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Bowers Museum: A Home for Orange County's Stories
A Santa Ana bequest became Bowers Museum, which opened on February 13, 1936. Its story begins with a house, a purpose, and a collection still to be assembled.
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The Vacuum That Waited Outside the Building
Hubert Cecil Booth filed a dust-extraction patent in 1901. His early machine makes a familiar cleaning question wonderfully visible: where does the dust go?
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The Library That Had to Keep Making Room
Oxford’s Bodleian reopened in 1602. Its expanding collection offers a thoughtful starting point for offices where papers have places and purposes.
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The Black Hole Image With a Planet of Work Behind It
The first black hole image was unveiled on April 10, 2019. The Event Horizon Telescope's result shows why a compelling picture needs a careful explanation.
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A Crockery Shop’s Sawdust Became a Sweeper Story
Melville Bissell’s 1876 patent began with an everyday business problem. The details of the device, and Anna Bissell’s role, make the history worth revisiting.
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Bell's Telephone Patent and the Object Everyone Reaches For
Alexander Graham Bell received his telephone patent on March 7, 1876. The experimental call followed three days later, long before the shared office phone felt ordinary.
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The Night a Television Studio Reached Millions of Living Rooms
The Beatles’ Ed Sullivan debut on February 9, 1964, was a carefully timed meeting of music and television. The frame made the room part of the event.
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Bakelite's Public Debut and the Many Lives of Plastic
Bakelite changed what manufacturers could mold. Its 1909 presentation also reminds us that a familiar material name can hide important differences.
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Back to the Future and the Art of Spotting a Change
Hill Valley's changing town square offers a playful lesson in making fair, useful comparisons of a workplace over time.
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Australopithecus sediba and the Puzzle of Mixed Features
The April 9, 2010 Science issue introduced Australopithecus sediba. Its combination of anatomical features made a simple place in the human family tree harder to assign.
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Ardi's Papers and the Value of Revising the Picture
The October 2, 2009 issue of Science brought detailed studies of Ardipithecus ramidus to readers. Years of research complicated a too-simple picture of early human evolution.
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Apollo 11 Landed in a Very Different Kind of Dust
The Moon's famous footprints came with a practical challenge: lunar regolith behaved very differently from familiar dirt.