number of inventions that we take for granted every single day. Not long ago, none of these things existed at all. A good reminder of the abundance and comfor…
- Lessons from the Invention of the Thermometer
This piece from Anton Howes gets at one of the key insights about how innovation works: it doesn't happen through sudden bursts of insight from thin air — it requires the combination of the right simmering ingredients…
- Inventing on Principle
I refreshed myself this evening on Bret Victor’s amazing talk from 2012, “Inventing on Principle.” {% include video-vimeo.html id="36579366" %} He’s been working on and promoting his ideas on interactive, responsive t…
- Why Did We Wait So Long for the Bicycle?
Roots of Progress has an interesting deep dive on why it took so long for a (relatively) simple invention of the bicycle, even in a time when the principles of a bicycle's components were well understood for a long ti…
