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CanalThe oldest known canals were not built for ships, but to feed the fields of Mesopotamia, where the first planned civil projects took place over four thousand…
RadioHeinrich Hertz first proved the existence of radio waves on the 11th of November 1886, yet he never imagined that his spark-gap transmitter would one day…
InfrastructureThe first thing to understand about infrastructure is that it is invisible until it fails. For most of human history, the systems that kept societies alive…
RoadThe world's oldest known paved road was constructed in Egypt some time between 2600 and 2200 BC, yet the concept of a road predates stone and mortar by…
BridgeThe Arkadiko Bridge in Greece, constructed around the 13th century BC, stands as the oldest surviving stone bridge in the world, yet it was built by a…