In the early years of electrification, when electricity was beginning to shape the modern world, this new technology was being put to use in many more places than turning motors and providing lighting ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

Next time you eat a mushroom risotto, just know those fungi were making music before sliding down your gullet. It turns out mushrooms have an electromagnetic field that makes music, and you can hear ...

Not everything has been invented, far from it. There are many inventions that are, for the time being, only fiction, and which will see the light of day after years and decades of research. In some ...