This week, the esteemed British Pathé put its entire archive of historical film clips and newsreels online, a treasure trove of 85,000 clips amounting to 3,500 hours of footage from 1896 to 1976. Mixed in with some classic gems—interviews with survivors of the Titanic, newsreels from Hiroshima, Marilyn Monroe’s death, and so on—is a delightful collection of videos that show early inventors creating the technological wonders that shape modern society, and the ones today’s futurists are still trying to crack.

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