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The tragic birth of FM radio (2006)
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The architect who became the king of bank robberies
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Behind the Ferrari and Lamborghini rivalry
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Harvey’s Casino Bomb
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From buggies to buses, the first Black-owned US automaker did what few dared
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Zodiac Killer: Code-breakers solve San Francisco killer's cipher
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Cybersyn and Allende’s Semi-Automated Luxury Socialism
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Origin Of Wireless Security: The Marconi Radio Hack Of 1903 (2017)
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We Could Have Had Electric Cars from the Beginning
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The day MIT won the Harvard-Yale game
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Another Reason to Learn Morse Code: Kidnapping
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The Man Who Picked Victorian London's Unpickable Lock
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1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’
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Claude Shannon at Bell Labs
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The Man Who Almost Never Succeeded (2012)
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Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know
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The Traitorous Eight
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Hardiman I Exoskeleton
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How Scams Worked in the 1800s
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Harvey's Casino Bomb
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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Project Cybersyn, a 1971-73 Chilean Experiment in Computer-Assisted Economy
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Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
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'Most Beautiful Woman' By Day, Inventor By Night
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Speed-Freak Football
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Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people of AD 6939
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A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims
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What Life Means to Einstein (1929) [pdf]
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The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)
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