We’ve all heard the story about how if the railroads had understood they were in the transportation business rather than in the railroad business, they would have owned the airlines and the trucking companies. (Not necessarily great businesses to own, but you get my point.) How many times have you s ...
Reinventing Your Elevator Pitch We recently sent a couple of new employees out to an event at the Greater Washington Board of Trade designed to teach the basics of social networking — the physical, in person kind of social networking as opposed to the Twitter-kind. The employees were asked to come u ...
There was a time when you could buy buggy whips. You could also depend on the same print supplier to produce a project time after time after time. The print supplier was the buyer’s friend, confidante, and fishing, hunting or golfing buddy. The sour economy made obsolete those relationships. Then, t ...
Michael Giberson From Inventing Green, where WIRED writer Alexis Madrigal is blogging his research notes for a forthcoming book The History of Our Future, a discussion of how bicycling may have given the internal combustion engine an early leg up in its competition against steam and electric-powered ...
Hallo, Richard Trevithick has finally put his high pressure steam engine to good use. His latest mechanical marvel is a Carriage powered not by horse or Chinaman, but by the power of steam. No specifications are yet available but passengers report the ride is miserable. Trevithick claims this is an ...
