How familiar are you with the roots of our modern technologies? Everything in our new time travel quiz revolves around innovations that have changed the world – this quiz is an exciting tour of the evolution of technology.

A wooden mouse, steam power, music boxes, and a vacuum cleaner motor – the history of the computer on its way to becoming an component of modern life is brimming with unusual inventions and turning points. Plus, with predictions that never came true.

Summer is the season for taking a break and for traveling – with opportunities to discover true wonders of innovative engineering presenting themselves along the way. Here are some examples.

Perfectly shaped steel spheres as rolling elements in bearings exhibit variances only in the micrometer range: a manufacturing technology feat whose invention dates back 140 years in 2023.

A look at the Nobel Prizes that have been awarded since 1901 shows how important teamwork is in the areas of research, development and science. In many cases, the work of two or three individuals is selected as the winner of the prestigious award.

Bicycles not only take people from A to B. Historically, they’ve reduced the dependency of women like hardly any other technical revolution. On World Bicycle Day on June 3, tomorrow looks back at how bicycle technology has improved the world.

95 years ago, a young man made aviation history. In May 1927, Charles A. Lindbergh was the first pilot to cross the Atlantic in a solo non-stop flight. His success formula was to save weight. He even chose not to have a radio and parachute on board.

Do you know to whom we owe the zipper, industrial paper production or ferroconcrete? Nine brief, exciting portraits of people without whose pioneering spirit today’s world would be a different one.

Billions of letters and parcels are sent every year. To do this, the deliverers rely on state-of-the-art machines and digital technologies. A look into the gears of global logistics chains.

Alternative drive concepts, new types of controls or self-driving vehicles – these are subjects that have been fueling the imagination of automotive engineers not only in our day and age.

Automaton, machine, robot, humanoid, android, cobot – no matter what names the artificial entertainers have been given, the foundations of this success story were laid as far back as 3,000 years ago.

Friction is a decelerator. Who’d be in a better position to know this than bearing specialist Schaeffler? Weight and aerodynamic drag hamper the urge of moving forward as well.

Practically all products today have their own identifier: a barcode. A beep and the checkout terminal knows the article’s name, its price, its tax rate and more, thanks to some black and white bars.

More than a hundred years ago, the moving assembly line changed the manufacturing process: an awesome success story – and one that could soon be ending.

Artificial intelligence, quantum physics and robotics will dramatically change our world this century. Some jobs will disappear while others will emerge. This is what such neo jobs might look like.

The working world has seen constant change in hundreds of thousands of years. By contrast, this cannot be said for a major reason why we work.

The future was never brighter and enthusiasm for technology never greater than during the brief period between the eve of the 20th century and the outbreak of the First World War.

No other industrialized country has evolved from a developing into a highly industrialized nation at the breathtaking pace that Korea has seen.

In the 17th century, the Netherlands had the biggest merchant fleet in the world. The rise of the small nation was accelerated by the efficient utilization of a renewable source of energy: wind.

Twelve machines that have decisively driven the development of the world.

You can rarely see them, practically never hear them but whenever something is moving in the world, chances are that a bearing is involved. A time journey tracing the history of hidden talents.

50,000 miles by car through the United States – in 1910, Dr. Charles G. Percival tackles a challenge that seemed an impossible feat in those days.

The development of humanity is inseparably tied to the amount of energy we’re able to generate and consume. A brief history of human energy consumption in five chapters.

For 130 years engineers have been investing enormous energy in the development of the automobile. Increasingly faster, safer, comfortable and efficient. 14 representative milestones on four wheels.

Electric mobility is not an invention of the new digital age. The early cars, as far back as 100 years ago, were running on electric power.