• The long, strange history of Teflon...
  with miscellany
• The lost history of the electric car, and what it tells us about the future of transport
  with electric-vehicles
• The Movies
  "This archive site presents Movies material from a limited range of sources."
  with music
• The ocean vents where life on Earth likely began
  "In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began."
  with miscellany
• The Petters story
  "The first Petter Car was originally intended to be electric-powered, but there were such difficulties with the batteries, that electricity was abandoned as a power source. [...] They produced the first motor car with an internal combustion engine to be made in the United Kingdom..."
  with cars electric-vehicles
• The reason Zoom calls drain your energy
  with management-and-productivity
• The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707
  "The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707 (RPS) is a fully searchable database containing the proceedings of the Scottish parliament from the first surviving act of 1235 to the union of 1707."
  with glam history
• The Reg online standards converter
  Convert 'miles per hour' to '% of the maximum velocity of a sheep in a vacuum'. Or 'acres' to 'microWales'. Or...
  with humour
• The revolutionary concept of standard sizes only dates to the 1920s
  Ernst Neufert and 'Architects Data'.
  with miscellany
• The Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary
  with humour language-and-literature
• The road sign as design classic
  "The Design Museum has added a motorway sign to its collection. So is British road signage a design classic?"
  with art-and-design
• The Roads Both Taken
  (and 'phomo')
  with humour
• The royal order of adjectives [and ablaut reduplication]
  "It’s funny how native speakers of English have that sense of what sounds right and what doesn’t. Even though we can’t always explain why, we often know when there’s something wrong with the way a piece of text is written."
  with language-and-literature
• The science of recordkeeping systems : A realist perspective
  James Lappin Ph.D. thesis
  with records-management
• The Story of the ‘KELVIN’ Car
  Text of article from Veteran Car Magazine, December 2000.
  with cars
• The street names of Ayr
  Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, 2001. NLS catalogue record.
  with ayr
• The stunning early infographics and maps of the 1800s
  'Geological Diagrams' (1851), by John Emslie and James Reynolds.
  with data-visualisation
• The true size of ...
  ...countries, without distortions of projections
  with maps-and-mapping
• The U.S. Government once nuked a bunch of file cabinets
  Operation Teapot
  with records-management
• The Ultimate Guide to Identifying Fonts
  with typography

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