Nicholas Spada is one of the only scientists in the world using a nuclear x-ray process to study deadly nanoparticles in wildfire smoke. What he’s uncovered in California is a nightmare. The Quest to ...

When Allen Ginsberg gave his first public reading of his poem Howl in San Francisco in 1955, the American literary scene was undergoing a radical shift. More than ever before, writers were evocatively ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to EdTech and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Today, many teachers and students probably think nothing of copying a document.

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

When it comes to EDUCAUSE, I like to think of myself as something of a member of the loyal opposition. Often, I find myself wishing that EDUCAUSE could be more critical about educational technology, ...

__1876: __Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph. It will dominate the world of small-press-run publication for a century. Before the inkjet printer, before the laser printer, before the ...

Before the laser printer, before the Xerox, and before the carbon copy, there was the mimeograph machine. In 1876, Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) filed a United States patent for autographic printing by ...

When I was at the library recently, I reviewed a 1946 publication by an urban planning agency. The purple color of the text of the document jogged my memory. The pages had been printed on a ditto ...

Aug. 8, 1876 Thomas Edison receives a patent for the mimeograph, a breakthrough in low-cost printing. Aug. 9, 1974 Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th president of the United States, following Richard ...