In a Milwaukee workshop in the 1870s, Christopher Latham Sholes spent years rearranging the keys of his mechanical Type-Writer so that commonly paired letters sat far apart, ensuring the metal typebars would swing from different directions and not jam mid-wordJuly 23, 2026
The Voyager Golden Record has a small sample of uranium electroplated onto its cover, put there so that whoever finds it can measure how far the metal has decayed and work out how long the record has been drifting, a built-in clock for a message engineered to last around a billion years. Saving Tips May 28, 2026 Two identical records left Earth in 1977, one bolted to each Voyager spacecraft. The disc is the part most people…
