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Factoid from the encyclopedia

Q. How did Henry Ford reduce the time needed to build a car from 12 hours and 8 minutes in 1908 to 1 hour and 33 minutes in 1914?
A. By creating the moving assembly line.

Podcasts

Why were there no wheeled vehicles in America before Columbus?

Why did Africans domesticate cattle and donkeys, but not zebras?

Bernie Carlson discusses "Technology in World History."

The kiwi fruit and globalization.

The paradox of the pyramids

Why Chinese coins have square holes

Technology and world history