The jukebox turned listening to music into a performative act. With a single coin, listeners could share their musical taste with everyone in the place.

From excitement about its potential to revelations of its possible toxicity, Teflon has taken a wild ride through American science, manufacturing, and marketing.

Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.

Alan Turing and Christopher Strachey created a ground-breaking computer program that allowed them to express affection vicariously when so doing publicly, as gay men, was criminal.

As the tobacco and electrical industries demonstrate, US corporations have a history of sowing doubt for profit.

The 1969 Honeywell Kitchen Computer is a case study of early computer failures—or is it?

In the race between humans and machines, imagine a future in which everyone and everything wins.

Silicon Valley’s first high-tech enterprise, Federal Telegraph Co., provided communications for naval ships and radio stations at far-flung US imperial bases.

AI is everywhere. So naturally, we pulled together a syllabus of stories on the subject. Use these to inspire classroom discussion or educate your grandpa.

William Henry Fox Talbot’s obsession with protecting his pioneering photographic process doomed his reputation and reduced his legacy to historical footnote.