OMOnkar Mayekarinhetvabhas.com·Jul 7 · 12 min readThe Translator Who Learned the Words But Not the Language.In 1955, a Japanese electronics company called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was trying to rename itself for the American market. The company's founders — Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita — understood that their ex00
OMOnkar Mayekarinhetvabhas.com·Jul 6 · 11 min readThe Beautiful Building With No Fire Exits.On 25 May 1979, American Airlines Flight 191 departed Chicago O'Hare at 15:04. Thirty-one seconds after takeoff, the left engine separated from the wing. The aircraft rolled inverted and struck the gr00
OMOnkar Mayekarinhetvabhas.com·Jul 6 · 13 min readThe Locksmith Who Taught Everyone to Pick Locks.In the summer of 1974, a locksmith named Harry Miller opened a shop in a mid-sized American city and built a business that grew steadily for the next eleven years. He was good at his work. He trained 00
OMOnkar Mayekarinhetvabhas.com·Jul 3 · 11 min readThe Weather Forecaster Who Only Looks Out the Window.Vilhelm Bjerknes was a Norwegian physicist who believed, in 1904, that weather could be predicted mathematically. This was not a popular position. Meteorology in 1904 was almost entirely observational00
OMOnkar Mayekarinhetvabhas.com·Jul 1 · 10 min readThe Ambulance That Cried Wolf.On the afternoon of 14 August 2003, the largest blackout in North American history began with a software bug in an alarm system in Ohio. The Firstenergy control room had been receiving alarms all morn00
