NASA’s Super Guppy Turbine opens its hinged nose 110 degrees to load cargo through the front, onto a hold 25 feet across and 111 feet long, according to NASA’s aircraft operations page. The 1961 ...

XREAL AURA, a pair of wired glasses that Google describes as the first wired XR glasses powered by its Android XR software, opened for orders in the US, Canada and Korea on 28 October 2026 with launch ...

In 1943 Richard James, a mechanical engineer at a Philadelphia shipyard, was working on springs to keep sensitive instruments steady on ships in rough seas when one fell from a shelf and walked down ...

Allseas’s Pioneering Spirit lifts entire offshore platform topsides of up to 60,000 tonnes in a single lift and jackets of up to 20,000 tonnes, according to the company’s vessel page. The same ship ...

Big Muskie, a machine owned by the Ohio Power Company near Chandlersville, Ohio, weighed 13,000 tons, stood over 20 stories high and lifted 325 tons of earth in each scoop, according to a July 1974 ...

On 20 March 1917 Gideon Sundback was granted US patent 1,219,881 for his separable fastener, the second version of his hookless fastener, which he called “Hookless Number 2”, according to the ...

In 1941 Swiss engineer George de Mestral came home from a hunting trip with burdock burrs stuck to his trousers and his dog’s fur, put them under a microscope and saw tiny hooks, according to Velcro’s ...

IBM engineer David Bradley wrote the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination into the original IBM PC in 1981 so the machine could be restarted without being switched off. He meant it for programmers and people ...

On 7 July 1928 the Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri sold its first loaf of sliced bread, cut by Otto Rohwedder’s machine and sold under the name Kleen Maid Sliced Bread, according ...

Anbernic’s RG DDS, a dual-screen clamshell handheld, is on pre-order at $284.99 for the 8GB model, according to the company’s product page. That price is for the version with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of ...