quote [ English inventor Sir Henry Bessemer, renowned for his groundbreaking steel manufacturing process that still bears his name, once lamented, ?Few persons have suffered more severely than I have from sea sickness.? ]

quote [ Why 3DO?s true innovation wasn?t its early 3D hardware, but its business model?a model that perfectly matches its founder?s philosophy. ]

quote [ In 1908, a small Scottish whaling ship was wrecked in the Arctic waters between Greenland and Canada. The crew became trapped with a community of Inuit on a frozen archipelago. They had little food or shelter, and winter was approaching. Facing frostbite and starvation, a young seaman set off with his Inuit friends on a hundreds-of-miles journey across broken ice floes, vast glaciers, and berg-filled seas on an epic quest to find help. ]

quote [ Automata, best described as ?self-operating? machines, were known in the Ancient World. In 1900, divers recovered the remarkable Antikythera Mechanism ? an Ancient Greek model of the solar system, dating from circa 87 BC ? considered the oldest known example of an analogue computer operated by a complex system of bronze gears. ]

quote [ Lee Choon Chiek has spent four decades collecting 70,000 toys, Happy Meal boxes, Grimace costumes, and more. ]

quote [ Throwing people out of windows (or defenestrating them, as the Latin has it) is an act imbued with longstanding political significance in Prague. From the Hussite revolt in the late Middle Ages through the Thirty Years? War to modern instances of ?autodefenestration?, Thom Sliwowski finds a national shibboleth imbued with ritual efficacy. ]

quote [ In 1987, during a school trip to London, a watchmaker apprentice stumbled upon a rare find at an antique flea market. Concealed within a box filled with antiquated metal odds and ends there was an intriguing timepiece?a small copper sphere that could be opened to reveal a smaller hemisphere within. ]

quote [ After accidentally introducing invasive moths to North America, amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot turned his eyes to the skies and changed science. ]

quote [ Illustrations from a 1844 Thai manuscript for owned by Paul Revere's daughter1844" ]