Form is temporary, function is permanent. The most important inventions are the ones that relate to the human condition, and they crop up over and over again. Below, Houston shares five key insights ...

We’ve all heard it a thousand times – they don’t make ’em like they used to. Sometimes, that’s for good reason, but there is a certain build quality to electronics of the mid-20th century that is hard ...

The next generation of calculators may come from the mind of Tim Wessman, an engineering student at Brigham Young University who won HP and Scholastic Inc.'s third Create-a-Calculator contest. Wessman ...

[Amen]’s Rockwell 920 calculator from the 70s was a very impressive piece of hardware for its time. It sported a 16-digit display, a printer, and it could run programs. It even had a magnetic card ...

The Macintosh 128K, released by Apple Computer in 1984, was equipped with System 1.0, the earliest version of the Mac OS. System 1.0 included a desktop calculator app, which is said to have been ...

SiC electronic components are a popular solution for the most demanding industrial, domestic, automotive power supply switching operations. Implementing such circuits require designers to follow a ...