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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers

By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025

You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?

Wishful thinking about cars

By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025

Donald Trump may be many things, but a good economist he is not. Accustomed to dictating terms to people he has worked with,

The history of safety glass

By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025

You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?

German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver

By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025

This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.

Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry

By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025

First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.

What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?

By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025

From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?

Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology

By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025

Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.

Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology

By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025

Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.

Company story – Quaker Oats

By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024

Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.

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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers

Wishful thinking about cars

The history of safety glass

German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver

Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry

What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?

Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology

Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology

Nintendo: A history spanning more than a century