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The kitchen faucet is perhaps the most-used, least-considered object in our homes. For the better part of a century, it has bee…

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In the summer of 1858, London was suffocating. A heatwave had baked the sewage festering in the River Thames, unleashing a mias…

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In the first century AD, in the bustling city of Alexandria, a spectacle of engineering unfolded. As a priest lit a fire on a g…

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In the 18th century, the French astronomer Charles Messier, frustrated in his hunt for comets, began to catalogue the persisten…

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In 1889, the English plumber William Feetham patented a device that would, in time, change the daily ritual of humanity. It was…

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In 1968, long before the world knew of Apple or Microsoft, a young computer scientist named Alan Kay at Xerox PARC sketched out…

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There's a classic philosophical puzzle known as the Ship of Theseus. If you replace every plank and sail of a ship over time, i…

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## The Porcelain Oracle: How the Smart Toilet Tells the Story of Human Hygiene, Health, and Our Future #### From Victorian s…

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In 1596, Sir John Harington, a godson to Queen Elizabeth I, engineered a device of unprecedented convenience: the flushing toil…

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In the summer of 1858, the city of London was held hostage by a smell. The Great Stink, as it came to be known, was the horrify…